Q2: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and Performance Flashcards
An art is always created with a ________________.
technique
The way the artist uses and manipulates the materials to express an idea or feeling through an art.
technique
This is a popular Bulakenyo’s way of decorating using leaf fronds folding which has a Malayan origin.
Puni
Bulacan
In this art, the straws are folded by rolling elongated sheets of wax coated paper into cylindrical, hollow tubes.
straw folding
Origami is from ori meaning ____________, and kami means ____________.
- folding
- paper
The art of paper folding that is associated to Japanese culture.
origami
It is a decorated bamboo arch to welcome signage of a town, city or village in the country.
Singkaban
Malolos, Bulacan
it undergoes some processes such as cleaning and cutting, peeling, splitting, stripping or weaving it. For more detailed designs, artists use incising, burning, carving, and dyeing.
bamboo art
Cookies made with imprint of San Nicolas de Tolentino, the miracle healer according to Pampanga’s local legend.
Saniculas
Pampanga
This kitchen tool can help you mold the powder for polvoron into perfectly oval or round shapes.
polvoron molder
The art of making pastillas wrappers which has transformed in recent years from being a local, folk tradition into a popular art.
Pabalat
San Miguel, Bulacan
An application of Pabalat to contemporary arts in which the design can be simple and straight forward, or colorful and complex.
packaging
It refers to the paper maché using carved wooded sculpture used as a mold.
Taka
Paete, Laguna
Molds, paper pieces or pulp are put together with a glue or other adhesives.
paper maché
They are characterized by fine design with delicate, embossed, durable and colorful patterns.
Pagbuburda
Taal, Batangas and Lumban, Laguna
The basic elements of sewing, knitting or embroidery whether by hand or machine.
stitching
These are also called as rainbow looms which are a plastic tool used to weave colorful rubber and plastic bands into decorative items such as bracelets and charms.
loom bands
A tough light weight elastic synthetic polymer ornament band hoop or chain worn on the wrist.
nylon bracelets
Three Common Techniques in Contemporary Arts
- minimalism
- found objects
- large-scale art
This is an artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leaving only the essential.
minimalism
a Filipino modern artist best known for his minimalist, geometric, and abstract styles of art and his animated paintings of circus performers and musicians as well as his revered cityscapes series.
Arturo Luz
This means taking something that people seem to find useless and use it in a unique way in order to make an artwork.
found objects
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.
found objects
This is an art that accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork.
large-scale art