ARTISTS
AND
ARTISANS

Artist is an art practitioner such as
painter, sculptor, choreographer,
dancer, musician, etc. who produces
or creates indirectly functional arts
with aesthetic value using
imagination.

Artisan is a craftsman, such as
carpenter, carver, plumber,
blacksmith, weaver, embroider, etc.
who produces directly functional
and/or decorative arts.

MEDIUM and
TECHNIQUES

 Medium is the mode of
expression in which the
concept, idea or message is
conveyed.
 These are the materials which
are used by an artist to interpret
his feelings or thoughts.
 Many mediums are use in

TECHNIQUE
(artist)
 Is the manner in which artist
controls his medium to achieve
the desired effect.
 It has something to do with the
way he manipulates his
mediums to express his idea.

VISUAL ARTS
 are those mediums that can be
seen and which occupy space.

THE
VISUAL
ART

• Art of creating meaningful effects
on flat surface by the use of
pigments.

Painter uses:
 Pigments on wood or canvas

WATERCOLOR
 it is difficult to handle because it
is difficult to produce warm and
rich tones but it invites brilliance
and a variety of hues.

GOUACHE
 An opaque watercolor painting the
major effects of which are caused
by the paper itself.

FRESCO
 pigments are mixed with water
and applied on a wet plaster.

TEMPERA
 pigments mixed with egg yolk or
egg white.

PASTEL
 a stick of dried paste made of
pigment round with chalk and
compounded with gum water.

ENCAUSTIC
 used by Egyptians for painted
portrait on mummy cases. It is
done by painting with wax colors
fixed with heat.

OIL
 oil painting is the one of the most
expensive art activities of today
because of the materials.
 pigments are mixed with linseed
oil and applied to canvas.

ACRYLIC
 the medium used today by the
modern painters and the only
thinner used is water.

PENCIL
 Most common medium in drawing.
 Pencil leads are graded in
different degrees of hardness or
softness.

PEN AND INK
 one of the oldest mediums still in use.
 offers great variety of qualities,
depending on the tools and
techniques used in application.
 India ink – comes
in liquid form;
favorite medium of
comic strip
illustrators and
cartoonists.

BISTRE
 brown pigment extracted from the
soot of wood.

CRAYONS
 pigments bound by wax and
compressed into painted sticks.

CHARCOAL
 carbonaceous materials obtained
by heating wood or organic
substances in the absence of
oxygen.

SILVERPOINT
 silver stylus that produce a thin
grayish line.

 the art of making two or three
dimensional representation by
means of carving, casting,
modeling and fabrication.

STONE
 hard and brittle substance formed
from mineral and earth material.

IVORY
 comes from the tusk of elephants,
the hard white substance used to
make carving and billiard balls.

METAL
 can be cast, cut, drilled, filled,
bent, forged and stamped.

PLASTER
 compose of lime, sand, and water.
 used extensively in making
mannequins, models, molds,
architectural decoration and other
indoor sculptures.

CLAY
 possesses
little strength
intention or
compression
and requires
an armature
for support.

GLASS
 medium that is hard, brittle, more
or less transparent substances
produced by fusion.

WOOD
 easier to carve than any mediums
available. They are lighter and
softer to carve despite of having
greater tensile strength.

TERRA COTTA
 a brownish red
clay that has
been baked and
used for making
pots and small
statues.

1. CARVING – involves cutting or
chipping away a shape from a mass of
stone, wood or other hard materials.

2. MODELING – built using an
armature and then shaped to create
a form.

3. CASTING – reproducing the form
from an original clay or wax model.
Bronze

4. ASSEMBLING / FABRICATION –
putting together of different materials
to create an assembled sculpture.
GENERAL
MARIANA
by Josephine
Turalba (NCR)
(plastic, brass,
copper, steel, gold)

 the art of designing a building
and supervising its construction.
 a shelter to serve as protection
of all activities of men.

MATERIALS USED IN
ARCHITECTURE
 Rock materials

 Metal materials

 Organic materials

 Hybrid Materials

 Synthetic materials

AWARDS
and
CITATIONS

 In history, support for the arts
and culture is not limited to
the allocation of funding or
patronship.
 The artist are given incentives
and honor for their work
through state-initiated and
given awards and citations.

2 MAJOR AWARDS GIVEN TO
PHILIPPINE ARTISTS
A. Orden ng Pambansang Alagad ng
Sining (Order of National Artists)

 The Order of National Artists is
the highest National
Recognition given to Filipino
individuals who have made
significant contributions to the
development of Philippine arts.
(Music, Dance, Theater, Visual
Arts, Literature, Film,
Architecture)

 Jointly administered by the
National Commission for Culture
and the Arts (NCCA) and the
Cultural Center of the Philippines
(CCP) and conferred by the
President of the Philippines upon
recommendation by both
institutions.
 The first recipient was Fernando
Amorsolo in 1972 (National Artist
for Visual Arts).

INCENTIVES AND PRIVILEGES
1. the rank and title
2. medallion or insignia and a
citation
3. cash awards and a host of
benefits (monthly life pension,
medical and hospitalization
and life insurance coverage)

4. a state funeral and burial at
the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
5. a place of honor or designated
area during national state
functions, along with
recognition or
acknowledgement at cultural
events.

B. Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan
(National Living Treasures Award)
GINAW
BILOG
MASINO
INTARAY
SAMAON
SULAIMAN

 conducts the search for the
finest traditional artists of the
land whose distinctive skills
have reach a high level of
technical and artistic
excellence and have been
passed on to and widely
practice by the present
generation in his community.

(weaving, carving, graphic and
plastic arts, textile, pottery
and other artistic expressions
of traditional culture)
created in 1992 under RA#
7355 by the NCCA.

INCENTIVES AND PRIVILEGES
1. a specially designed gold
medallion
2. an initial grant of 100,000php
and a 10,000php monthly
stipend for life (later increase
to 14,000php)

3. maximum cumulative
amount of 750,000php
medical and hospitalization
benefits
4. funeral assistance and
tribute fit for a national
living treasure