ART APPRECIATION:

CREATIVITY,
IMAGINATION, &
EXPRESSION

P R E S E N T E D B Y: A C U Ñ A & A L C A L A ( B S A 1 2 K A 3 )
 • Art is a product of man’s creativity.
• An artist invents his own forms and
ART patterns due to what he perceives as
beautiful and incorporates them in

ART VS.
creating his masterpiece.

• Nature is not considered as a form of

art.
NATURE
NATURE • Sketches or photographs of nature
are not a form of art either, instead
are recordings of beauty in nature.

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 ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE
Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher in the 20th century)
– Art as a creative work that depicts the world in a different perspective and source of human freedom.
(Greene, 1995)
– Each artwork beholds beauty of its own kind, the kind that the artist sees and wants the viewers to perceive.
– refining one's ability to appreciate art allows him to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and
recognize the beauty it possesses. (Collins & Riley, 1931)
• Exercise and develop his taste for things that are fine and beautiful
• Make intelligent choices and decisions in acquiring necessities and luxuries
• Learning to appreciate art, no matter what vocation or profession you have, will lead to a fuller and more
meaningful life (Collins & Riley, 1931).

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ART
APPRECIATION
:
CREATIVITY
 THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ART
MAKING

CREATIVITY REQUIRES CREATIVITY IS WHAT SETS HE EMBRACES

THINKING OUTSIDE THE APART ONE ARTWORK ORIGINALITY, PUTS HIS
BOX. FROM ANOTHER. OWN FLAVOR INTO HIS
WORK, AND CALLS IT HIS
OWN CREATIVE PIECE.

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ART
APPRECIATION:
IMAGINATION
 ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION
Albert Einstein (German physicist)
– knowledge is derived from imagination.
– "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.“
• Crafting of something bold, something new, and something better in the hopes of
creating something that will stimulate change.
• An artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be imaginary (Collingwood, 1938).
• Artists use their imagination that gives birth to reality through creation.

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 IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

Creative pieces were

made not only because
Art also inspires they were functional to
imagination. men, but also because
beauty gave them joy
(Collins & Riley, 1931).

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ART
APPRECIATION:
EXPRESSION
 An emotion will remain
unknown to a man until he
expresses it.
ART AS
Robin George Collingwod, an English
philosopher who is best known for his work
EXPRESSION
in aesthetics explicated in his publication The
Principle of Art (1938) that what an artist
does to an emotion is not to include it, but
express it.

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 VISUAL ARTS

Kind of art form that the population is most Some mediums of visual arts include
likely more exposed to, but its variations are paintings, drawings, lettering,
so diverse — they range form sculptures that
you see in art galleries. printing, sculptures, digital imaging,
and more
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 FILM
• Refers to the art of putting
together successions of still
images in order to create an
illusion movement

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 PERFORMANCE
ART
• Is a live art and the artist
medium is mainly the human
body which he or she used to
perform but also employs
other kind of art such as
visual art, props, or sound

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 POETRY
PERFORMANCE
• Is an art where the artist
expresses his emotions not
by using paint, charcoal, or
camera but expresses them
through words.

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 ARCHITECTURE
• Making of beautiful buildings
• Some buildings only embody
the functionality, but the
structure, lines, forms, and
colors are not beautifully
expressed.
• Buildings should embody these
three important elements—
plan, construction, and design.
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 LITERARY ART
• Uses words to express themselves
and communicate emotions to the
readers.
• 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.
• novels, biographies, and poems

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 THEATER
• Uses live performers to present
accounts or imaginary events
before a live audience.
• Follows a script, considers
several elements such as acting,
gesture, lighting, sound effects,
musical score, scenery, and props.
• Participation of the viewer is an
important element in theater arts.

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 APPLIED ARTS
• Incorporating elements of style
and design to everyday items with
the aim of increasing their
aesthetical value.
• Industrial design, interior design,
fashion design, and graphic design
are considered applied arts.
• Artists can combine functionality
and style.

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