Integrative Art As Applied To Contemporary Arts Reviewer
Integrative Art As Applied To Contemporary Arts Reviewer
Integrative Art As Applied To Contemporary Arts Reviewer
Integrated arts
- Practice refers to inter-disciplinary art, art research, development, production, presentation or artistic creation
of work that fully uses two or more art disciplines to create a work for a specific audience.
Art
- Is “human ingenuity in adapting natural things to man’s use” (Webster)
- Art comes from the word “ars” which means skill
- It is synonymous with skill, cunning, artifice, and craft, which all mean the faculty of what is devised
Skill
o Skill stresses technical knowledge and proficiency
Cunning
o Cunning suggest ingenuity and subtlety in devising, inventing, or executing.
Artifice
o Suggest mechanical skill especially in imitating things in nature
Craft
o May imply expertness in workmanship and guile in attaining one’s end.
1. Art is a Natural Human Behavior
2. Art is communication
3. Art is healing
4. Art tells our story
5. Art is a shared experience
Contemporary
- /kənˈtempəˌrerē/
- Synonymous to present, current, modern.
- Living or occurring at the same time
- Belonging to or occurring in the present.
Contemporary Art
- It is the art of today
- Produced by artist who is living in the 21st Century.
- It is not restricted to individual experience but it is reflective of the world we live in. Events in the world
having an effect to the Philippines.
- Artwork that is created by today’s contemporary artists and has world view, and its sensitive to changing
times.
- The term “contemporary art” refers to art made and produced by artists living today
- Today’s artists work in and respond to a global environment that is culturally diverse, technologically
advancing, and multifaceted.
- Working in a wide range of mediums, contemporary artists often reflect and comment on modern-day society.
- Contemporary art: is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century.
- Contemporary art: provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Contemporary artists: work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing
world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts and subjects that challenge
traditional boundaries and defy easy definition.
Characteristics of Philippine Contemporary Arts (by classification)
1. Dominant/Mainstream: foreign influenced, industry-driven, technology assisted, oriented for mass
consumption. (E.g Ogie Alcasid and Sarah Geronimo)
2. Alternative: usually social realist and/or advocacy oriented individuals. (E.g. Joey Ayala, Grace Nono,
Kidlat Tahimik)
3. Traditional/Indigenous: preserves local traditions. (E.g. GAMABA awardees- Samaon Sulaiman, Lang
Dulay)
Elements/Principles of Contemporary Art
1. Appropriation
- Existing artworks are appropriated to produce another artwork. Usage of prints, images, and icons to produce
another art form.
- Combines past from the present. Revives interests to existing forms of art.
2. Performance
- Performance evolved to “emphasize spontaneous elements of chance.” (Walker Art Center)
- Interpreting various human activities such as ordinary activities such as chores, routines and rituals, to
socially relevant themes such as poverty, commercialism and war.
3. Space
- Arts transforming space. For example: flash mobs, art installation in malls and parks.
- Site Specific forms: art form that is performed and positioned in a specific space such as public places.
4. Hybridity
- Usage of unconventional materials, mixing of unlikely materials to produce an artwork. For example: coffee
for painting, miniature sculptures using crayons.
5. Technology
- Usage of technology in the creation and dissemination of art works.
- Video phenomenon from MTV to Youtube. Recording performances, video posting, sharing, and live
streaming.
VISUAL ELEMENTS
1. Line: a line is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in
width, direction, and length. Lines often define the edges of a form. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal,
straight or curved, thick or thin.
- An element of art that is used to define shape, contours, and outlines, also to continuous mark made on a
surface with a pointed tool or implied by edges of shapes and forms.
Characteristics of a line are:
a) Width: thick, thin, tapering, uneven.
b) Length: long, short, continuous, broken
c) Direction: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curving, perpendicular, oblique, parallel, radial, zigzag.
d) Focus: sharp, blurry, fuzzy, choppy
e) Feeling: sharp, jagged, graceful, smooth.
Types of Line
f) Monochromatic: is where one color is used but in different values and intensity.
g) Warm colors: are on one side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of warmth for
example red, orange and yellow are the color of fire and feel warm.
h) Cool colors: are on the other side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of coolness for
example, blue, violet are the color of water and green is the color of cool grass.
4. Space
- Space is any conducive area that an artist provides for a particular purpose. Space includes the background,
foreground, and middle ground, and refers to the distance or area(s) around, between, and within things.
Categories of Space
Types of Perspective
Visual Elements
1) Texture
- Stimulates the senses of sight and touch and refers to the tactile quality of the surface of the art.
- Based on the perceived texture of the canvas or surface, which includes the application of the paint.
- Two types: Visual and Actual
Categories of Texture
a) Real Texture: actual texture of an object. Artist may create real texture in art to give visual interest or evoke
a feeling.
b) Implied Texture: where a piece of art is made to look like a certain texture. Like drawing a rough tree trunk
but it is actually smooth paper.
2) Value
- Relevant to the lightness or darkness of any color, but its importance is easy to visualize in a work with no
colors other than black, white, and grayscale.
Categories of Value
a) Tint: adding white to color paint to create lighter values such as pink or light blue.
b) Shade: adding black to paint to create dark values such as dark blue or dark red.
c) High-key: is where the picture is all light values.
d) Low-key: is where the picture is all dark values
e) Value Contrast: where light values are placed next to the dark values to create contrast or strong
differences
f) Value Scale: is a scale that shows the gradual change in value from its lightest value, to its darkest value
black.
3) Form
- Element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume; includes height, width and depth (cube, sphere,
pyramid, cylinder). May also be free flowing.
- Shading a circle in a certain manner can turn it into a sphere
- Form Types:
- Square – cube; rectangle – cylinder; triangle – cone; circle- sphere
Balance
Principles of Art
- What we use to organize the elements of art, or tools to make art
1. Balance
The way the elements are arranged
Keeping your design like a pattern
- A. Symmetrical Balance – the parts of an image are organized so that one side mirrors the other
- B. Asymmetrical Balance – when one side of a composition does not reflect the design of the other
2. Emphasis
The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most
3. Contrast
- A large difference between two things to create interest and tension
4. Rhythm and Movement
A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement
5. Pattern and Repetition
Repetition of a design
6. Unity
When all elements and principles work together to create a pleasing image
7. Variety
- The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work
8. Proportion
- The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity or degree ; SCALE
VISUAL ELEMENTS
LINE FORM
SHAPE
COLOR
SPACE
TEXTURE
VALUE