This document provides an overview of different forms of visual art and sculpture. It discusses various types of sculpture like free-standing, relief, assemblage, and kinetic sculpture. It also covers other art forms like printmaking, pottery, photography, basketry, tattoo art, textile weaving, and more. Key sculpture types discussed are free-standing sculptures that can stand independently, relief sculptures that project from a surface, and assemblage sculptures made by combining found objects. The document provides examples and descriptions of different visual art media and techniques.

1. CONTEMPORARY
ARTS PHILIPS.
FROM REGION.
LESSON 3: SCULPTURE AND OTHER FORMS OF VISUAL

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• In contrast to painting, sculpture has three
dimensions- height, width, and depth. It is
created by either carving, modeling, or
assembling parts together.

3. General Kinds of sculpture
•Free- standing
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This kind of sculpture that can independently stand in space. It has a flat
horizontal base. All its side contribute to the overall form of the sculpture

5. Relief
• this kind of sculpture does not have flat horizontal base. The form is
projected from a flat surface. There are two types of relief- low relief or bas
relief, and high relief. The form of relief projects slightly from the flat
surface, in contrast to the high relief, bronze sculptures of Jose rizal at the
entrance of the Rizal.

6. Low relief sculpture High relief sculpture

7. Assemblage
this sculpture is form by putting together materials such as found objects,
pieces of paper, sponges, wood scraps, and other materials. Example of this is
Lamberto Hechanova’s Man and Women.

8. • Kinetic Sculpture
This is considered as a sculpture in motion because the entire sculpture or some part of the
sculpture are moving with the wind or vibrating with the surrounding air.
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9. Welded sculptures
creating these sculptures involve the process of connecting
sheets of metal together by using acetylene or electric torch.
Most sculptures of Eduardo Castrillo are welded sculptures.

10. Use of glass
Ramon Orlina and emelda pilapil Started the used of glass in sculpture. Orlina used
glass in table pieces, murals, and sculptures which are usually unified into a frame
work. On the other hand, Pilapil used glass plane with irregular shapes and linear
patterns.

11. • Symbolic sculpture
A good example of symbolic sculpture is the interpretation of Abdulmari Imao on
okir design, which is a maranao design tradition that is typically used in
woodcarving. Imao produced four contemporary series of the okir: the sarimanok,
the sari mosque, the sari-okir and caligrahic sculptures.

13. Advertising Art
This refers to using paid space or time in any of the media to inform and influence the
public.

14. • Bamboo Art
This refers to works made of bamboo that may be used for everyday purposes
or for decoration’s or ornaments.

15. • Basketry
This refers to the art of creating containers by weaving , plaiting, or braiding
materials into hollow three- dimensional shapes that can either be used for
carving, storage, and trapping animals.

16. Book Design
Book design involves structuring and reproduction of bound [ages that are filled with text and images, and
are protected by hard or soft covers.

17. Costumes
These are garments, hairstyles, and accessories tat are worn by individual memebers or groups in a particularly
society. These may vary according to class, sex, age, civil status, occupation, rank and personal taste of an individual.

18. • Embroidery
This refers to the art of stitching ornaments on cloth by hand.

19. Food art
This involves Packaging and/or presentation of food in an artistic way. This is different form western
garnishing, which involves adding decorative touches.

20. Furniture
These are decorative and functional objects which are typically found in a public or
private dwelling or building. These are also known as muebles or kasangakapan.

21. • Komiks and editorial cartoon
both komiks and editorial cartoon involve illustrations of stories and events.
However, an editorial cartoon is a dingle frame illustration that may either
makes us fun of political leaders or institutions, or comments on current
events. The komiks, on the other hand, may use single or multiple frames
with conversations of people or animals placed inside “ballons

23. • Leaf art
Leaf art is used in religious rituals, food wrapping and even as a form of modern
artistic expression. This makes leaf art different from basketry. The palaspas that
is used every palm Sunday is an example of leaf art.

25. • Mat weaving
This refers to the art of plaiting strips of organic fibers into mats, locally known
as banig, are cool, light, and portable compared to fixed beds.

26. • Metal craft
This includes all objects made from metal using the processes of brass
casting and blacksmithing, tinsmithing and goldsmithing and silversmithing.

27. Brass casting and blacksmithing
This process involves casting and forging pieces of brass or bronze. Tools, containers, weapons,
and other items can be created using this process. Anting-anting or amulets are also created using
this process.

28. Goldsmithing and silversmithing
These process involves the use of gold and silver in creating objects and ornaments.

29. •Tinsmithing
tinsmithing can be easily seen in creating, jeepneys, calesa, and cariton and icecream cart.
Multimedia
this consists of works that involve the use of other senses in appreciating those works aside from sense of vision.

30. Conceptual Art
In this type of multimedia, a visual artist “ideates or sets up a situation, placing philosophical value in the
process itself, while negating the importance of craftsmanship in arriving at a finish art object.

31. •Installation Art
In this type of multimedia, the artist puts together materials and object in an
exhibition space to cast a new experience or idea.

32. •Performance Art
In this type of multimedia, an artist converts himself or herself into an art object in motion and sound.

33. Paper Art
This involves the process of cutting, pasting, recycling, and/ or constructing of objects from paper.
Paper art used to be limited with folk paper art such as taka and higante from Angono, pastillas
wrappings, and kites.

34. • Personal Ornaments
These are objects that are worn on the human body. Jewelry falls under this
form. These are worn either to enhance a part of the body of the wearer, to
exhibit rank or status, or to symbolize ritualistic and emotional state.

35. • photography
This refers to the process of producing images using a light- sensitive chemical
plate or film. Photographs are taken to serve as portraits and as propaganda

36. • Pottery
Pottery is general term for decorative and useful objects made from clay
and set off at high temperatures. This is frequently interchange with “ceramics”
however, it is important to note that application of ceramics wider and even
includes industrial use. There are three types of pottery. These are:

37. Earthenware or terracotta
this type of pottery is made from clay and is usually fired at 1,700-2,100 °F.

38. Stoneware
This type of pottery is made from clay and feldspar. Stoneware is usually fired at 2,220-2,230 °F.

39. Porcelain
this type of pottery is made from kaolin, a special type of clay that is extra fine and white, and
feldspar. Porcelain is fired at 2,500-2,700 °F.

40. • Printmaking
This refers to transferring images from a firm surface, such as metal or
wood, to a pliable surface, such as cloth or paper, using pressure.

41. • Tattoo Art
This refers to a body adornment permanently engraved on the skin using a
shap instrument and plant dyes or inks. A tattoo is worn for several reasons, it
may serve as simply a type of clothing or to enhance physical beauty of the
wearer.

42. • Textile weaving
This refers to the process of creating cloth by interweaving a series of
parallel vertical threads at right angles.