CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

1ST SEMESTER – SY 2021-2022

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

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WEEK 5: Local Materials used in Creating Art

Learning Task 1: Study and analyze the two pictures below by answering the guide questions that follow.

Guide Questions:
1. What materials were used in each artwork?
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2. Describe how the artwork was made?
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The Importance of Technique

The Pacific coast of Washington State, a cold grey morning, just ripe for pirates.

Technique, style, your look, whatever you want to call it is as individual as your signature. Yes your
paintings might look a bit like some other artist, and so long as it's not contrived, that's OK. We all strive for
originality but with so many artists out there it would be hard for one artist's work to not, somewhere in the
world, have their work resemble another artist's work. But just how important is Technique and how does an
artist go about creating their technique? I believe Technique, the artist's style, is important. It lets viewers
know that (insert artist's name here) painted that painting. It helps us artists to have a cohesive body of work.
That doesn't mean though that your technique must stay the same your whole life. As we age, we grow, we
change, so why shouldn't our work as well. Some artists have various techniques at the same time, this is
generally looked down upon by galleries and collectors, but then maybe they lack imagination. I say an artist
should paint what and how they paint anyway they want at any given time. My paintings often look a bit
different from each other, not because of my using different techniques but rather because I use different
surfaces which my pastels and watercolors are painted on and that can give paintings a different look as you
often have to handle a medium a bit different on different surfaces. Plus it's a given that an 6 oil painting
would look different then a watercolor.
So how does one find or create their technique? You don't. You already have it, again, it's like your
signature. You don't need to find the technique, you need to recognize your style and then nurture it. I spent
years looking for my technique, years. Yes I learned a lot doing so as I tried various ways of handling the many
different media I have worked in. I tried different schools of art, realism, Impressionism, abstract
Impressionism, expressionistic representationalism (say that five times fast) and even abstraction. I studied
hundreds of artists trying to paint like my favorite artist of the week. Again I learned a great deal. What I
learned most though, what was most important, was that I am who I am and I paint as I paint.
Okay, now comes the hard part, recognizing what is your technique. In this I can only speak for myself
and how I finally realized my way of painting, and I am sure there are thousands, perhaps millions of ways to
do so. There were times I would do a painting and there would be passages that seemed to beautiful for me to
have painted them. No way I could have painted that even if I tried. But I did! I didn't plan those passages,
they just sort of happened. They were what many artists call 'happy accidents' but maybe they are not
accidents at all but rather my technique trying to come out. When I realized that these accidents were not
accidents I began to build on them, nurture them, collect them, they became my 'look'. Another aspect of my
painting technique is lack of thought. Yes, you read that correctly. You see when I think or analyze my painting
as I paint I always screw the painting up, it's a given. But when I paint without analyzing, paint instinctually, I
will have, not always, more success. I believe my hand and gut know more of what to do than my brain, so I let
them have at it. Technique, finding it or recognizing it can be difficult and frustrating. It's not unlike just trying
to learn to create in whatever medium you choose. To learn how to handle a particular medium takes
practice, many hours of trying. So finding and developing your technique requires practice too. One needs to
open their mind (or shut it off as I do), open their heart, their emotions, to feel what is right, to let intuition
take over, to listen to their gut, let your hand(s) do the work, technique will come.

Guide Questions:
1. In your own words, define technique.
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2. Why is the use of technique valuable to an artist?
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TECHNIQUES AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES APPLIED

TO CONTEMPORARY ART

What is Technique?

Technique is the manner in which artist use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal
effect, and communicate the desired concept or meaning, according to his or her personal style (modern,
Neoclassic, etc.)
The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique. For example, stone is
chiseled, wood is carved; clay is modeled and shaped, metal is cast, and thread is woven.
There are some places in the Philippines that became famous because of the unusual or extraordinary
products that they make. These products become their way for the people to know about their places. These
people used traditional technique in creating a particular art that makes them famous.
Traditional techniques used by the Filipinos even from the past years are depicted in our painting,
sculpture, dance, architecture, music, and even textile. It only proves that Filipinos like any other people in the
world can be very proud of our Philippine arts

Traditional Techniques Used in Philippine Arts

Wood Carving – a technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into some sort of aesthetic
object.

Molding – a technique of shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay. Traditional pottery making in the
Philippines involves the method of molding. Pottery making in the Philippines is one of the longest traditions
in Philippine art.

Fabric Weaving - Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are
interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Textile hand-weaving is one of the most attractive and
interesting traditional crafts of the Philippines, imbued with romanticism and laden with cultural significance
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The Ilocano still practice hand-weaving using the pedal loom. Their materials are cotton and natural dyes,
although now they use store-bought threads and synthetic dyes. They know several weaving techniques and
designs, passed down to many generations.

Basketry Technique - There are four different types of basketry methods: coiling, plaiting, wickering, and
twining. Some of the terms that are specific to basket weaving include loops, twining, ribs, and spokes. The
common raw materials used in making baskets are rattan, abaca, nito, tikog, buri, bamboo, pandan, coconut
leaves and sticks, palm leaves, and beeswax. There are several baskets that use combined raw materials.

Coiled basketry, using grasses, rushes and pine needles

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Learning Task 3: What arts or products can be made by using the given materials and what technique will
be used in the creation?
Material Artwork/Product Technique

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Wood

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Fiber

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Clay

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Stone

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Coconut Leaves

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What I Have Learned:

Answer the questions briefly and concisely. (5 points)

1. How do materials affect the technique used in making Philippine art?

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Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the best answer for the questions.

1. It is the manner in which artist use and manipulate materials

A. Subject
B. Style
C. Technique
D. Theme

2. What is the importance of having a unique way of creating art in the local area?
A. It makes their community beautiful
B. It is a way of drawing other people to their place
C. It brings solidarity to the people
D. It makes the community more productive

3. Which phrase is incorrect?

A. Stone – fabricated
B. Clay – molded
C. Wood – carved
D. Thread – woven

4. Which is not a traditional technique in creating art?

A. Painting
B. Weaving
C. Basketry
D. Woodcarving

5. What is the best material for making a mat using plaiting technique?
A. Abaca
B. Nito grass
C. Clay
D. Wood

6. Which material is not use carving technique?

A. Clay
B. Wood
C. Stone
D. Ice

7. What technique is used in making the Burnay?

A. Stone
B. Clay
C. Fabric
D. Grass
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8. What weaving technique is used in making a banig?

A. Coiling
B. Plaiting
C. Wickering
D. Twining

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9. What technique in weaving is illustrated here?
A. Coiling
B. Plaiting
C. Wickering
D. Twining
10. It is the fabric that is popular and made in Ilocos?
A. T’nalak
B. Inabel
C. Jusi Baron
D. Malong

Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:

CHONA M. HILARIO APOLLO A. REYES NENITA N. DE LEON

Subject Teacher SHS Coordinator Secondary School principal III

JOB F. SALAMERO, JR.

Subject Teacher