Con art

• Technique


  How the artist controls the medium to achieve the desired effect and communicate the desired concept or meaning according to his or her style
• Technique in the creation of arts


  • As the process or method that makes use of the materials on hand
  • As the skill of the artist to execute his or her work and produce the effect he or she wants to achieve
• Techniques applied to contemporary creation


  • Puni (Bulacan)
  • Singkaban (Malolos, Bulacan)
  • Saniculas (Pampanga)
  • Pabalat (San Miguel, Bulacan)
  • Taka (Paete, Laguna)
  • Pagbuburda (Taal, Batangas and Lunmban, Laguna)
• Straw Folding


  The straws are folded by rolling elongated sheets of wax-coated paper into cylindrical, hollow tubes
• Origami


  The art of paper folding that is associated with Japanese culture. Ori means "folding", and kami means "paper"
• Bamboo Art


  Using bamboo for decorations, it must undergo some processes such as cleaning, peeling, splitting, stripping, or weaving it. For more detailed designs, artists use incising, burning, carving, and dyeing.
• Polvoron Maker


  This kitchen tool can help you mold the powder polvoron into perfectly oval or round shapes
• Packaging


  The packaging design can be simple, colorful, and complex (decorated packaging)
• Paper Mache


  Using molds, paper pieces, or pulp are put together with glue or other adhesives
• Stitching


  Stitches are the basic elements of sewing, knitting, or embroidery whether by hand or machine
• Loom Bands


  These are also called rainbow looms which are plastic tools used to weave colorful rubber and plastic bands into decorative items such as bracelets and charms
• Nylon Bracelets


  A tough lightweight elastic synthetic polymer ornament hand hoop or chain worn on the wrist
• Minimalism


  • An artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leave only the essential. The artworks that usually use this technique use a well-selected material that is indispensable in art production.
• Found Objects


  • Taking something that people seem to find useless and using it uniquely to make an artwork. When people seem to think that something must be thrown away as junk, it is used to tell a story and create a diverse perspective that we are looking for.
• Large-Scale Art


  • An art that accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in the artwork. The art is created for public view.
• Diverse techniques for different art forms

  • Writing Technique
  • Musical Technique
  • Dance Technique
  • Choreography Technique
  • Acting Techniques
  • Cinematic Techniques
  • Literary Techniques
  • Techniques in Visual Designs
• Writing Technique


  The way a writer arranges words and thoughts to create moods and atmospheres or to evoke the feeling he or she wants to express
• Musical Technique


  The way the musician handles his or her instrument to interpret a musical composition and to express the feeling he or she wants to evoke
• Dance Technique


  The way of moving one's body to express an emotion or a desired state or condition
• Choreography Technique


  Involve human movement and form within the elements of time, space, and shape. It also involves energy in a nonverbal and emotional context.
• Planned Choreography


  The choreographer prescribes the movements forms in detail, giving little or no opportunity for the dancers to be creative
• Improvisation Choreography


  The choreographer provides freedom to dancers to interpret the general instructions. This is often referred to as "interpretative dancing".
• Traditional techniques still being used in choreography

  • Mirroring
  • Retrograde
  • Canon
  • Levels
  • Shadowing
  • Unison
• Acting Techniques


  Deal with the characterization of the human experience. It is used to create a mood and to heighten tension. It involves the coordination of facial expression, gesture, and speech to produce the emotion of feeling called for in the part.
• Cinematic Techniques


  In cinema or film, techniques vary from the screenplay, cinematography, special effects, sound effects, and editing.
• Literary Techniques


  Contemporary Filipino writers are a socially committed group. Their writing techniques emphasize fragmentation and paradox in the human experience, a feature of postmodernism, which results in disorientation or confusion (e.g., a lack of unifying center, no father image).
• Techniques in Visual Designs


  • Graffiti
  • Land Art
  • Collage
  • Mixed-media
  • Decollage
  • Digital Art
  • Print Making
• Graffiti


  Writings or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public space. Graffiti range from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti may express underlying social and political messages, and a whole genre of artistic expression is based on spray paint graffiti styles.
• Land Art


  Earthworks or Earth arts is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bedrock, boulders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
• Collage


  A technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface, various materials not normally associated with one another. This can include magazine images, newspaper clippings, photographs, movie tickets, basically anything and everything paper.
• Mixed-media


  Art involves mixing different creative mediums to create work that incorporates two or more art forms. For example, you can add sculpture to your painting, or draw on top of photography prints. Mixed media is all about breaking the boundaries between different art forms. Artists need to look at everything as a potential canvas.
• Decollage


  As a visual technique is the method whereby parts of glued-on posters are detached and removed, whereby the underlying layers appear and become part of the new image.
• Digital Art


  A term applied to contemporary art that uses the method of mass production or digital media. The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisement and by film-makers to produce visual effects. Both digital and traditional artists use many sources of electronic information and programs to create their work.
• Print Making


  Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix or through a prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material. Common types of matrices include metal plates, usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for engraving or etching; stone aluminum or polymer for lithography; blocks of wood crafts and wood engraving; and linoleum for linocuts. The screen made of silk or synthetic fabrics is used for the screen-printing process.
• Local materials are the resources that can be found readily in a large quantity at a particular location or area at a certain time. It could also be referred to as materials that can be used to produce a finished element.
• Materials applied in contemporary art


  • Rattan (also known as Manila)
  • Bamboo
  • Abaca
  • Coconut
  • Banana
  • Pandan
  • Buri
  • Nito
  • Tikog
  • Cogon
  • Sawali
  • Anahaw
  • Shells
  • Beads
  • Recycled materials
• Materials applied in contemporary art


  • Stone
  • Aluminum
  • Polymer for lithography
  • Blocks of wood for crafts and wood engraving
  • Linoleum for linocuts
  • Silk or synthetic fabrics for screen-printing
• Local materials


  Resources that can be found readily in a large quantity at a particular location or area at a certain time
• The Philippines is very rich in natural resources and other various materials that can be maximized in creating arts
• Rattan


  A wood vine (a relative of a southeast Asian palm) with a solid core that accepts paint and stain like wood, providing a long-lasting finish