Techniques and Performance Practices CHARLENE MUTYA Teacher
What is medium? is defined as the material or substance from which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas.
Nature of the Art Form 1. SCULPTURE uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass. It is the branch of visual art that operates in three-dimensional because it occupies space and has a volume. One form of sculpture is POTTERY and the notable examples are Guillermo Tolentino’s OBLATION , BULUL woodcarvings from the Cordilleras, and carvings of saints in Christian churches by Santos. 3
2. Architecture uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete, and various building materials. It is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
3. Paintings use pigments like watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, and ink on a usually flat ground such as wood, canvas, paper, and stonewall used in cave paintings.
4. Printmaking uses ink normally on paper but can also be used on wood, metal plates, or silkscreens.
Prints are classified as two-dimensional because they include the surface or ground on which coloring substances are applied. However, while paintings are unique, prints can be reproduced in several pre-determined editions.
5. Music uses sounds and instruments (including the human voice)
6. Dance uses the body and its movements. Dance is often accompanied by music, but some dances do not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized. Dance can tell stories, but at other times, they convey abstract ideas that do not rely on a narrative .
8. Theater The artist integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design, performance elements, and script to enable the visual, musical, dance, and other aspects to come together as a whole work.
9. Photography and filmmaking use the camera to record the outside world. The filmmaker uses the cinematographic camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering, performance, and screenplay. In digital photography and film, the images can be assimilated into the computer, thus eliminating the need for celluloid or negatives, processing chemicals, or printing.
10. Writing a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction use words .
Based on medium, the arts can be classified as : Practical environmental Pictorial Narrative Dramatic musical
Musical arts include music, poetry (those that have perceptible rhythm and can be sung or danced to), and dance that is accompanied by music.
Practical arts have an immediate use for everyday and business life such as design, architecture, and furniture .
Pictorial works include painting, drawing, graphics, and stage and production design (lighting, dress, props, and set).
Dramatic they include drama, performance art, or music and dance.
Narrative If they are based on stories, the art forms, include drama, novel, fiction, nonfiction, music, and dance.
Combined arts such as design, mixed media, photography, film, video, performance art, theater productions, and installations .
What is technique?
Technique is how 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.
Stone in chiseled
Wood is carved
Clay is modeled and shape
Metal is cast
Thread is woven
Traditional Techniques
Wood Carving is an art practiced worldwide but very avidly in Southeast Asia where great pieces of woodwork have been crafted throughout the ages.
Silk-screen printing Is one of the most popular printing techniques and is most used by companies when printing designs onto products of different sizes and materials. It has been used for more than 100 years in the commercial and artistic sector and is mainly used for printing images and designs on T-shirts, Tote bags, paper, wood, ceramics and other materials.
Analogue photography refers to photography using an analog camera and film. A roll of film is loaded into the camera and the magic begins once you start clicking light interacts with the chemicals in the film and an image is recorded.
Filmmaking Film production is the process of making a film .
Contemporary Techniques
Digital photography Uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
Digital film making Is the norm these days, enabling filmmakers to blend art and digital media and speed up the process of filmmaking as well as be more creative and enterprising in the special effects department.
Music Production It is the process of creating a recorded music project. A record producer usually handles music production, managing every aspect.
Industrial design It is a combination of art and engineering; drawing skills, creativity, and technical knowledge is critical.
Robotics It is an interdisciplinary research area at the interface of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.
Artistic Skills and Techniques for Contemporary Art Creations
Collage is the technique of an art production used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Decollage is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away, or otherwise removing pieces of an original image.
Graffiti are writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public space.
Land art Earthwork or earth art 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, organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
Digital Art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process. Digital art is placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.
Mixed Media It refers to the artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. It refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. It refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media.