Lesson 4

• Artist


  A person with the talent and the skills to conceptualize and make creative works
• Artists


  • They have the desire and ability to envision, design, and fabricate the images, objects, and structures we all encounter, use, occupy, and enjoy every day of our lives
• Artist


  Dedicated only to the creative side, making visually pleasing work only for the enjoyment and appreciation of the viewer, but with no functional value
• Artisan


  A manual worker who makes items with his or her hands, and who through skill, experience and talent can create things of great beauty as well as being functional
• Examples of artisan or craftsperson's work

  • Quilts
  • Baskets
• Artisan or Craftsperson


  A skilled worker, but not the inventor of the original idea or form
• Medium


  The material used by an artist to express his/her feelings or thoughts
• Types of art mediums

  • Visual Arts
  • Auditory Arts
  • Both visual and auditory
• Visual Arts


  Mediums that can be seen and which occupy space
• Types of Visual Arts

  • Two-dimensional arts (2D)
  • Three-dimensional arts (3D)
• Two-dimensional arts (2D)


  Painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography
• Three-dimensional arts (3D)


  Sculpture, architecture, landscape, industrial designs and crafts like furniture
• Auditory Arts


  Mediums that can be heard and which are expressed in time, such as music
• Technique


  The manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the desired effect and the ability which he fulfills the technical requirements of his particular work of art
• Techniques related to paintings

  • Encaustic
  • Fresco Secco
  • Fresco
  • Egg Tempera
  • Mosaic
  • Oil Paint
  • Water Color
  • Acrylic
  • Collage
• Encaustic


  The medium for the powdered color is hot wax which is painted onto a wood surface with a brush
• Fresco Secco


  Pigments are usually mixed with water, although other substances might also be used, and applied to a dry plaster wall which has been wetted down with water
• Fresco


  Painting on freshly spread, moist plaster where the colors penetrate the wet plaster and combine chemically with it
• Egg Tempera


  The pigment is mixed with egg yolk or both the yolk and white of an egg, thinned with water and applied to a gesso ground
• Mosaic


  The design is created by small pieces of colored glass, stone, or ceramic (called Tesserae), embedded in wet mortar

  
• Oil Paint


  Powdered colors are mixed with a fine oil, usually linseed oil, and a solvent like turpentine is used to thin the colors
• Watercolor


  Powdered pigments are mixed with gum-arabic or a similar substance and applied to a ground, usually paper, with a soft brush
• Acrylic


  Artificial compounds developed in the twentieth century, with a water-based binder that dries to a glossy, permanent surface
• Collage


  Technique where photographs, news clippings or other objects are pasted on the painting surface and may be combined with painted areas. Used for associative, representational, formal or textural qualities.
• Drawing


  The most basic tools of the artist and designer, used to envision work in almost any material before execution
• Printmaking


  The process of making copies of an original drawing or graphic image
• The Five Major Types of Prints

  • Relief
  • Intaglio
  • Stencil
  • Woodcut
  • Engraving
• Relief prints


  Made by removing material from the matrix (surface the image has been carved into), which is then covered with ink or pigment and pressed onto paper
• Intaglio prints


  Made when a design is scratched into a matrix, usually a metal plate, with ink collected in the scratches and transferred to paper
• Stencil prints


  Made by passing inks through a porous fine mesh matrix
• Woodcut


  Printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain, one of the oldest methods of making prints from a relief surface
• Engraving


  The design is cut into metal with a graver or burin, creating a swelling tapering character of the engraved line
• Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan Award (GAMABA)


  Award that acknowledges folk and indigenous artists who remain true to their traditions, administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
• GAMABA awardees


  • Darhata Sawabi - Tausug weaver
  • Eduardo Mutuc - religious and secular artist
  • Haja Amina Appi - master mat weaver
  • Alonzo Saclag - Kalinga master of dance and performing arts
  • Federico Caballero - Sulod Bukidnon epic chanter
  • Uwang Ahadas - Yakan musician
  • Lang Dulay - Tboli traditional weaver
  • Salinta Monon - Tagbanua Bagobo traditional weaver
  • Ginaw Bilog - Hanunuo Mangyan poet
  • Masino Intaray - Palawan epic chanter and storyteller
• Performance art


  Interdisciplinary art form that brings together elements of time, space, bodies, and audiences, can be live or via media
• Major types of performing arts

  • Music
  • Opera
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Spoken words
• Music


  Form of art whose medium is silence and sound, with elements including rhythm, pitch, dynamics, timbre and texture
• Opera


  Form of performing arts where musicians and singers perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score, incorporating elements of spoken theatre
• Dance


  Form of performing arts referring to the art of moving the body rhythmically, usually in accordance with music, used for social interaction, expression, or in performance/spiritual settings
• Drama


  Mode of fiction represented in a performance, usually enacted by actors on a stage for an audience