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Contemporary Arts
Learning Activity Sheets
Quarter 1-Week7
Critiques available materials and appropriate
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 CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ART AND THEIR REGIONS

Name: _________________________________ Grade Level: ______________

Section: _________________________________ Date: ____________________

LET US KNOW (ALAMIN MO)

Critiques available materials and appropriate techniques.CAR11/12TPP-0c-e-12

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by

the artist or other participants. It may be live, through documentation, spontaneously or
written, presented to a public in a Fine Arts context, traditionally interdisciplinary.
Performance art, also known as artistic action, has been developed through the years as a
genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in
20th century avant garde art.

LET US REVIEW (PAGBALIK-ARALAN MO)

In April 1992, the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or the National Living Treasures
Award was institutionalized through Republic Act No. 7355.

What is GAMABA?

The word GAMABA stands for GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN (

National Living Treasures). It is an award given to recognize the outstanding work of the
artists in the Philippines. The given award was established in 1992 through Republic Act No.
7355 until 2012.

Who are the GAMABA awardees? What are their qualifications?

The GAMABA awardees are the people who have adopts a program that will ensure
the transfer of their skills to others. They undertake measures to promote a genuine
appreciation of traditional craft and art and instill pride among our people about the skill of
the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA). Filipinos conferred as the forefront of the
practice, preservation, and promotion of the nation’s traditional folk arts.
( https://aboutphilippines.org/files/Gamaba-Awardees.pdf )

LET US STUDY (PAG-ARALAN MO)

In this lesson, you will be able to familiarize yourself with what materials and
techniques contemporary artists use locally. By learning about the materials and techniques,
you will be able to critique and justify the materials and techniques used by artists when
appreciating their works. Your knowledge in this chapter may also be applied in your own
artwork.

Media or Materials Used in Contemporary Art

Music
The media of music are classified into vocal (voices) and instrumental (musical instruments).
Vocal media, as the term suggests, pertain to male and female voices. Male voices have three
registers: bass (lowest), baritone (middle), and tenor (highest). Female voices also have three
registers: alto (lowest), mezzo soprano (middle), and soprano (highest).

On the other hand, instrumental media pertain to the different instruments played by
musicians. Most of these instruments form part in orchestra. Based on how their sounds are
produced, they are classified into string or stringed, wind, percussion, and keyboard
instruments.

Dance
Dance materials are those materials used for costumes, properties, and set design. Costumes
include the head gear, the upper garments, the lower garments, and the footwear. Hats, caps,
fez, bonnets, helmets, crowns, turbans, and hoods are among the head gear. Blouses, kimono,
kimono, baro’t saya, malong, patadyong, traje, gowns, and the like are garments for female
dancers, while shirts, camisa de chino, barong Tagalog, shorts, long pants, trousers, and the
like are the garments for male dancers.

Drama
Before when the camera, radio, and television were not yet invented, the stage was only
venue for dramatic purposes. With the advancement in technology, plays have been
performed in places other than the stage and presented days or months after the actor’s
performance. Nowadays, drama comes in various media. Aside from stage plays, radio plays,
television plays, and movies form part of people’s entertainment fare.

Literature
The medium of literature is language. A poet, fictionist, novelist, dramatist, or essayist makes
use of words to compose a poem, short story, novel, drama, or essay, respectively.

Painting
The choice of the medium is a crucial aspect in art production. Mediums differ not only in
their inherent qualities but also in the effects they produce. Luckily, painters have a variety of
mediums to choose from.
Oil and fresco used to be the favorite mediums of great painters in the second half of the last
millennium.
Oil painting is done with the use of ground pigments (from minerals, coal tar, vegetable
matter, etc) mixed with linseed oil and turpentine or thinner. Fresco (Italian for fresh)
painting is done with the use of earth pigments mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster
or glue which attaches the color to the surface like a wall. Watercolor painting is done with
the use of pigments mixed with water and applied to fine white paper.
Tempera painting is done with the use of ground pigments mixed with an albuminous or
colloidal vehicle (egg yolk, gum, glue or casein). Pastel painting is done with the use of
pastel colors closely resembling dry pigments bound to form crayons, which are directly
applied to the surface, oftentimes paper. Acrylic painting is done with the use of synthetic
paints called acrylics mixed with a vehicle capable of being thinned with water. Encaustic
painting is done with the use of hot wax as a vehicle to blind pigments to a wooden panel or
a wall.

Subjects as Materials for Painting

There are so many subjects that can be presented in painting. The prehistoric men painted
animals and other things of nature on walls of caves. Others hand fun doing landscapes,
seascapes, cityscapes, and the like.
Portraits are picture of men and women singly of collectively. Before the camera was
invented, there was no other means to know the face of a person, most especially a dead one,
but through a portrait. Thus, paintings of men’s faces, if not their entire bodies, became a hit.
Nowadays, charcoal is one of the mediums used in doing portraits. In photography, an art
allied to painting, portraits are among the favorite subjects.

Tool Used in Painting

Just like any worker, a painter makes use of several tools in completing his work. These
include the brush or brushes, the palette, the palette knife or spatula, and the easel.

Sculpture
There are more materials available for sculptors than for painters. Anything that can be used
to form a three-dimensional figure is a likely medium for sculpture. Wood, stone, paper,
cloth, glass, cement, and plastic are some of the common mediums used by sculptors. Other
permanent materials such as shells, amber, and brick and even ephemeral ones such as
feather, dough used in baking, sugar, bird, seed, leaves, ice or snow, and cake icing have
become sculptural materials.

Subjects Used as Materials in Sculpture

The subjects of sculpture range from living organisms (people, animals, and plants) to non-
living things, places, events, etc.

Architecture
The mediums used in architecture are classified into light and heavy materials. Light
materials include paper, nipa, bamboo, and other light wood. All, except paper, form part of
nipa huts and similar dwellings in tropical countries. The advantage of these materials is that
they allow for good ventilation, but their disadvantage is that they are not resistant to fire and
other natural elements.
 Traditional Techniques Applied to Contemporary Creation
Music
Music is classified into vocal music, instrumental music, and a combination of the two. Vocal
music is music produced by the voices of singers. The singing is done without the
accompaniment of musical instruments. Vocal music is rendered acapella. On the other hand,
instrumental music is music produced by musical instruments. It is exemplified by a pianist
doing a piano recital or an orchestra performing without a soloist or a group of singers. Vocal
music and instrumental music are combined to form mixed music or mixed ensemble.

Dance
Dances are classified in many ways. According to the number of performers, they are
performed alone, by a pair, or by a group. Based on subject or content, there are the war
dance, courtship dance, harvest dance, ritual dance, etc. According to the nature of the dance,
they may be imitative (tinikling, itik-itik, and maglalatik), religious, interpretative, and so
forth. Based on purpose, they are grouped into folk or ethnic, social or ballroom, and
spectacular or theatrical.

Drama
To create an outstanding drama, a playwright uses one or a combination of the following
dramatic techniques provided by an online source
(www.educationquizzes.com/gcse/english/dramatic-techniques/)

Confession. A character tells his true desires or feelings to another character.

Dramatic Irony. Similar to comedic irony, dramatic irony occurs when the audience or
character expects one event to happen, but the opposite happens or when something happens
as a result of a character trying to prevent that something from happening.
Music. Music sets the mood of a scene better than any other technique.
Narration. Narration done through voice-over or otherwise helps explain the multiple
dilemmas of a character, makes the audience laugh or cry, and directs or shapes the story to
convey certain emotions.
Surprise. Often used as a comedic technique, surprise easily catches a character or the
audience off guard.
Suspense. A cousin of surprise, suspense occurs when a character or the audience is
expecting something to happen.
Conflict. Conflict is a clash between people, values, or ideas.
Soliloquy. Soliloquy is a speech rendered by a character who thinks aloud rather than speaks
to any other character on stage.
Dialogue. Dialogue is a speech done by one character who speaks to another character on
stage.
Aside. An aside is a comment made by a character to the audience in a way that implies no
one on stage has heard it.
Tableau. A tableau is a still picture created on stage.
Theatrical secret. The audience knows something that one of more of the characters in a play
does not know.
Chorus. A group of actors speaks in unison, usually by commenting on the action of the play.
Disguise. A disguise is a technique by which a character deliberately appears to be someone
else.
Red herring. A red herring is employed by a writer who deliberately misleads or distracts the
audience in its expectations.

Literature
To make their writings effective, writers make use of literacy devices which include figures
of speech. The following online list contains 25 common literary techniques and figures of
speech.
(Source: https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/figure-of-speech)

Painting
To create the desired visual effect, a painter may employ any of the following techniques:
acrylic painting, action painting, aerial perspective, anamorphosis, camaieu, casein painting,
chiaroscuro, divisionism, easel painting, encaustic painting, foreshortening, fresco painting,
gouache, graffiti, grisaille, impasto, miniature painting, mural, oil painting, panel painting,
panorama, perspective, plein-air painting, sand painting, scroll painting, sfumato, sgraffito,
sotto in su, tachism, tempera painting, tenebrism, and tromp l’oeil.

Methods of Presenting the Subjects

Realism. Also termed naturalism. It is the method of presenting subjects as they appear in
real life.
Abstractionism. An abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather
than pictorial representation.
Distortion. It is presenting the subject in a misshaped form.
Mangling. It is presenting the subject with parts which are cut, lacerated, mutilated, or
hacked with repeated blows (Sanchez, Abad, and Jao, 2002)
Elongation. As the word suggests, elongation is presenting the subject in an elongated form.
Cubism. It is presenting the subject with the use of cubes and other geometric figures.
Abstract Expressionism. It is not an accurate description of the body of work created by
these artists. Indeed, the movement comprised many different painterly styles varying in both
technique and quality of expression.
Surrealism. It is beyond realism. It is presenting the subject as of the subject does not form
part of the real world but belongs to the world of dreams and fantasy.
Symbolism. It is presenting the subject symbolically, that is, the artist shows his subject as it
appears in real life, but he intends to let it represent something.
Fauvism. It is optimistic realism. It is representing the real-life subject with the use of bright
colors suggesting comfort, joy, and pleasure.
Dadaism. It is shocking realism. It Is presenting the real-life subject with the intention to
shock the audience through the exposition of the evils in society.
Expressionism. It is emotional realism. It is presenting the real-life subject with the intention
to express emotions, chaos, fear, violence, defeat, morbidity, and tragedy.
Impressionism. It is realism based on the artist’s impression. It is presenting the real-life
subject with emphasis on the impression left in the artist’s mind or perception.
Futurism. It is realism in the future. It is presenting a subject that relates not to the present,
but to the future.

Sculpture
Sculptures are found everywhere. In the Philippines, one can find the “Oblation” in the
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Jose Rizal’s monument in Luneta,
Andres Bonifacio’s monument in Liwasang Bonifacio, the Katipunan relief sculpture near
Manila City Hall, and the busts of the Filipino heroes in Rizal Park. These sculptures are
classified into round sculpture and relief sculpture. Also called a free-standing sculpture, a
round sculpture or sculpture in the round stands on its own and is capable of being viewed at
all sides. All, except the Katipunan relief sculpture, are examples of round sculpture.

Architecture
Primitive men used to live in caves primarily because they did not have the tools for building
houses and were not equipped with the knowledge of construction. When they began making
implements, they started constructing tree houses and similar dwelling places. Through the
years, the structures that house men have continuously improved. With the Industrial
Revolution and the introduction of steel and other construction materials, the mushrooming
of high-rise building is inevitable. Architects see to it that the basic types of architectural
construction form part of these sky-reach buildings. These are the post and lintel, the
cantilever, the arch, the truss, the vault, and the dome.
(Source: https://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/948.gif)
 FILIPINO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
(Source: https://steemit.com/traditional/@lapilipinas/philippines-traditional-music-
instrument)

FILIPINO DANCES

FILIPINO LITERATURE MATERIALS

FILIPINO PAINTING MATERIALS

FILIPINO SCULPTURAL MATERIALS

FILIPINO ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS

LET US PRACTICE (PAGSANAYAN MO)

ACTIVITY NO. 1
Activity No. 1: MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Complete the table by naming one artwork in your region under each of the genres and
identify the local materials and traditional techniques used for every artwork.
Region: ____

GENRE MATERIALS TECHNIQUES

MUSIC

DANCE

DRAMA

LITERATURE

PAINTING

SCULPTURE

ARCHITECTURE
 LET US REMEMBER (TANDAAN MO)

ACTIVITY NO. 2: CRITIQUE OF MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES

Critique the artwork named under each of the genres as to local materials and traditional
techniques used.

GENRE MATERIALS TECHNIQUES

Music – Francis Magalona’s
“Mga Kababayan”

Dance – Paolo Ballestero’s

air dance in Eat Bulaga’s
“Bulaga Pa More” Finals
Drama – the new
“Encantadia”
Literature – Lualhati
Bautista’s Bata, Bata, Pa’no
Ka Ginawa
Painting – Cubist painting

Sculpture – Our Lady of

EDSA

Architecture – A high-rise
building
 LET US APPRECIATE (ISAPUSO MO)

ACTIVITY NO. 3
Create your own artwork using PUNI/PALM/COCONUT LEAVES. It may be fashioned by
folding, plaiting, braiding, and simple weaving which may be functional as well as for
aesthetic uses. Share your thoughts of experience with your classmates and your teacher.
There will be a rubric for grading your artwork.

REFLECTION
Read and Analyze the following questions. Answer the questions briefly on the space
provided.
1. How does Contemporary Art affect society?

2. How does Contemporary Art reflect the modern world?

3.

4. How do you promote Contemporary Arts from the Region?

References
Magalona, Ethel et. Al., Philippine Contemporary Art, Contemporary Philippine Arts from
the Region, (Mindshapers Co., Inc. 2017) 101--142
https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/figure-of-speech)
https://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/948.gif
https://steemit.com/traditional/@lapilipinas/philippines-traditional-music-instrument
Key to answer:
Activity 1-2: All answers may vary.
Activity 3: Rubric for scoring an artwork.

Prepared:

CATHERINE G. FERNANDEZ
Secondary School Teacher II, ACSci-SHS

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