Second Quarter: Different Contemporary Art Techniques

and Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts

Production

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INTRODUCTION
The subject covers various contemporary arts practices of
the region where the school is located. It aims to provide
students with an appreciation with a broad range of styles in
the various disciplines with consideration on their elements
and principles and engage them to an integrative approach in
studying arts. Through this subject, students will broaden
and acquire the necessary creative tools that open
opportunities in pursuing their individual career goals and
aspirations.

Objectives:
➢ researches on techniques and performance practices
applied to contemporary arts CAR11/12TPP-0c -e-10
➢ discusses local materials used in creating art
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➢ critiques available materials and appropriate techniques
CAR11/12TPP-0c -e-12
➢ explicates the use of materials and the application of
techniques CAR11/12TPP-0c -e-13
➢ conceptualizes contemporary art based on techniques
and performance practices in their locality CAR11/12AP-
0f -h-14
➢ applies artistic skills and techniques in the process of
creation CAR11/12AP-0f -h-15
➢ incorporates contemporary characteristics to one’s
creation with attention to detail CAR11/12AP-0f -h-16
➢ creates the intended final product using appropriate
materials for the best possible output CAR11/12AP-0f -h-
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Module 1: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and
Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts Production

Lesson 1: CONTEMPORARY ART TECHNIQUES AND

PERFORMANCE PRACTICES & LOCAL MATERIALS USED
IN CREATING ART

With the broadening of the art world, many people are

getting confused about what qualifies as an artistic skill.
Artistic skill are abilities that possessed by artist who operate
within a fine art capacity. A mediums is defined as the material
or the substance out of which a work is made.

Nature of the art form

1. Sculptor
• Sculptures fall within the category of “three-dimensional”
arts because they occupy space and have volume.
• Metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass
• Pottery is a form of sculpture
• Ritual objects such as bulul wood carvings in the
Cordillera
• Guillermo Tolentino’s Oblation
2. Architect
• Uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various
building materials
• Buildings are also called “three-dimensional.”
3. 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 cave paintings)
4. Printmaker
• Prints and paintings are further classified as “two-
dimensional” arts, because they include the surface or
ground on which coloring substances are applied
• Uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood, metal
plates, or silk screen)

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5. 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. Dancer
• Dance is often accompanied by music
• Dance can tell stories, but the other times, they convey
abstract ideas that do not rely on a narrative
• Uses the body and its movement
7. 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.
8. 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. Writer
• Novel, poetry, non-fiction, and fiction uses words
• The designer, the performance artist and installation
artist combine use of the range or materials above

Techniques
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/her personal style (modern, neoclassic, etc.). Technique
involves tools and technology, ranging from most traditional
(for example carving, silkscreen, analog photography, and
filmmaking) to the most contemporary (digital photography,

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digital filmmaking, music production, industrial design, and
robotics).

Art Techniques
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.
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.
Graffiti- are writing or drawings that have been scribed,
scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface,
often in a public space.
Land art- earth works, or earth arts is an art movement
in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably
linked.
Digital art- is an artistic work or practice that uses
digital technology as an essential part of the creative or
presentation process
Mixed Media- it refers to a work of visual art that
combines various traditionally distinct visual art.
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.
Frottage- is the technique of rubbing with crayon on a
piece of paper which has been placed over an object or an
image.
Decalcomania- is the process of applying gouache to
paper or glass then transferring a reversal of the image
onto canvas or other flat materials
Decophage- is done by adhering cut-outs of paper and
then coating these with one or transparent coating of
varnish.
Eggshell mosaic- is an artistic technique that uses tiny
parts of eggshell to create a whole image or object.
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Trapunto Painting- canvases are padded, sewn, and
often filled with sequins, beads, shell, buttons, tiny
mirrors, bits of glass, rickrack, swatches of precious
textiles and other things.

There are new techniques that define an art movement. For

contemporary arts, the following are a few of these techniques:

1. Minimalism. One of the most important and influential art

styles of the 1960s, Minimalism identifies works of art most
often comprised of geometric shapes in simple arrangements
and lacking any decorative or dynamic flourishes. These
geometric shapes characterized the elemental or “bare bones”
forms of art, which, according to critics, represented the
culmination of modern art's progression toward the most
simplified form of abstract art possible. It is a movement in
various forms or art and design, especially visual art and
music, where the work is set out to expose the essence,
essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-
essential forms, features or concepts. It is characterized by
simplicity.
2. Cubism. It was a truly revolutionary style of modern art
developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the
first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the
20th century in response to a world that was changing with
unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to
revitalize the tired traditions of Western art which they
believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged
conventional forms of representation, such as perspective,
which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Their aim was
to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern
age.
3. Social Realism. It is the realistic depiction in art of
contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment.
4. Found objects. They originate from the French objet
trouve, describing art created from undisguised, but often
modified, objects or products that are not normally considered
materials from which art is made, often because they already
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have a non-art function. In modern art, the term "found
object" is used to describe an object, found by an artist, which
- with minimal modification - is then presented as a work of
art. The idea is, that the artist believes that the discovered
object possesses a certain aesthetic quality - stemming from
its appearance, social or personal history - and therefore
displays it for the appreciation of others.
Typical "found objects" include natural materials like
sand, earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood,
a human skull; or man-made items such as newspaper
cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap
metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle
handlebars, and so on.
5. Large scale art – artists have produced works that play
with scale. Juan Luna’s Spoliarium displayed in the National
Museum is an example.
6. Digital application - It comes with augmented reality
technology and transforms Filipino digital artworks into
immersive experiences.

Lesson 2: LOCAL MATERIALS USED IN CREATING ART

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Activity No. 1. Identify what is being asked for.

___________________________1. It is a native reed plant used as

a raw material for mat weaving.

___________________________2. It is done by adhering cut-outs

of paper and then coating these with one or transparent
coating of varnish.

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___________________________3. It is defined as the material or
the substance out of which a work is made.

___________________________4. It is the way artists use and

manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect, and
communicate the desired concept, or meaning, according to
his/her personal style.

___________________________5. It is the process of making

artworks by painting, normally in the paper.

___________________________6. It is an artistic work or practice

that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative
or presentation process.

___________________________7. It identifies works of art, often

comprised of geometric shapes in simple arrangements and
lacking any decorative or dynamic flourishes.

___________________________8. These are writing or drawings

that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall
or other surface, often in a public space.

___________________________9. It is the technique of rubbing

with crayon on a piece of paper which has been placed over
an object or an image.

___________________________10. It is an artistic technique that

uses tiny parts of eggshell to create a whole image or object.

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Module 2: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and
Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts Production
Lesson 1: FESTIVALS AND FIESTAS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Ati-atihan Festival
- The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held in honor of the
Santo Niño held annually in January concluding on third
Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.
- Celebrants paint their faces with black soot and wear
bright, outlandish costumes as they dance in revelry
during the last three days of this two week-long festival.
Sinulog
- The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo
Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu. It is a dance
ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people’s pagan
origin, and their acceptance of Christianity.
- The festival features a street parade with participants in
bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums,
trumpets, and native gongs.
Dinagyang
- The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo
City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January.
- Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for 2006,
2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in
the Philippines.
Panagbenga Festival
- The festival in Baguio was created as a tribute to the city’s
flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the
1990 Luzon earthquake.
- The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers
unlike those used in Pasadena’s Rose Parade. The festival
also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in
flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian,

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an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the
Cordillera region.
Kaamulan Festival
- The Kaamulan Festival is a Bukidnon ethnic-cultural
festival, from the Binukid word amul, “to gather”, is an
indigenous Bukidnon term for a gathering for any
purpose.
- The Festival is held in Malaybalay City from the second
half of February to March 10, the anniversary date of the
foundation of Bukidnon as a province in 1917, to
celebrate the culture and tradition of the seven ethnic
tribal groups—Bukidnon, Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo,
Matigsalug, Tigwahanon and Umayamnon—that
originally inhabited the province.
Moriones Festival
- The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on
the island of Marinduque .
- The “Moriones” are men and women in costumes and
masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as
interpreted by local folks – Morion means “mask” or
“visor,” a part of the medieval Roman armor which covers
the face.
Maleldo Festival
- Every year on Good Friday or the Friday before Easter a
dozen or so penitents – mostly men but with the
occasional woman – are taken to a rice field in the barrio
of San Pedro Cutud, 3km (2 miles) from the proper of City
of San Fernando, Pampanga and nailed to a cross using
two-inch (5 cm) stainless steel nails that have been
soaked in alcohol to disinfect them.

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Turumbu
- Every year during the months of April and may, the people
of Pakil, in the province of Laguna celebrates the Turumba
Festival.
- It commemorates the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. It is held 7 times each year between the months of
April and May.
- The first is held on the Friday before Palm Sunday and
the last falls on Pentecost Sunday.
Flores de Mayo & Santacruzan
- Flores de Mayo is a Catholic festival held in the
Philippines in the month of May.
- Santacruzan is the queen of Maytime festivals. It is a
novena procession, in commemoration of Saint Helena’s
finding of the cross. Saint Helena was the mother of
Constantine the Great.
Carabao Festival
- Begining May 14th, the people of Pulilan in Bulacan
Province, San Isidro in Nueva Ecija Province, and Angono
in Rizal Province celebrate for two days.
- On the first day, farmers pay homage to the beast of
burden which is the farmer’s best friend – the lowly
carabao.
- In the afternoon, farmers lead their carabaos to the
church square to be part of the procession. At the church,
the carabaos kneel for their blessings.
- On the second day, the carabaos compete in a friendly
race.
Pahiyas Festival
- Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas Festival in honor of the
patron saint of farmers, St. Isidore.
- This festival showcases a street of houses which are
adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products,
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handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made decoration, which
afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried. The houses are
judged and the best one is proclaimed the winner.
Obando Fertility Rates
- “Santa Clarang pinong-pino, Ang pangako ko ay ganito,
Pagdating ko sa Obando, Sasayaw ako ng pandanggo.”
- The Obando Fertility Rites are a Filipino dance ritual.
Every year during the month of May, to the tune of
musical instruments made out of bamboo materials, the
men, women and children of Obando, Bulacan ,
Philippines wear traditional dance costumes to dance on
the streets followed by the images of their patron saints
San Pascual Baylon (St. Paschal), Santa Clara (St. Clare)
and Nuestra Señora de Salambao (Our Lady of Salambao),
while singing the song Santa Clara Pinung-Pino.
- The feast days or dance festivals are held for three
consecutive days: May 17 for St. Paschal, May 18 for St.
Claire and May 19 for the Our Lady of Salambaw.
- What makes the Obando fiesta unique among Philippine
festivals is the dance performed in the streets by the
childless women.
Pintados
- The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is a merry-making event
lasting a whole month, highlights of which include the
Leyte Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals, the Pintados
Festival Ritual Dance Presentation and the Pagrayhak
Grand Parade.
- The Leyteños celebrate a religious festival in a unique and
colorful way. Since the Visayans are experienced in the
art of body tattooing, men and women are fond of
tattooing themselves.

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Sandugo Festival
- The Spanish colonization of the Philippines began with a
blood-sealed peace treaty on the shores of Bohol. This
historic event is remembered today with an all-out fiesta
at the island's capital city.
- Check out the Sandugo street dancing parade featuring
ten colorfully-dressed groups dancing to the beat of
drums.
- There's also a traditional Filipino carnival, a martial arts
festival, and Miss Bohol Sandugo Beauty Pageant, among
the dozens of other exciting activities.
Kadayawan Festival
- The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city
of Davao in the Philippines.
- Its name derives from the friendly greeting “Madayaw”,
from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good,
valuable, superior or beautiful.
- The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the
gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of
harvest and serenity of living.
Masskara Festival
- The MassKara Festival is a week-long festival held each
year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental
province.
- The festival features a street dance competition where
people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see
colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin
musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination
and stamina.
- The word MassKara has a double meaning. First, it is a
fusion of the English word “mass” or many and “kara”, the
Spanish word for “face.” MassKara then becomes a “mass
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Bacolod already known in the late 70’s as the City of
Smiles.
Lanzones Festival
- Each year there is a Lanzones Festival held in October.
The week-long festival is one of the more colorful events
in the Philippines
- The Lanzones festival celebrated its 30th Anniversary last
October 2009.
Higantes
- Angono celebrates the “Higantes Festival” which coincides
with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of
Angono.
- Higantes Festival is now promoted as tourism-generating
event in the country. This attracts numerous tourist from
all over the world.
- The higantes are made of paper-mache. Higantes
measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve
feet in height.
- Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono
was a Spanish hacienda. This higantes was influenced by
the Mexican art form of paper-mache brought by the
Spanish priests to the Philippines.
Giant Lanterns Festival
- The Giant Lanterns Festival is an annual festival held in
December (Saturday before Christmas Eve) in the City of
San Fernando in the Philippines.
- The festival features a competition of giant lanterns.
Because of the popularity of the festival, the city has been
nicknamed the “Christmas Capital of the Philippines”.

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Activity No.2. Identify what is being asked for.

_________________________1. It is an annual festival in the city

of Davao in the Philippines.
_________________________2. It is an annual festival held in
December (Saturday before Christmas Eve) in the City of San
Fernando in the Philippines.
_________________________3. It is the queen of Maytime
festivals.
_________________________4. It is a Catholic festival held in the
Philippines in the month of May.
_________________________5. It is an annual festival held on
Holy Week on the island of Marinduque.
_________________________6. It is a feast held in honor of the
Santo Niño held annually in January concluding on third
Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.
_________________________7. It is a religious and cultural
festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of
January.
_________________________8. It is a Bukidnon ethnic-cultural
festival, from the Binukid word amul, “to gather”, is an
indigenous Bukidnon term for a gathering for any purpose.
_________________________9. It is a week-long festival held each
year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental
province.
_________________________10. This festival showcases a street
of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables,
agricultural products, handicrafts and kipping, a rice-made
decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried.

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Module 3: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and
Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts Production

Lesson 1: Methods of Art Production and Presentation

Different Methods Used by the Artist in the Production and

Presentation of an Art are:
• Realism
• Abstraction
• Symbolism
• Fauvism
• Dadaism
• Futurism
• Surrealism
• Expressionism

Realism
▪ Attempts to portray the subject as it is
▪ Realists try to be as objective as possible
▪ Main function is to describe as accurately and honestly as
possible what is observed through the senses
▪ However, in the process of selecting and presenting his
material, he cannot help being influenced by what he feels
or thinks
▪ An artwork is realistic when the presentation and
organization of details in the work seem so natural
▪ Realism is a common way of presenting the art subject
▪ Ex. Amorsolo’s paintings
Abstraction
▪ Is used when the artist becomes so interested in one
phase of a scene or a situation that he does not show the
subject at all as an objective reality, but only his idea, or
his feeling about it
▪ Means “to move away or separate”
▪ Abstract art moves away from showing things as they
really are

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▪ The painter or artist paints the picture not as it really
looked
▪ The picture is not just like life
▪ Not “realistic”
▪ Distortion – manifested when the subject is in misshapen
condition, or the regulars shape is twisted out
▪ Elongation – refers to that which is being lengthened,
protraction or an extension
▪ Mangling – objects that are cut, lacerated, mutilated or
hacked with repeated blows
▪ Cubism – stresses abstract form through the use of a
cone, cylinder, or sphere at the expense of other pictorial
elements. Ex. Cezanne, George Braque of France and
Pablo Picasso o Spain
▪ Abstract expression – a style of abstract painting that
originated in New York City after WWII and gained an
international vogue.
▪ Strong color, heavy impasto, uneven brush strokes, and
rough textures
▪ Abstract expressionism departs completely from subject
matter, from studied precision and from any other kind of
preconceived design
▪ Ex. Jackson Pallock, New York
Symbolism
▪ Transcends the everyday run-of-the-mill sign and
assumes a new and fresh meaning, originating from a
highly personal and even unique association born in the
mid of the poet or painter
▪ Ex. Juan Luna “Spolarium” (referred to the spoils of war,
spoils of tyrants and the king)
Fauvism
▪ First important art movement of the 1900’s
▪ Henry Matisse led the movement
▪ Andre Derain, Raoul dufy, George Rouault (France)
▪ Artists tried to paint pictures of comfort, joy and pleasure
▪ Uses extremely bright colors
▪ Fauvism was a brief art movement made up of several
young Parisian painters at the beginning of the 20th
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century. Primarily a transitional movement, Fauvism
came about as the art world shifted from the Post-
Impressionism of Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Gauguin to the
Cubism of Braque and Picasso.
▪ Led by Henri Matisse, this group of painters often used
vivid colors—without much mixing or blending—to create
flat shapes in their paintings while still being
representational.
▪ Their paintings weren’t meant to closely mimic nature or
re-create the impression of light as the Impressionists
had, but to use whatever colors necessary to express an
emotion or feeling.
▪ The name, Les Fauves was actually first used as a
derogatory remark about their work by French art critic
Louis Vauxcelles. Les Fauves actually means “wild
beasts”—it referred to Matisse and the others’ choice of
colors, indicating that their work was savage and
primitive.
Dadaism
▪ Dada (hobby horse) nonsensical
▪ The first major anti-art movement, Dada was a revolt
against the culture and values which - it was believed -
had caused and supported the carnage of The First World
War (1914-18).
▪ It quickly developed into an anarchistic anti-art
movement whose aim was to subvert and undermine the
value system of the ruling establishment which had
allowed the war to happen, including the arts
establishment which they viewed as inextricably linked to
the discredited socio-political status quo.
▪ Erupting simultaneously in 1916, in Europe and America,
its leaders were typically very young, in their early
twenties, and most had "opted out", avoiding conscription
in the shelter of neutral cities such as New York, Zurich
and Barcelona.
▪ Who Founded Dada?
▪ Although Dadaist ideas were already surfacing on both
sides of the Atlantic, the actual name Dada was coined in
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Zurich in 1916. According to the poet Richard
Huelsenbeck (1892-1927), the word was selected at
random by himself and the painter-musician Hugo Ball
(1886-1927) from a German-French dictionary.
▪ Essentially (and probably deliberately) a nonsense word,
Dada means Yes-Yes in Russian, and There-There in
German (universal baby-talk); while in French it means
hobbyhorse. Along with Jean Arp (1887-1966) and the
Romanian poet and demonic activist Tristan Tzara (1896-
1963), the pair also founded the Cabaret Voltaire in
Zurich, an early centre of multi-cultural Dada events and
protest shows.
▪ Other Zurich Dada supporters included the Romanian
Sculptor Marcel Janco (1895-1984), and the German
painter and film-maker Hans Richter (1888-1976).
Futurism
▪ To capture the speed and force of modern industrial
society
▪ Glorified the mechanical energy of modern life
▪ Automobiles, motorcycles and railroad trains-express the
explosive vitality of modern city
Surrealism
▪ Founded in Paris in 1924 by the French poet Andre
Breton
▪ Tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of daily
life.
▪ ‘super realism’
▪ Emphasizes the activities of the subconscious state of the
mind
▪ Subjects attempt to show what is inside man’s mind as
well as the appearance of his outside world
▪ Creates forms and images not primarily by reason, but by
unthinking impulse and blind feeling or even by accident
▪ Surrealists declare that a magical world- more beautiful
than the real one-can be created in art and literature
▪ Much of the beauty sought by surrealism is violent and
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▪ To shock the viewer or reader and show what they
consider the deeper and truer part of human nature
▪ Ex. Benjamin Mendoza, Bolivian
▪ Surrealism is defined as "a style in which fantastical
visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with
no intention of making the work logically
comprehensible." For the first time, artists could “express
their imagination as revealed in dreams, shaped by
emerging theories on our perception of reality, free of the
conscious control of reason and convention.”
▪ It was no wonder many people of this time period were
drawn to this fantasy world, for Europe was in the midst
of a "reconstruction" due to Irish (civil) wars, a new
dictator, and economic issues. Surrealism’s main purpose
was “to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of
dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-
reality.”
Expressionism
▪ Introduced in Germany during the first decade of 20th
century
▪ Believed in the necessity of a spiritual rebirth for man in
an age that was fast becoming influenced by materialism
▪ The emotional expressions in expressionistic paintings
could be described as involving pathos, morbidity,
violence or chaos, and tragedy. It sometimes portray
defeat
▪ The movement is originaly German and Austrian. There
was never a group of artists that called themselves
Expressionists.
▪ There were a number of Expressionist groups in painting,
including the Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke.
▪ Later in the 20th century, the movement influenced a
large number of artists, including the so-called abstract
expressionists, the latter consisting primarily of American
artists such as Jackson Pollock.
▪ At the end of the 20th century, a group of artists in the
South America developed a style known as Southern
expressionism.
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▪ Expressionist groups Expressionism painting is a
represented distortion of reality resulting on an emotional
effect. It can often implies emotional angst. Emotion is a
neural impulse that moves an organism to action.
Emotion is differentiated from feeling.
▪ El Greco or Matthias Grünewald can be called
expressionist, but in practice, the term is applied only to
20th century works.

Activity No. 3. Answer the following questions.

1. Explain the difference between realism and abstraction.
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2. Why do visual artist differ from style or methods in

presenting the subject?
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Module 4: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and

Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts Production
Lesson 1: CONTEMPORARY ARTS PRODUCTION

Skills Enhancement
- Refers to strengthening of acquired artistic skills as these
are applied in the production of artworks or integrated in
other fields of specialization. Example: Musical Play
Production

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1. Language and Literature -These skills are being enhance
through communicative ways such as drama, creative writing
and many more.
2. Painting, Sculptures, and Architectures -These skills are
being enhance through creation of creative ideas into a reality.
3. Music -These skills are being enhance through vocal and
instrument practices.
4. Dance -These skills are being enhance through intensive
practice of body movements and routines.
5. Drama -These skills are being enhance through the help of
media expert.

Integrated Art Production

➢ is a concept where in it entails the service of many artists
or of one individual possessing various artistic skills
collaborating with others.
➢ EXAMPLE: The creation of an artwork is either a simple
or complex process. The more skills involved, the more
complex the process. Example is the Electric Lantern
Making in Pampanga. The skills that were used to create
that lantern were DESIGNING, PAINTING, SCULPTING,
ELECTRICAL SKILLS, AND PYROTECHNICIANS. With
this kind of skills, they were able to create and Electrical
Lantern.

Production Planning
➢ It is a planning on the ways and means of production to
have direction in the activities to be undertaken by the
producer. It is the prerequisite of production control.
➢ EXAMPLE: Class Production there are the Actors,
production stuff, costume, props, sound, and many more.

Film Production
Production refers to the tasks that must be completed or
executed during the filming or shooting. This includes tasks
such as setting up scenes, the capture of raw footage, and
usage of set designs, to name a few of the many pre-
production tasks.
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Production is the second step in film creation. It follows
the pre-production phase and evolves into the post-
production stage.

Parts of Production
1. Producer- This person is essentially the group leader and
is responsible for managing the production from start to
finish. The producer develops the project from the initial idea,
makes sure the script is finalized, arranges the financing and
manages the production team that makes the film.
2. Director- The director is primarily responsible for
overseeing the shooting and assembly of a film. While the
director might be compared to a novel's author as a film's
primary visionary, he or she would not be able to make the
film without the help of numerous other artists and
technicians.
3. Screen Writer- While the dialogue in a film may seem
natural to the viewer, a writer carefully crafts it; however, the
screenwriter does far more than provide dialogue for the
actors. He or she also shapes the sequence of events in a film
to ensure that one scene transitions to the next so that the
story will unfold logically and in an interesting way.
4. Art Director- The art director is responsible for the film's
settings: the buildings, landscapes and interiors that provide
the physical context for the characters. This person is
responsible for acquiring props, decorating sets and making
the setting believable.
5. Costume Designer- Costumes convey a great deal about
the film's time period and the characters who wear them,
including their economic status, occupation and attitude
toward themselves. Be sure to think about how costuming can
show something about the character visually.
6. Editor- Shortly after shooting begins, the editor begins to
organize the footage and arranges individual shots into one
continuous sequence. Even in a single scene, dozens of
different shots have to be chosen and assembled from
hundreds of feet of film. The editor's choices about which

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shots to use, and the order in which to place them, have a
profound effect on the appearance of the final film.
7. Actors- Responsible for portraying the characters in a film,
actors work closely with the director and cinematographer.
Considering an actor's role within this larger context also
suggests that his or her job is much more difficult than just
appearing on the set and reciting lines.

Activity No. 4. Identify what is being asked for.

________________________1. This person is responsible for

acquiring props, decorating sets and making the setting
believable.

________________________2. It refers to the tasks that must be

completed or executed during the filming or shooting.

________________________3. This person is essentially the

group leader and is responsible for managing the production
from start to finish.

________________________4. This person shapes the sequence

of events in a film to ensure that one scene transitions to the
next so that the story will unfold logically and in an interesting
way.

________________________5. It refers to strengthening of

acquired artistic skills as these are applied in the production
of artworks or integrated in other fields of specialization.

________________________6. This person is responsible for

portraying the characters in a film, actors work closely with
the director and cinematographer.

________________________7. This person is primarily

responsible for overseeing the shooting and assembly of a film.

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________________________8. It is a planning on the ways and
means of production to have direction in the activities to be
undertaken by the producer.

________________________9. These skills are being enhance

through the help of media expert.

________________________10. It is a concept where in it entails

the service of many artists or of one individual possessing
various artistic skills collaborating with others.

Module 5: Different Contemporary Art Techniques and

Performance Practices & Contemporary Arts Production

Lesson 1: STAGES IN PRODUCTION

1. Development- The start of a project varies, but generally

will begin with development of a script, be that an existing
script, a book, a brief story outline. Development may also
start with a Director and/or Writer pitching an idea to a
Producer.
2. Pre-Production- This is the phase where you would narrow
down the options of the production. It is where all the
planning takes place before the camera rolls and sets the
overall vision of the project. Pre-production also includes
working out the shoot location and casting. The Producer will
now hire a Line Manager or Production Manager to create the
schedule and budget for the film.
3. Production- During this phase it is key to keep planning
ahead of the daily shoot. The primary aim is to stick to the
budget and schedule, this requires constant vigilance.
Communication is key between location, set, office,
production company, distributors - in short, all parties
involved.
4. Principle Photography- This is when the camera rolls. It
is nearly always the most expensive phase of film production,
due to actor, director, and set crew salaries, as well as the
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costs of certain shots, props, and on-set special effects.
Everything that has happened up to this point is to make
principal photography go as smoothly and efficiently as
possible. Communication between all parties is crucial during
the shoot and the production must maintain a full set of
records and strive to remain on time and on budget.
5. Wrap- The period immediately after shooting ends. It is
when we strike (dismantle) the set and clear the location.
Everything must be returned in good order to suppliers and
there must be a full set of records of the shoot.
6. Post Production- This stage starts when principal
photography ends, but they may overlap. The bulk of
postproduction consists of reviewing the footage and
assembling the movie - editing. There will be contributions as
required from Visual Effects (VFX), Music and Sound Design.
The picture will now be locked and delivery elements will be
created.
7. Distribution- Once the film is completed, it must be
distributed. This is how producers make their money back
and a considerable amount of time and energy will be invested
to secure the right distribution deals for their projects. The
film will go into the cinema and/or be distributed via various
platforms such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, and HBO, etc.

Activity No.5. Answer the following questions.

1. Why is distribution important in film?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
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2. What is the importance of post-production in film-making?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

RUBRICS
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Excellent effort and presentation with detail. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the topic.
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detail.
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Value: 3
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REFERENCES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJdxfe6j8VU
https://znnhs.zdnorte.net/wp-
content/uploads/2021/03/Signed-off_Contemporary-
Philippine-Arts11_q2_m7_Techniques-and-Performance-
Practices-_v3.pdf
https://www.slideshare.net/misskml/festivals-and-fiestas-
of-philippines
https://www.slideshare.net/LeahCondina1/methods-of-art-
production-and-presentation

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