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• Medium


  The material or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas.
• Sculpture medium

  • Metal
  • Wood
  • Stone
  • Clay
  • Glass
• Architecture medium


  • Wood
  • Bamboo
  • Bricks
  • Stone
  • Concrete
  • Various building materials
• Painting medium


  • Pigments (watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, ink etc.)
  • On a usually flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings)
• Prints medium


  • Ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood, metal plates, or silk screen)
• Music medium


  • Sound and instruments (including the human voice)
• Dance


  Uses the human body and its movements
• Theater


  Integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design, performance elements, and script to enable the visual, musical, dance
• Photography


  Uses the camera to record outside world
• Film


  Uses the cinematographic camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering, performance, and screen play
• Creative writing


  Can be a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction uses words
• Classification of arts based on the mediums
• Technique


  The way 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. The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique.
• Techniques


  • Carving
  • Silkscreen
  • Analog photography and filmmaking
  • Digital photography
  • Digital filmmaking
  • Music production
  • Industrial design
  • Robotics
• Art critique


  1. Description

  2. Analysis

  3. Interpretation

  4. Judgement
• Contemporary art


  Guides us to have reflection on our society and its issues on politics, economy, culture and the likes
• Contemporary artists


  • Use their masterpieces to comment on cultural, political, and global issues, including race, feminism, human rights, civil, rights, gender equality, wars, economic inequality, and global conflicts
• Contemporary artist


  • Emmanuel Garibay
• Hangarin (Aspiration/Goal), 2008


  A depiction of the passionate Filipino interest in sports, especially basketball. The game is part of daily life for young men in particular, who enjoy its physicality and community appeal. In a dynamic, well observed work, Garibay illustrates a group of youth jostling on a court set in a closed if not confined urban environment
• Abstract expressionism

  A style of art that has meant one of the main manifestations of the spirit of the 20th century. It emphasizes the expressions of the self and emotions. The colors are more violent, and the content has a symbolic tint
• Chromolithography

  A unique method for making multi-color prints. It is made using anywhere from eight to forty stones, one for each color. The chromist, who specialized in breaking down the colors needed to re-create the painting in ink, would document this process in a progressive proof book, so that the image could be recreated easily again if needed
• Surrealism


  Focused on tapping into the unconscious mind to release creativity. Surrealistic art is characterized by dream-like visuals, the use of symbolism, and collage images
• Fauvism


  Comprises the first of the expressions of contemporary art. Its name refers to a group of French painters who in 1905 filled the Paris autumn salon with works. The specific characteristics of Fauvism are aggression in the use of colors (basically primary, complementary along with garish tones) and their autonomy in relation to shapes
• Cubism


  A style of art which aims to show all the possible viewpoints of a person or an object all at once. It is called Cubism because the items represented in the artworks look like they are made out of cubes and other geometrical shapes
• Neoplasticism


  Based on two-dimensionality, use of straight lines and primary colors. Its objective is to divest itself of the particular to manifest the purity of art