Techniques and Performance Practices Applied to Contemporary Arts PDF

**Techniques and Performance Practices Applied to Contemporary Arts** **Leslie de Chavez, \"Dubious Integrity\",** **Mixed Media, 2002** **\"Dubious Integrity\"**  The painting above uses mixed media painting technique that combines a variety of media in a single artwork. The paint mixes are mi...

**Techniques and Performance Practices Applied to Contemporary Arts** **Leslie de Chavez, \"Dubious Integrity\",** **Mixed Media, 2002** **\"Dubious Integrity\"**  The painting above uses mixed media painting technique that combines a variety of media in a single artwork. The paint mixes are mix watercolors with pastels or acrylic paints, or layering paper and wood into your artwork.  The technique is to blend paint washes, paint with credit card or give mixed media stencils a try. **'Mabining Mandirigma'** - libretto by Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson, music by Joed Balsamo, choreography by Denisa Reyes, set design by Toym Imao, direction by Chris Millado  This Filipino musical is expressive that both content and form is meaningful and communicative. It also focuses popular culture and history of the country that dealt with issues either by conceptualizing or criticizing. Ronald Ventura's **"The Blind Child"** in 2011 **Ronald Ventura** is a contemporary Filipino artist known for his dynamic melding of realism, cartoons, and graffiti. Portraying scenes of chaotic disarray, Ventura culls from science fiction, Western history, Asian mythology, Catholicism, and popular comic book characters, in producing his work. **Opera** - Ballet Philippines is collaborating with several artists---kinetic sculptor Gabriel Barredo, choreographer Redha Benteifour, composer Malek Lopez and librettists Yvette Tan and Erwin Romulo---to create \"Opera,\" a scripted assault on the senses. The production creates synergy between the artists and melds their art forms. In their performance, the dancers shape and bodily express their unified visions. **Local Materials Used as Applied to Contemporary Art and Traditional Techniques Applied to Contemporary Creation.** **MIXED MEDIA**  Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials. A work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a \"mixed media\" work.  New media art is a 21st Century catchall term used to define all that is related to the internet and the interplay between technology, images and sound. Improvisation in theater is the playing of dramatic scenes without written dialogue & with minimal or no predetermined dramatic activity.  Most or all of what is performed is created at the moment it is performed. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players as the improvisation unfolds in present time, without use of an already prepared, written script.  An important goal of improvisation is to enable the individual to develop spontaneity which is necessary in creating the illusion of reality.  The improvisation teacher must expose students to the theatrical environment through various games rather than lectures.  Forms of Improvisation Shortform -- short scenes constructed from predetermined game. It is an improvisational, non-exhibition, process centered form of drama in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect upon human experiences.  This process allows students to actively explore a subject or question through imaginative play that is facilitated by a leader and may involve a variety of improvisational activities.  These activities are not scripted or memorized, and they allow students to synthesize various educational concepts into a personally meaningful form. 1\. Collage  Are the techniques of an art production used in visual arts, where the artwork is made from on assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.  It may sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. 2\. Decollage  the opposite of collage: instead of an image is being built up all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating way or otherwise removing pieces of an original image. 3\. Graffiti  Writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public space.  It ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings.  It may express underlying social and political messages, and a whole genre of artistic expression is based spray paint graffiti styles. 4\. Land Art  Earth works 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 (bed rock, boulders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.  Sculpture is not placed in the landscape rather; the landscape is the means of their creation. Often earth moving equipment is involved. The works frequently exist in the open located well away from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions. 5\. Digital Arts  An artistic work or practice that is part of the creative or presentation process.  It is placed under the larger umbrella term, new media art.  After some resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as paintings, drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art, while new form such as net art. Digital installation art, and virtual reality have become recognized artistic practices.  More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art.  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 artist use many sources of electronic information and programs to create their work. 6\. Mixed Media  It refers to the artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.  When creating a painted or photograph work using mixed media, it is important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough dying time between the layers to ensure the final work will have structural integrity, if many different layers are imposed.  Many effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Found objects can be used in conjunction with the traditional artist to attain a wide range of self-expression. 7\. Print Making  The process of making artworks by painting, normally in paper.  Prints are created by transforming ink from matrix or through a prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material. **ARTISTIC SKILLS** With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity. Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows: With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity. Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows: With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity. Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows: With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity. Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows: With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity. Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas. The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows: 4\. The printmaker uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood, metal plates, or silk screen) that is keeping with a duplicating or reproducing process. Prints and paintings are further classified as "two-dimensional" arts, because they include the surface or ground on which coloring substances are applied. However, while paintings are unique and one-of-a kind, prints can be reproduced in several pre-determined editions. 5\. The musician uses sound and instruments (including human voice), while the dancers use the body. A T'boli chanter sings creation stories in a way that is different from a classical singer or pop music influenced by the Western music scale. 6\. The dancer uses he body and its movement. Dance is often accompanied by music, but there are dances that do not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized. Dance can tell stories, but the other times, they convey abstract ideas that do not rely on a narrative 7\. The theater 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. 8\. The photographer and filmmaker 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 print. 9\. The writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction uses words. The designer, the performance artist and installation artist combine use of the range or materials above. Here are some of art techniques used by artists. 1\. Collage -- is the technique of an art production used in the visual arts where the artwork is made from on assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Collage may sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. 2\. Decollage -- is the opposite of collage; instead of an image is being built up all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away or otherwise removing pieces of an original image. The French word "Decollage" in English means "Take-off" or "To become Unglued" or "To become unstuck". Example of decollage include cut-up technique. Similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been over another. 3\. Graffiti -- are writing 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 spray paint graffiti styles. 4\. Land Art -- earth works, 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 (bed rock, bolders, stones), organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal asphalt, or mineral pigments. 6\. Mixed Media -- It refers to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art. For example, work on canvas that combines paint, ink and collage. When creating a painted or photograph work using mixed media, it is important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough dying time between the layers to ensure the final work will have structural integrity, if many different layers are imposed. Many effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Found objects can be used in conjunction with the traditional artist to attain a wide range of self- expression. 7\. Print Making -- is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in the paper. Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix 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 of polymer for lithography; blocks of wood crafts and wood graving; and linoleum for linocuts. Screen made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used for the screen-printing process. 8\. Frottage -- is the technique of rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper which has been placed over an object or an image. The impression of the image can be created using leaves, woods, wire screen, or metal with embossed image or words. 9\. Decalcomania -- is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring a reversal of the image onto canvas or other flat materials. 10\. Decoupage -- is done by adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or transparent coating of varnish. TECHNIQUE Technique is the way 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 (modern, Neoclassic, etc.). The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique. Technique involves tools and technology, ranging from most traditional (for example carving, silkscreen, analog photography, and filmmaking) to the most contemporary (digital photography, digital filmmaking, music production, industrial design, and robotics).