ART APPRECIATION: Creativity, Imagination, and Expression

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. Differentiate art from nature,

2. Characterize artistic expression based on personal experience with art,
3. Discuss the nature of art’s preliminary expression, and
4. Categorize works of art by
citing personal experiences.

• It takes an artist to make art. One may perceive beauty.

• However, not every beautiful thing that can be seen or experienced may truly be called an art of
work.

• Art is a product of man’s creativity, imagination, and expression.

• Not everyone can be considered an artist, but all art spectators of art.

• We are able to distinguish what is fine and beautiful from what is not and what good quality is
and from poor.

• This give us a role in the field of Art Appreciation.

ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE

• “ The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and
perspective”- Jean-Paul Sartre

• Each artwork beholds beauty in its own kind, the kind that the artist sees and wants the
viewers to perceive.

• More often than not, people are blind to this beauty and only those who have developed a
fine sense of appreciation can experience and see the art the way the artist did.

• Hence, refining one’s ability to appreciate arts allows him to deeply understand the purpose
of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses.

• In cultivating an appreciation of art, one should also exercise and develop his taste for things
that are fine and beautiful.
 • This allows individuals to make intelligent choices and decisions in acquiring necessities and
luxuries, knowing what give better value for time or money while taking into consideration
the aesthetic and practical value.

• Learning to appreciate art no matter what vocation or profession you have, will lead to a
fuller and more meaningful life.

THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART MAKING

• Creativity requires thinking outside the box.

• In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.

WHEN CAN YOU SAY THAT SOMETHING IS CREATIVE?

• When we have not seen anything like it

• When it is out of the ordinary

• When it is not just a copy or limitation of someone’s work

.....THERE IS ORIGINALITY!

• Nowadays, being creative can be quite challenging.

ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION, IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

• “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know
and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know
and understand.”-Albert Einstein

• Imagination is not constraint by the walls of the norm, but goes beyond that.

• Through imagination, one is able to craft something bold, something new and something better
in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change.

• In artist’s mind sits a vast gallery of artworks

• An artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be something that is imaginary.

• However, something imaginary does not necessarily mean it cannot be called art. Artist use their
imagination that gives birth to reality through creation.

• In the same way that imagination produces art, art also inspire imagination.
ART AS EXPRESSION

• “What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but expresses it. Through expression, he
is able to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of
them.”- Robin George Collingwood

• Expressing emotions is different from describing emotions.

• This makes people’s art not a reflection of what is outside or external to them, but reflectionof
their inner selves.

VISUAL ARTS

• Creation that fall under this category is those that appeals to the sense of sight and are
mainly visual in nature.

• Artist produce visual arts driven buy their desire to reproduce things that they have seen in
the way they perceived them.

• There are also other artistic discipline that also involve a visual aspect, such as performance,
drawings, lettering, printing, sculpture, digital imaging.

FILM

• Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an
illusion of movement.

• Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is considered both an
art and an industry.

• Techniques in film-making process:

• Motion –picture camera( also known as movie camera)

• Animation techniques

• Computer-generated imagery (CGI)

• Filmmaking simulates experiences or creates one that is beyond the scope of our imagination as
it aims to deliver ideas, feelings, or beauty to its viewers.

PERFORMANCE ART

• Performance art is a live art and the artists; medium is mainly the human body which he or she
uses to perform, but also employs other kind of as such as visual art, props, or sound.

• Elements of performance arts:

• Time

• Where the performance took place

• The performer’s body. Relationship between the audience and the performer(s)

• The fact that the performance art is live makes it intangible, which means it cannot be bought or
traded as a commodity.

POETRY PERFORMANCE

• It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values that do beyond its literal meaning to
narrate emphasize, argue, or convince.

• These words combined with movements, tone, volume, and intensity of the delivery add to the
artistic, value of the poem.

ARCHITECTURE

• Art is the pursuit and creation of beautiful things while architecture is the making of
beautiful buildings.
 • However, not all building are beautiful because some only embody the functionality
they need, but the structure, lines, forms, and colors are not beautifully expressed.

• Important elemntes:

a. Plan

b. Construction

c. Design

• Building should embody these three important elemnets if they wish to merit the title
architecture.

DANCE

• Dance is series of mvements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.

• Dancing is acreative art form that allows people to freely express themselves.

• IT HAS NO RULES.

• Choreography may seem not to allow this, but in art expression, dancers are not confined to set
steps and rules but are free to create and invent their own movements as long as they deem
them graceful and beautiful.

LITERARY ART

• Artists who practice literary arts use words to expres themselves and communicate emotions to
the readers.

• Simply becoming a writer does not make one a literary artist.

• Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic and other technical forms
of writing.

• It focuses on writing using a unique style , not following a specific format or norm.

• It may include both fiction an dnon-fiction such as novels, biographies, and poems.

a. Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare

b. The Little Prince- Antoine de Sain-Exupery

THEATER

• Theater uses live performance to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.
 • Theater art performance usually follows follow a script, though they should not be confused
with literary arts.

• Like in filmmaking, theater also considers several elements such as acting, gesture, lighting,
sound effects, musical score, scenery and props.

• Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and improvisation

APPLIED ARTS

• Applied arts is incorporating elemnts of style and design to everyday items with theaim of
increasing their aesthestic value.

• Artists in this field bring beauty , charm, and comfort into many things that were useful in
everyday life.

• Industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic design