contemp

• 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.
• PAINTING

  A painting is an image (artwork) created using pigments (color) on a surface (ground) such as paper or canvas. The pigment may be in a wet form, such as paint, or a dry from, such as pastels.
• WEAVING

  The art of making cloth with yarn or thread is known as weaving. The pattern is made by pulling the threads together on a loom. The threads are locked at right angles to form the fabric. The horizontal threads are known as warp and the vertical threads are known as weft.
• SCULPTURE

  An art that operates in three dimensions, which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth.
• ARCHITECTURE

  The art and science of designing and engineering large structures and buildings. Architecture admissions requirements typically consider both artistic ability and mathematical proficiency.
• MUSIC

  An art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody and in most Western music, harmony.
• LITERATURE

  An art that shares a story and develops a theme for the audience. It is an art form of language and can be read or spoken.

  It is considered as an art because the author communicates ideas and experiences to the reader.
• DANCE

  Is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture.
• THEME – most basic element of a dance. It conveys the message of a dance.
• DESIGN – pattern of movement in time and space.
• MOVEMENT – the bodily actions of the dancer that include his steps.
• TECHNIQUE – the skill of movement executed by the dancer.
• MUSIC – the auditory background to which a dancer moves.
• COSTUME & BODY PARAPHERNALIA – properties worn by the dancer that help reflect the message, customs and beliefs.
• ELEMENTS OF DANCE

  THEME

  DESIGN

  MOVEMENT

  TECHNIQUE

  MUSIC

  COSTUME & BODY PARAPHERNALIA

  CHOREOGRAPHY

  SCENERY
• CHOREOGRAPHY – the figures and steps in dancing that enable the dancers to perform in an organized manner.
• SCENERY – the background or setting where the dance is performed to make it more realistic and enriching.
• REALISM

  The first style is realism in which the subject is done the way it actually looks. An example of this is the painting of Araceli Dans, the Bridal White.
• DISTORTION

  The artist uses his or her imagination and alters the subject according to his or her desire. A stylized work is a form of distortion like Norma Belleza’s painting, the Fiesta.
• ABSTRACTION

  The artist breaks a part a subject and rearranges it in a different manner. The paintings of the National Artist Vicente Manansala belong to this category.
• NON-OBJECTIVISM

  In here, there is no subject at all-just an interplay of pure elements, like line, shape or color, and so on. A good example of this is the painting of Roberto Chabet which is on Acrylic paper.
• THE SUBJECT OF ART

  Realism

  Distortion

  Abstraction

  Non-Objectivism
• DESIGN is 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.
• HARMONY

  This refers to the wholeness of the design, the pleasing arrangement of parts, and the agreement between parts of a composition, resulting in a united whole.
• VARIETY

  It pertains to the assortment or diversity of a work of art.
• RHYTHM

  It is the regular, repeated pattern in the elements of art. It is a flow, or feeling of movement, achieved by the distribution of visual units in time.
• PROPORTION

  Elements in a work of art should have a relationship with one another. This relationship is called proportion.
• BALANCE

  Pertains to the even distribution of weight. It is the principle that deals with equality.
• MOVEMENT

  This is a fundamental principle in choreography and the theatre arts.
• PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

  Harmony

  Variety

  Rhythm

  Proportion

  Balance

  Movement
• CONTEMPORARY ART

  Is an art produced by the artist today. It is not restricted to individual experience but it is reflective of the world we live in.

  The artwork that is created by today’s contemporary artist has a world view and sensitive to changing times.
• APPROPRIATION.

  It is the process of making new content by taking from one another source pre-existing image - books on art history, ads, the media - and incorporating or combining it with new ones.
• APPROPRIATION. “To appropriate is to borrow”. It 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
• MARCEL DUCHAMP - The first artist to successfully demonstrates 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.