Art App Prelim Lessons 4 5

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LESSONS 4 & 5
Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination and Expression.
Common Art Expressions

Appreciating Art
In art history, you are required to learn and describe what
you perceive from the designed elements and the “The Voyage Bed” 2010
composition of an art work. In art appreciation it is a
particular response to a certain work of art and sometimes
can be compared to another. Sometimes using your mind’s
eyes you can also compare and contrast between and
among artists and their works of art. Others can appreciate “Mona Lisa” 1503
art thru its immersion on functionality and purpose. You “Alkaff Bridge” 2004
may even decide to go farther from your place to see and
explore the fascinating world of art and it’s beautiful
collection of human experience from the past thousands of
years.
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Creativity
Appreciating Art
CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION AND EXPRESSIONS
Art is directly connected with creativity though not exclusively since
creativity is a relevant component of art because you do not just put
materials together. Paint, matter body movement, ideas, etc. are done
across other fields o human activity that happen to be related to the
art activity. You are doing more than just combining ideas together in
the creative arts encourages the psychological process of feelings and
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thought patterns of the artist about some aspects of the world.
I may also invoke the artist’s idea of their place in the world and why they do their art. But
once the art is released to the public, it can also set off similar complicated conscious and
subconscious thought as feelings in the observers. Though this may vary from one audience
to another, the meaning may not be the same as the artist’s own personal impressions.
Creativity
Appreciating Art
MAIN COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
• ORIGINALITY The method or idea must be new and unique. It should not be the extension of
something, which already exists. However, one can take inspiration from the already existent
methods and ideas to fabricate something new and unique.
• FUNCTIONALITY – A creative idea must work and produce results, otherwise, the whole
effort will be in vain.
QUALITIES CREATIVE PEOPLE – creative people are energetic physically and mentally utilizing it
to conceptualize ideas. They too are intelligent. Though high level of IQ is a plus, most people
are intelligent enough in creative thinking and smart to create new ideas. Famous artist’s would
say that a childlike attitude view things creatively. Discipline, creativity happens unexpectedly,
so whenever an artist is under any circumstances, he or she is ready to somehow make a note
or record the ideas in anyway possible.
Appreciating Art Creativity

4 TYPES OF CREATIVITY
1. Deliberate and Cognitive Creativity – People who possess deliberate and cognitive
characteristics are purposeful. They have a great amount of knowledge about a particular
subject and combine their skills and capabilities to prepare a course of action to achieve
something. This type of creativity built when people work for a very long time in a particular
area.
2. Deliberate and Emotional Creativity – Their creativity is always a balanced product of
deliberate emotional thinking and logical actions. This type of creativity is found in the
amygdala and cingulate cortex parts of the human brain. Amygdala is responsible for human
emotions whereas cingulate cortex helps in learning and information processing. This type
of creativity happens to people at random moments. Those moments are usually referred
to as “a-ha!” moments when someone suddenly thinks of a solution to some problem or
think of some innovative idea.
Appreciating Art Creativity

4 TYPES OF CREATIVITY
3. Spontaneous and Cognitive Creativity – There are times when you spend a long time to crack a
problem but can’t think of any solution or think of any possible way. But when you are having your
relaxation time and suddenly everything falls in place. This inspiration was from the great
scientist Isaac Newton. He got the idea about the law of gravity when an apple hit his head
while he was sitting under a tree and relaxing and it became Newton’s “Eureka” moments.
4. Spontaneous and Emotional Creativity – Epiphany is a sudden realization of something is
responsible for a creative scientific breakthrough, religious and also philosophical
discoveries. This allows the enlightened person to look at a problem or situation with a
different and deeper viewpoint. Those moments are defined as rare moments when
great discoveries take place. There is no need to have specific knowledge for “spontaneous and
emotional” creativity to happen but there should be a skill to put it into records such as writing,
musical or artistic. This type of creativity can’t be obtained by working on it.

Imagination
Appreciating Art
Imagination is very much associated with creativity since it is
through imagination where ideas, feelings or images are initially put
together in the artist’s mind. The imagination of the artist may be in
the form of imaging or picturing, feeling, or thinking what the work
of art will become. The artists may also use their imagination on the
possible alternatives to what they have finished at every step of the
process. From here, the public viewers would perhaps use their own “Starry Night” 1889
imagination to understand the artist’s work, which could be verbally
difficult to explain.

Imagination
Appreciating Art
8 SUBSEQUENT IMAGINATION IN ART
1. Effectuated Imagination 5. Strategic Imagination
2. Intellectual or Constructive Imagination 6. Emotional Imagination
3. Imaginative Fantasy 7. Dreams
4. Empathy 8. Memory Reconstruction
EFFECTUATED IMAGINATION – Allows the artists to synthesize existing ideas together from
existing information.
INTELLECTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE IMAGINATION – The artist is able to work from an existing
plan or a definite idea and is guided towards a distinct purpose. Intellectual imagination is a
very conscious and deliberate process.

Imagination
Appreciating Art
IMAGINATIVE FANTASY – This is when you’re able to generate new ideas from scratch and
can be guided or unguided. This is what most writers and artists are good at. We usually
have a moment of inspiration and go off to explore wherever the fantasy may take us.
EMPATHY – This is a capacity that human beings have to mentally detach from ourselves and
experience what another person is experiencing from their point of view. It allows us to take
an imaginative stroll in someone else’s shoes.
STRATEGIC IMAGINATION – This is primarily concerned with ‘what could be…’ scenario. It’s
the ability to spot opportunities and visualize what might happen if you were to take them.
People who have an excellent strategic imagination will have a realistic understanding of
their own skills, and be able to spot opportunities to develop.

Imagination
Appreciating Art
EMOTIONAL IMAGINATION – An artist has to be aware of our emotions and the emotions of
human beings more generally. The artists has to know how to create or project fear, how to
create sadness, laughter and how the artist’s possess the ability to play on those emotions
to generate form and structure that plays into this facet of audience’s mindsets.
DREAMS – These are an unconscious form of imagination that we do when we’re asleep.
Scientists are still deciding what these crazy little night visions are all about — but for those
of us that dream, it can be a fun and sometimes scary way to access our imagination
interpret them in an art form.
MEMORY RECONSTRUCTION – When we retrieve our memories of people, objects and
events we use our imagination to regenerate the images. Memories are subconscious stored
bits of information dragged into our conscious brain and our imagination often fills the gaps
where memory hasn’t been curated properly.
Expression
Appreciating Art
Expression is something that is usually mechanical. It is basic to everyone
thoughts or feelings. We cannot avoid expressing who we are in every
thought and feeling but until we indicate our internal states through actions.
Emotional expression in art is preceded by a perturbation or excitement
from a vague cause about which the artist is uncertain and therefore
anxious. The artist then proceeds to express feelings and ideas in words or
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paint or stone or the like, clarifying them and achieving a release of tension.
One view of emotional expression in art is that it is preceded by a perturbation or excitement from a
vague cause about which the artist is uncertain and therefore anxious. The work of art that the artist
went through any expressive process or through any process whatever in the genesis of it is revealed at
the end of it, is the expression that may lead to the inner thoughts of the individual expectations and
interpretations.
Expression
Appreciating Art
ARTIST’S EXPRESSIONS
Expression of Feelings – natural release or reaction.
Expression of Beliefs and Ideas – philosophical interpretation.
Expression of Character – expressing the nature of things.
*STAGES OF CREATION OF ARTWORK

 Preparation
 Incubation
 Inspiration
 Elaboration

Expression
Appreciating Art
CATEGORIES IN EXPRESSING ART
VISUAL ARTS – Is a major field in art that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics,
sculpture architecture, video productions, crafts, and photography.
LITERARY ARTS – In Oxford dictionary, literature is literally “acquaintance with letters”. It
originates from the Latin word littera meaning “an individual written character”. Literary art
is a combined discipline of ideation, literary appreciation, and creative writing, which in
Western culture is mainly prose (both fiction and nonfiction), drama, and poetry.
PERFORMING ARTS – Are forms of art such as music, dance or drama. In this category, artists
is using voices, and physical body to convey message or artistic expression. This kind of art is
in contrast with the visual and literary arts where the product is an object that does not
require performance to be observed and experienced.
Expression
Appreciating Art
CATEGORIES IN EXPRESSING ART
CINEMATIC ARTS / VIDEO ARTS – A visual language is the use of portraying stories in moving
images is called movie or video. Cinematic arts is a combination of many disciplines and
crafts to produce a more realistic emotional experience.
DIGITAL ARTS – Just like the cinematic and video arts, digital arts is a new emerging
expression of motion pictures. The only difference of the latter is the use of sophisticated
tools like the computer. Initially, digital arts is solely used for photography enhancement until
the emergence of video games. Today digital arts serves tremendous purpose in the field of
the industry like advertising and software development.

To conclude:
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same
time.”
–Thomas Merton

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Appreciating Art Creativity

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