contemp 1

• Elements and principles of art and design

  • Appropriation
  • Performance
  • Space
  • Hybridity
  • Technology
• Appropriation


  Existing artworks are appropriated to produce another artwork. Usage of prints, images, and icons to produce another art form. Combines past from the present. Revives interests to existing forms of art.
• Performance


  Performance evolved to "emphasize spontaneous elements of chance". Interpreting various human activities such as ordinary activities such as chores, routines and rituals, to socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism and war.
• Space


  Arts transforming space. For example, flash mobs, art installations in malls and parks. Art form that is performed and positioned in a specific space such as public places.
• Hybridity


  Usage of unconventional materials, mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork. For example, coffee for painting; miniature sculptures using crayons.
• Technology


  Usage of technology in the creation and dissemination of art works. Video phenomenon from MTV to YouTube. Recording performances, video posting, sharing, live streaming.
• Contemporary art forms

  • Painting
  • Weaving
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Dance
• Elements of dance

  • Theme
  • Design
  • Movement
  • Technique
  • Music
  • Costume & Body Paraphernalia
  • Choreography
  • Scenery
• The subject of art

  • Realism
  • Distortion
  • Abstraction
  • Non-objectivism
• Principles of design

  • Harmony
  • Variety
  • Rhythm
  • Proportion
  • Balance
  • Movement
• Design


  The overall structure of an art form. It is a plan for order. It is the means by which artist indicate and demonstrate the ideas and feelings they wish to convey.
• The Wealth of Nations was written in 1776
• Contemporary art


  Art produced by the artist today, not restricted to individual experience but reflective of the world we live in
• Contemporary art


  • Artwork created by today's contemporary artists has a world view and is sensitive to changing times
  • Contemporary artists frequently go beyond elements and values, using new ideas and techniques to establish meaning in today's world
  • Artists use phrases, pick, organize and combine lines, forms, colors and textures in several ways to express themselves and build meaning
• Appropriation


  The process of making new content by taking from one another source pre-existing image and incorporating or combining it with new ones
• "To appropriate is to borrow"
• Appropriation


  Refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing components inside a modern work. Experts can as well compare differing pictures or objects, layer them with other pictures, break them into parts or contextualize them.
• Appropriation

  • Marcel Duchamp - The first artist to successfully demonstrate forms of appropriation within his work. He devised the concept of the "readymade", which essentially involved an item being chosen by the artist, signed by the artist and repositioned into a gallery context.
• Performance art


  Art which regularly increases drama, often taking action and development to extremes of expression and continuity that are not allowed within the theater. It interprets various human activities such as ordinary activities such as chores, routines and rituals, to socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism and war.
• Performance art


  Art activities that are presented to a live audience and can combine music, dance, poetry, theater, visual art and video. Performative art describes the exploration by artists of the processes, movements and actions they use to create art.
• Space


  An art transforming space, for example the flash mobs and art installations in malls and parks. It refers to the distance or areas surrounding within and within the components of an item.
• Space


  • It can be either positive or negative, open or closed, shallow or deep and two or three-dimensional. It is not clearly shown in a piece, but it is an illusion. It is considered as the breath of art. It provides the audience a guide for the presentation of an artwork.
• Positive space


  Art historians use the term to refer to the subject of the piece itself.
• Negative space


  Art historians use the term to refer to the empty spaces the artist has created around, between and within the subjects.
• Hybridity


  The usage of unconventional materials and mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork. This hybridity in art practice is about transcendence, beyond the visual logic of the digital or material.
• Technology art


  Refers to the use of mass production and the manipulation of the virtual world, its tools and programs. The use of technology in the creation and dissemination of art works.
• Technology art


  • Placing the term under a vast umbrella known as new media, computer production, video art, computer-based installations and later the Internet and Post Internet art and exploration of the virtual reality became recognized as artistic practices.
  • Designers and artists for the production of commercial pieces or for more elaborate and conceptual works implement many different computer programs, such as 3D modeling, Illustrator or Photoshop.
• Medium


  The material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. It also defines the nature of the art form.
• Themes


  What connect subjects to their social milieu, determined through title, artist, medium, dimension, year, texts, images, allusions and symbols
• Technique


  The manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect and communicate the desired concept or meaning, according to his or her personal style.
• Subject Matter


  What the artwork is about, can be representational/figurative or abstract/non-representational
• The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique. For example, stone is chiseled, wood is carved, clay is modeled and shaped, metal is cast and thread is woven.
• Elements of Art

  • Line
  • Color
  • Value
  • Texture
  • Shape
  • Composition in Space
  • Movement
• Technique involves tools and technology, ranging from the most traditional (Example: carving, silkscreen, analog photography, and filmmaking) to the most contemporary (Example: digital photography,digital filmmaking, music production, industrial design and robotics).
• Line


  • Associated with the body's axis, directions, actions, and quality
• Sculptor


  • Uses metals, wood, stone, clay and glass. Sculptures fall within the category of "three-dimensional" arts because they occupy space and have volume. Pottery is a form of sculpture. For examples, nudes or figure (Oblation), ritual objects (Bulul woodcarving-Cordillera), santos or carvings of saints in Christian churches.
• Architect


  • Uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various building materials. Buildings are also called "three-dimensional" arts because like sculpture, they occupy space and have volume. However, architecture has the added element of time, since we move into the structures.
• Color


  • Associated with experiences of cold/warmth, light, cycles of night/day, primary/secondary/complementary colors
• Value


  • Gradations of tone from light to dark
• Painter


  • Uses pigments (e.g., watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint,acrylic, ink, etc.) on a usually flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings).