ROMULO B.

PARAS II, LPT

Instructor
Assumptions and
Nature of Arts
The HUMANITES
Lesson 1.2 : Art Appreciation -
Creativity, Imagination, and Expression

Philosophy

History Literature

ART/Humanities

Religion Language

Music
ART IMAGINATION & ART EXPRESSION

IMAGINATION – feeling that EXPRESSION – is automatic

produces a good art based response to imagination.
on reality or experience
Lesson 2
Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination, and Expression
No matter how perfectly blended the colors of a sunset are and no
matter how extraordinarily formed mountains are, nature is not
considered art simply because it is not made by man. Not even
photographs or sketches of nature, though captured or drawn by
man, are works of art, but mere recordings of the beauty in nature
(Collins & Riley 1931, 3).
We are able to distinguish what is fine
and beautiful from what is not, what has
good quality from poor, and that gives us
a role in the field of art appreciation.
ART FORMULA

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The Role of Creativity in Art Making

Creativity requires thinking outside the box.

Being creative nowadays can be quite challenging.
Art as a Product of Imagination,
Imagination as a Product of Art
Where do you think famous writers,
painters, and musicians get their
ideas from?
Where do ideas in making creative
solutions begin?
It all starts in the human mind.
It all begins with imagination.
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An artist has the freedom
to express herself the
way she wants to.
Hence, there is no
specific technique in
expression.
This makes people’s art
not a reflection of what is
outside or external to
them, but a reflection of
their inner selves.
Robin George Collingwood, The Principles of
Art (1938) - ”what an artist does to an emotion
is not to induce them, but express them
Through expressions, he is able to explore his
own emotions and at the same time, create
something beautiful out of it.”
Collingwood further illustrated that expressing
emotions is something different from
describing emotions. In his example, explicitly
saying “I am angry” is not an expression of an
emotion, but a mere description.
There are countless ways of expressing oneself through art
and below is a list of popular art expressions including, but is not
limited to the following:
 Performance Art
is live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which
he or she uses to perform, but also employs other kinds of art such
as visual art, props, or sound.
Poetry Performance
Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by
using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.
These words are carefully selected to exhibit clarity and beauty and to
simulate strong emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow, and the list goes
on. It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values that goes
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. Some poets even
make poems out of their emotions picked up from other works of art,
which in turn produces another work of art through poetry.
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