ArtApp-Mod7-Motif

MOTIF

▪A ______ is the most basic unit or the smallest unit of pattern.

▪It is the most basic unit with the help of which a design or a composition is made.

▪ ______ are repeated in different ways to create patterns and these patterns are repeated to create a design.

▪ Each ______ is generally developed from a geometrical shape or a combination of different geometrical shapes.

▪ It is often inspired from nature and is also closely linked to natural, cultural, religious and socio-economic factors prevailing in any society.

GEOMETRIC MOTIF

▪ These motifs include lines in various forms, such as vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved.

▪ They form fabric designs, such as stripes, plaids, checks and circles and their associated designs.

▪ Weaving

▪ Knitting fabric

▪ Basket

▪ Chevron

▪ Herringbone

▪ Box layout

▪ Check board

▪ Diagonal stripes

▪ Polka dots

Examples of Geometric Motifs

REALISTIC OR NATURAL MOTIFS

▪ They portray as direct replicas of things as they exist in nature, such as flowers on trees, animals in the jungle, human figures and other natural things.

▪ Animal skins

▪ Fruit

▪ Vegetables

▪ Shell

▪ Stone

▪ Seeds

▪ Human hair

▪ Leaves

Examples of Realistic Motifs

STYLIZED MOTIFS

▪ These are simplified variations of natural or man-made objects that are no longer recognizable.

▪ These motifs are full of creativity, as they are the result of a designer’s interpretation of naturally existing things. Obtained by rearranging the real objects either by simplifying or exaggerating them to achieve the purpose of the design.

▪ Flower spilling out of basket, flowerpots, vases,bouquets and all that coming out the designer’s imaginary ideas form the stylized designs.

Examples of Stylized Motifs

ABSTRACT MOTIFS

▪ These are combinations of color, size, and shape without relationship to natural or man-made objects.

▪ ________ implies an element of impression and a greater freedom than is found in most geometric designs.

▪ This type of design is used in modern art.

Ethnic Art

▪ This means native or indigenous Philippine design. This kind of art is influenced by our Southeast-Asian neighbors.

▪ ________ has curvilinear and linear patterns or designs.

Folk Art

▪ It means People’s craft as well as handicrafts. This is basically made by the hands of the common people where the materials are crafted together that the process itself is also an art form.

▪ The quality and style of these products reflect the way of life of the makers.

The Serpent Demon of Naga

▪ The _______ design is said to be Sanskrit(India) origin. This art has a counterpart in Indonesia as dragons or mythical serpents.

▪ The form of an elaborate mythical serpent with a vigorous S-curve and numerous curvilinear motifs to suggest its scales.

Sarimanok

▪ A cultural symbol of Mindanao, and is highly regarded throughout the country.

▪ It is depicted as a fowl with colorful wings and feathered tail, holding a fish on its beak or talons. It is said to be a symbol of good fortune.

Tattoo Art

▪ _________ was very prevalent among the early Filipinos especially among the people in Central Visayas.

▪ Aside from being used for beautification, tattoos are also a symbol of rank, and are believed to have magical properties.

Prince Giolo

a tattooed tribal man was purchased as a slave in Mindanao and became part of public exhibition in England; making him “living artwork”

Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival Tacloban, Leyte

• Using a thorn from local Calamansi trees as the primary tool, by dipping the thorn, attached in a wooden stick, in a charcoal paste and then tapping repeatedly in one’s skin.

• The second is by cutting or prickling the skin wherein charcoal powder will be rubbed in the wounds it created.

chaklag

Two Bontoc Igorot men with ________ (chest tattoo)

Apo Whang-Od of Kalinga

proves that the art of Filipino tattoos remains steadfast against the modernized age

Pottery

Among our most ancient arts which combine design and function.

 Manunggul Jar

• excavated in Palawan is evidence of the high artistic level which the art attained in ancient times.

• This large burial jar has a cover which features two men rowing a boat, suggesting the belief of the early Filipinos in an afterlife that one reaches after crossing a mythical body of water.

Bulul

The Cordillera groups carve anito figures called ________ which double as ancestral spirits and granary gods

Bulul

▪ They are often found in pairs to signify the value of fertility.

▪ Human and animal motifs are also integrated into parts of houses such as door posts, as well as household objects such as bowls, forks, and spoons.

▪_______________are carved Anito figures of the Ifugao: these represent their ancestral spirit and granary gods 

IMPROVISATION

• is the act of creating something spontaneously without preparation.

• The term is associated with creativity and the ability to add value in a fast moving situation.

Contact Improvisation

▪ an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972

▪ American choreographer Steve Paxton.

▪ The improvised dance form is based on the

Communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion ---- gravity, momentum, inertia

▪ The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement.

▪ Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.

▪ To dance this form, we need to build a capacity for trust with ourselves and our partners.

▪ We nurture or harm that trust by our ability or inability to set and respect boundaries.

Improvisation in Theatre

▪ The playing of dramatic scenes without written dialogue and with minimal or no predetermined dramatic activity. The method has been used for different purposes in theatrical history.

▪ The theatrical form known as the commedia dell’arte was highly improvisational, although through repeated performances its characters developed stock speeches and stage business and its scenarios gained fairly standard form.

Music Improvisation

▪ The act of creating and playing new music without preparing it in advance. It involves creatively using the available resources at hand, such as musical instruments and your listening skills to compose music spontaneously.

SOUL AND SPACE

The art that brings people in spaces where they live, work, and others.

Torogan

▪ which literally translates as "a place for sleeping”

▪ is the stately house of elite members of the Maranao tribe in the province of Lanao del Sur in the island of Mindanao. As the house of the Datu or Sultan, it is a symbol of status and leadership.

Bale / Fale

▪ The Ifugao houses are usually similar in architectural designs but they differ in decorative details depending on the tribes.

▪ Their houses were harmoniously located with the contour of the Rice Terrace. The one-room house is commonly known to them as ______?

Bahay Kubo Or Nipa Hut

• lowland and coastal areas 

• often built with bamboo and palm leaves 

• raised to protect dwellers from dampness and humidity of the ground 

• silong, space under the house for storage or place for livestock 

"Their houses are constructed of wood, and are built on planks and bamboo, raised high from the ground on large logs, and one must enter them by means of ladders. They have rooms like ours; and under the house they keep their swine, goats and fowl." (Antonio Pigafetta, 1521) 

Bahay Na Bato

"The third and final stage in the development of the Spanish-Filipino domestic architecture retained the wooden supporting structure but restricted the use of brick and stone to the lower level; the upper level consisted of an enclosure in vertical wooden siding which left ample openings for sliding windows. Capiz shells were often used as window panes. What emerges is a Spanish Filipino house." (Architecture in the Philippines, Winand Klassen, 1986)

SYMMETRICAL ART

There is a balanced, harmonious quality inherent in __________, and when it’s present in design the result is the kind of consistency, order, and stability.  

It’s little wonder, then, that successful companies like McDonald’s and a myriad of car manufacturers employ symmetry in their logos.

ASYMMETRICAL

It is characterized by imbalance and disorder, and this type of tension can be unsettling, but also profoundly interesting.

Tends to carry a kind of complexity that conveys emotion, from light-hearted and too intense depending upon the execution.

OKIR (MOTIF)

• an art depicting the indigenous originality and skill is of the Maranaos.

• It is a fine art of figuring, painting, curving and sculpturing depicting the social and psychological identity of Maranao Society.

• It has been patronized a long time ago, until today and possibly in the coming generations of Maranao people.

• Every artifact or Maranao made ornament designed with authentic okir revealing that the Maranaos have a distinct and original culture and civilization not being imitated from other cultures.