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Unit 6: Different

Contemporary Art
Techniques and
Performance Practices

Traditional Techniques Applied to


Contemporary Arts Creation
Traditional Techniques Applied to
Contemporary Arts Creation
What is Medium?
 It 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:
 The sculptor uses metal, wood, stone, clay,
and glass. Sculptures fall within the category
of “three-dimensional” arts because they
occupy space and have volume. Pottery is a
form of sculpture.
 The architect uses wood, bamboo, bricks,
stone, concrete and various building
materials.
 The painter uses pigments (e.g., watercolor,
oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic, ink, etc.)
on a usually flat ground (wood, canvas,
paper, stone wall such as in cave paintings).
The medium also defines the
nature of the art form as follows:
 The printmaker uses ink printed or transferred on a
surface (wood, metal plates, or silk screen) that is in
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.
 The musician uses sound and instruments (including
the human voice).
 The dancer uses the body and its movements.
 The theatre 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.
The medium also defines the
nature of the art form as follows:
 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.
 The writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction and
fiction uses words.
 The designer, the performance artist,
and the installation artist combine use of
the range of materials above.
Art Classification based on
Medium

 Musical Arts- have perceptible rhythm and


can be sung or danced to), and dance that is
accompanied by music
 Practical Arts- have immediate use for
everyday and business life such as design,
architecture, and furniture.
 Environmental Arts- occupy space and
change in its meaning and function
depending on their categories including
architecture, sculpture, and site-specific
works such as installations and public art
Art Classification based on
Medium
 Pictorial Works- include painting,
drawing, graphics, and stage and
production design.
 Dramatic Works- these are staged and
performed; they include drama,
performance art, or music and dance.
 Narrative Works- they are based from
stories; they include drama, novel, fiction,
etc.
What is Technique?
 It is the manner in which 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.
How is Art experienced and
consumed?
 Art is considered an “artifact,” when it is
directly experienced and perceived.
 It can be spatial and static or unmoving
(e.g., a painting or building, or a novel) or
time-based and in motion (e.g., a live
theater production, mobile sculpture).
 “Recorded” or documented artwork-
When we experience a work indirectly or
through a medium like film or video.
Time-based Artifact/Performance
 We receive or perceive it live or directly in
real time
Examples: live plays, live performance art,
and installation

 It is recorded and we watch it in real time


but not at the site of production
Examples: documented play, film, exhibit, or
an ad generally watched through an electronic
medium
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