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• The Philippines


  • Rich in natural resources
  • Filipinos use their creativity to use these resources to meet the needs of the community as well as to express their ideas, knowledge, feelings, and ways of life
• Contemporary art


  Artists of today use different available materials such as plastic straw, bottles, old newspaper, and other recyclable materials which seem not to be valued unless transformed into meaningful arts
• Technique


  The way the artist uses and manipulates the materials to express an idea or feeling through an art
• Techniques Used in Contemporary Arts


  • Minimalism
  • Found Objects
  • Large-Scale Art
• Minimalism


  An artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leaving only the essential. The artworks that usually use this technique use a well selected material
• Found Objects


  Taking something that people seem to find useless and use it in a unique way in order to make an artwork
• Large-Scale Art


  An art that accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork. This art is created for public view
• Techniques


  • Collage
  • Decalcomania
  • Decoupage
• Collage


  Made by adhering flat elements such as newspaper or magazine cut-outs, printed text, illustrations, photographs, cloth, string, etc.
• Decalcomania


  The process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of that image creating mirror images or unique patterns
• Decoupage


  Done by adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or more coats or transparent coating of varnish
• Classification of Art Forms according to Medium


  • Musical
  • Practical
  • Environmental
  • Pictorial Works
  • Narrative
• Musical


  Use of rhythms, sounds, instrument, human voice
• Practical


  Art with immediate use in daily life
• Environmental


  An art that occupies space
• Pictorial Works


  Uses shapes, pictures, graphics
• Narrative


  Based on story
• Musical Art Forms


  • music, poetry, song, dance, theatre artist
• Musical Art Media


  • musical instruments, traditional musical instruments made by local materials, body and movements, integration of stage, design, performance elements and script
• Practical Art Media


  • cement, paper, bamboo, wood, bricks, stone, concrete, metal, wood, stone, clay, glass
• Environmental Art Media


  • wires, junk, recycled materials
• Pictorial Works Art Media


  • camera, celluloids/negatives, processing chemicals prints
• Narrative Art Forms


  • drama, novel, music and dance
• Traditional Arts and their Application to Contemporary Arts


  • Puni (Bulacan) - Straw Folding

  Singkaban (Malolos, Bulacan) - Bamboo Art

  Saniculas (Pampanga) - Polvoron Molder

  Pabalat (San Miguel, Bulacan) - Packaging

  Taka (Paete, Laguna) - Paper Maché

  Pagbuburda (Taal, Batangas and Lumban, Laguna) - Stitching, Loom Bands, Nylon Bracelets