Contemporary Philippine Arts Techniques Quiz

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

• The presentation discusses various artistic skills and techniques used in contemporary Philippine art.
• Artists rely on a support network, including family, friends, and the wider community, for their work.
• Artistic skill involves repeated practice and mastering techniques, becoming second nature to the artist.
• Technique encompasses the materials used and how these are used to create works of art.

Techniques and Skills

• Collage: An art technique that involves assembling different forms of materials to create a new whole. Materials include magazines, newspapers, ribbons, paints, etc., glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
• Decollage: The opposite of collage, decollage involves cutting pieces from an existing image or artwork, removing them to form a new image or design. This includes cut-up techniques and lacerated posters.
• Graffiti: This technique involves writing or drawing on surfaces like walls, often in a public space. Graffiti ranges from simple words to complex wall paintings and can be used to convey various social or political messages.
• Land Art: Art that is made using landscapes and natural materials, like soil, rocks, boulders, and organic elements like logs, branches, leaves. It inextricably links art and natural environments, including using materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
• Digital Art: Art that uses digital technology in creation or image presentation, including creating images completely on computers or scanning illustrations into computer programs. It may involve animation, 3D sculpture, video image manipulation, or even new forms like net art and combined art techniques.
• Mixed Media: Artworks that combine various artistic mediums such as paint, ink, and collage on canvas. Artists use layers carefully when creating mixed media projects to avoid compromising the structural integrity of the final piece. Mixed media artists can use various techniques to convey their unique interpretations, including using found objects and other mediums.
• Print Making: The process of producing an artwork through techniques using ink to create prints for paper or other material. Techniques include using metal plates typically made of copper or zinc, or polymers. There are also types of print making that utilize blocks of wood, linoleum and screen printing using silk or synthetic fabrics.
• Frottage: Rubbing crayons on paper over an object or image to reproduce its form. This technique can use various mediums such as leaves, wood, wire screens, and metal with embossed images or words.
• Decalcomania: Applying gouache to paper or glass, then transferring a reversed image onto a canvas or other flat surface. It's a technique that includes surrealist and modern art.
• Decoupage: Creating artwork by adhering cut-outs to paper or other surfaces and then applying a protective coating of varnish.

Learning Objectives for the Lesson

• Students will understand different art techniques, such as skill, technique, and the materials used for art production.
• Students will identify the specific techniques used by artists in different art forms.
• Students will apply artistic techniques and skills to create a new artwork.

Activities

• Activity 1: Observe: Students will analyze a provided image to develop detailed written observations about them.
• Activity 2: Graffiti Moves: Students will create a graffiti-style artwork using pencils, crayons, and bond paper within a set time frame.
• Other Activities: Creating eggshell mosaics, examples of trapunto painting and learning how to make them are outlined in the presentation.

Assessment Criteria

• Rubric: The presentation includes details about factors used for evaluating student work when it is completed, such as technique, creativity, craftsmanship, effort and determining a combined score for the total artwork.