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• Medium and technique in contemporary art have become more and more integrated, such that the works have crossed boundaries between art and science, and between mediums and techniques
• The works are also using contemporary mediums and techniques based on digital and electronic technology, as well as reformulated traditional methods
• Techniques and performance practices applied to contemporary art

  • Research on them
  • Identify the different techniques used
• Technique


  Skill or ability
• Technique, style, an artist's look is as individual as their signature
• An artist's technique does not have to stay the same their whole life, as they grow and change, so can their work
• Some artists have various techniques at the same time, which is generally looked down upon by galleries and collectors
• An artist should paint what and how they paint anyway they want at any given time
• Differences in an artist's paintings can be due to using different surfaces, which require handling the medium differently
• An oil painting would look different than a watercolor
• An artist doesn't need to find their technique, they already have it, it's like their signature
• An artist needs to recognize their style and then nurture it
• 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 their personal style
• The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique
• Traditional techniques used in Philippine arts

  • Wood carving
  • Molding
  • Fabric weaving
  • Basketry
• Wood carving


  • Any form of working wood with a tool into some sort of aesthetic object
• Molding


  • Shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay
• Fabric weaving


  • Interlacing two distinct sets of yarns or threads at right angles to form a fabric or cloth
• Basketry techniques


  • Coiling
  • Plaiting
  • Wickering
  • Twining

  
• There are several baskets that use combined raw materials
• Burnay is an unglazed clay pottery of Vigan made using the molding technique
• Abel or inabel is a fabric customarily made of cotton fiber turned into spools of beeswax-brushed yarn and woven in a handloom by the Ilocano
• Textiles in Mindanao are predominantly handwoven from abaca (musa textilis)
• T'nalak is a sacred cloth woven by the T'boli people in communities around Lake Sebu, Mindanao island