Art

Appreciation:
Creativity,
Imagination
and Expression
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, student should be able to:
1. Differentiate art from nature;
2. Characterize artistic expression based on
personal experiences with art;
3. Discuss the nature of art’s preliminary
expression; and
4. Categorize works of art by citing personal
experiences.
 Art
Appreciation:
Creativity,
Imagination
and Expression
Art is a product of
man’s creativity,
imagination, and
expression.
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 artists sees and wants the viewers to
perceive.
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

o Creativity requires thinking outside

the box.
o In art, creativity is what sets apart one
artwork from another.
When can we say that
something is creative?
o When we have not seen anything like it
o When it is out of the ordinary
o When it is not just a copy or imitation of
someone’s work

“THERE IS ORIGINALITY!”
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
o Imagination is not constrained by the walls
of the norm, but goes beyond that.
o Through imagination, one is able to craft
something bold, something new and
something better in the hopes of creating
something that will stimulate change.
o An artwork does not need to be a real thing,
but can be something that is imaginary.
o Imagination produces art, art also inspires
imagination.

IMAGINATIO ART
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 Art as Expression
“What an artist does to an emotion is not
induce it, but express 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
o Expressing emotions is different from
describing emotions.
o This makes people’s art not a
reflection of what is outside or
external to them, but a reflection of
their inner selves
 Visual Arts
o Creation that fall under this category are those
that appeals to the sense of sight and are
mainly visual in nature.
 Visual Arts
o Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire
to reproduce things that they have seen in the
way that they perceived them.
o There are also other artistic disciplines that
involves a visual aspect, such as performance
arts, theatre, and applied arts.
o Some mediums of visual arts include paintings,
drawings, letterings, printing, sculpture, digital
imaging.
 Film
o Film refers to the
art of putting
together
successions of still
images in order to
create an illusion
of movement.
 Film
• 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)
 Film
o Filmmaking stimulates experiences or
creates one that is beyond the scope of
our imagination as it aims to deliver ideas,
feelings, or beauty to its viewers.
 Perfomance Art
• Performance art is a live art and the artist’s
medium is mainly the human body which he or
she uses to perform, but also employs other kind
of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
 Performance Art
o Elements of performance arts:
• Time
• Where the performance took place
• The performer’s boy
• Relationship between the audience and the
performer(s)
o The fact that performance art is live
makes it intangible, which means it cannot
be bought or traded as a commodity.
 Poetry Performance
o Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses
his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or
camera, but expresses them through words.
 Poetry Performance
o These words are carefully selected to exhibit
clarity and beauty and to stimulate strong
emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow among
others.
o It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial
values that go beyond its literal meaning to
narrate emphasize, argue, or convince.
 Poetry Performance
o 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.
 Architecture
o 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.
o Important elements:
o Plan
o Construction
o Design
o Building should embody these three important
elements if they wish to merit the title architecture.
 Dance
• Dance is series of movements that follow the
rhythm of the music accompaniment.
 Dance
• Dancing is a creative 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

• Artist who practice literary arts use words to

express themselves and communicate emotions
to the readers.
 Literary Art
• 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.
 Literary Art
• It focuses on writing using a unique style, not
following a specific format or norm.
• It may include both fiction and non-fiction such
as novels, biographies, and poems.
– Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
– The Little Prince – Antoine de Sain-Exupery
 Theater
• Theater uses live performers to present
accounts or imaginary events before a live
audience.
 Theater
• 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.
 Theater
• Like performance art, theater also is a live
performance.
• Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and
improvisation.
 Applied Arts
• Applied arts is incorporating elements of style
and design to everyday items with the aim of
increasing their aesthetic value.
 Applied Arts
• 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