Republic of the Philippines

Province of Cebu
City of Talisay
TALISAY CITY COLLEGE
Poblacion, Talisay City, Cebu
2nd Semester, Academic Year 2020-2021

GEART (HUM 1): ART APPRECIATION

Course Facilitator Paul James T. Dagatan Department Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Course Description
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Final Unit Outcome
Credit Units 3.0
Art appreciation is a three-unit course that develops students’ ability to appreciate,
analyze and critique works of art. Through interdisciplinary and multimodal
approaches, this course equips students with a broad knowledge of the practical,
historical, philosophical and social relevance of the arts in order to hone students’
ability to articulate their understanding of the arts.
Develop the ability to appreciate and understand the practical, historical,
philosophical and social relevance of arts by designing their own portfolio of art
works through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches.
Develop artistic ability in the form of portfolio of art works or project tasks
through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches.

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Course Material 5 Soul Making

CONTENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
❖ Introduction to Soul making At the end of this material, you will…
❖ Categories of Soul making ✓ Identify terms in soul making.
❖ 5 Phases of Soul making ✓ Reflect on the pictures or artworks through essay
❖ Soul making: Making and Deriving Meaning from writing.
Art ✓ Create a portfolio on the Artworks submitted
❖ Improvisation and Appropriation
❖ 7 da Vincian Principles
ENGAGE
As Dr. Norman Narciso, one of the leading Filipino thought leaders in the art world, deeply explains
soul making, "Soul making is an alternate place to know oneself and to look at the depths and meaning of what we
do in our daily lives.” Soul making is a step towards a deeper comprehension of how the world is perceived and
how his or her own personality is seen.
Question: What do you think is the artist’s feeling when he/she painted the picture? Why you say so?

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EXPLORE
Soul making plays a major role in art-production; it is a form of crafting stories, transforming brief moments
into images, symbols that connect with people, understanding culture and embodying tolerance, peace, and
imagination.
Knowing oneself
In soul making, "who are you" is the topic that throughout the process serves as a guidepost. Knowing
oneself begins with consciousness. In order to start the process, it is necessary to realize and embrace
one's truth, history and understanding of existence. With this new found insight, art, which is actually the
very core of soul-making, can now come into play. Therefore, it is not so much the production that is
mostly taken into account, but the method of perceiving anything.

Depths and essence

Soul making is more than the soul's religious perspective. Soul refers to a person's individuality that
resonates with his or her behavior. Since art is a human expression that is highly valued and symbolic, a
person typically uses different art forms to fulfill the need to communicate and express him or herself.
The human desire to actualize his or her very being is strongly assisted by soul making.

What we are doing

Art gives a person a sense of purpose about what he or she is doing. As any artwork is an expression of
one's perceptions, feelings, emotions, and realities, the key to personal cultural growth is the process of
creating such expression. Soul making utilizes every human experience to build the influence that can
make the artist himself and others improve.

Everyday life
includes a lot of adventure, understanding the challenges that come with each adventure, and
understanding how each person has a unique way of perceiving things as life happens to them. Soul
making is a method that can be gone through by anyone. As all are creative in their own right, it is not
limited to the "obviously artistic". It's just a matter of losing yourself in the art of viewing the world from
a different perspective and detaching yourself from yourself.

Categories of Soul Making

1. Crafting Images –Crafting images includes the production, by various forms and methods, of visual
representations of images. Any art form such as drawing, sketching, and sculpting can be used to perform
this process. Dancing, poetry (or black-out poetry), musical instrument playing, and even filmmaking may
also do this

2. Crafting Stories – He or she is already creating stories when an individual writes down his or her own personal
feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even high and low emotions. Similar to crafting images,
he or she may be portrayed by different means when one craft story is presented. Stories can be relayed via
vivid photos, calming music, and impactful sentences.

3. Crafting Instruments – Crafting instruments are treated as "a bridge to the unknown because the instrument
creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions, and sensations. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so
that the soul will not disappear." Instruments help people explore the magic behind music and its unique
impact on a person. Such musical instruments can establish the soul's harmonious sustenance and the mind's
balance.

4. Crafting Movements – Life is movement, according to Dr. Narciso (2016). [One's] life is full of different
rhythms. "Our life is full of movements, it is full of different rhythms, life is full of flowing images accompanied
by narratives, and this melodic flow symbolizes how the universe gives every human being the ability in their
respective lives to experience the highs and lows." For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement,
the pattern that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration.

5. Crafting Techniques – Crafting techniques in soul making are the artist's reflection of his life and experiences
in any piece of art. The approach, preferably, should be methodological. A soul maker, though, when he
executes his creative expression, is unbounded.

5 Phases of Soul Making

1. Seeking – The first step is seeking or finding. At this point, we recognize that each of us who are interested
in our own growth and the ways of our world is a 'seeker.' We are looking for a discipline or method that can
help us live in and make sense of the world and heal the wounds of 'self.'

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 The best thing about searching is that it is a vital stage in our growth as soul builders. It gives us the tools to
live our lives, and if we systematically look, we find that in some integral sense, these tools and practices can
be fitted together, allowing us to settle down, moving us on to a practice or cluster of practices that satisfy
our creativity and passion, and that we can then spend time perfecting.

2. Settling – Soul making is about communicating as profoundly as possible with the soul, with other human
and non-human beings (and this means the future of humans and non-humans) and with the world. If we are
perpetually wondering, we cannot do this. We must find ourselves settled at some point in our lives.

3. Surrender – If it is permitted to surrender, with all its pain and vulnerability, something magical will happen.
We tend to note in the midst of the crashing that our activities begin to be in the service of the soul. The
capacity to surrender, of course, is restricted by the amount of pain and uncertainty that we can bear! True
surrender takes us up and throws us down; calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted; forces us to spend
time living in the darkness.

4. Soul making – At some point in the variations between the Settling and Surrender dual polarities, we begin
to perceive our practice and life in the universe as Soul Making. We are beginning to become an expert, an
injured healer. We're starting to grow up enough to feed our girls, our children, our children. We accept that
there's no way to ever get it right.

Soul Making is the fourth stage, in which the individual transitions from a stage of improving reflective
practice to becoming a practitioner of soul making. However, this is still not to be completely settled in, since
it holds all the strengths and disadvantages of the previous levels. Both of us have to keep looking.
Throughout life, we all settle and re-settle. We would all be met with the psyche 's appeal for submission,
over and over again. And it will constantly call upon our capacity to care and nurture (others and the world).

5. Soaring – When we begin the journey, what we most wish is to soar. To conquer our worldly experience's
material realities-to travel. It will not happen, however, if we only want to fly, nor can the psychological
version of a spaceship or airplane be created by ourselves. What may be true is that we could find ourselves
soaring, together, engulfed in the air and sky, by enabling ourselves to pass through the stages of Soul
Making.

Soul making: Making and Deriving Meaning from Art

Semantics and grammatical rules are essential elements to remember in order for human beings to
make sense of language and derive meanings from words. Apart from this, it is often known that meaning
and symbolisms view and evaluate either verbal or written works. In terms of art, it would involve
understanding the visual elements on which art was focused, particularly the concepts of design, in order for
people to make sense of the work. It is important to remember that the viewer must have a certain degree
of understanding of the work 's style, shape, and material. It would be impossible to appreciate the visual
arts in their fullness and completeness without such understanding.

Improvisation
It is possible to describe improvisation as doing something without previous planning. There is a decision to
act upon something that might not be expected necessarily. Improvisation has become an important part of the
arts within the present context. Some would claim that during the twentieth century, it was a response to the
stiffness of the arts. There is a call for emancipation from monotony aimed at rekindling people's creative spirits
in the arts.

Infusing spontaneity and improvisation add up to the totality of the work of art for certain artists. The
unpredictability of the changes brought on by improvisation enables the artwork to have a distinctive quality that
creates its identity and uniqueness. The principle of allowing opportunities in the process of making the work is
supported by some artists. Artists would like, for instance, to depict the darkness brought on at night by an
incoming storm or the beauty of a meteor shower. Since they do not inherently have total influence over natural
phenomena, their dependency on opportunities may not necessarily deliver their anticipated result. Artists who
encourage their subjects to improvise can often have entirely different outcomes.

Appropriation
Throughout history, appropriation of art has been a common occurrence. In the past, an apprentice painter
would be able to use his master 's work to copy if he wanted to hone his skills in his art. It is as if the apprentice is
attempting to explore what he is more familiar with through his personal application of techniques. There are,
however, several individuals who have reached the extreme by assuming that an artist 's exact artwork is
replicated and credited to himself. This could pose a problem with authorship in particular. The issue occurs when
the artist of appropriation gets bits and pieces from other works and incorporates these elements into his own
work. Furthermore, when appropriation artists escape responsibility for putting the specifics of other works and

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 incorporating them into their own, with that of the appropriation artist, their voices and perceptions of the other
artists are lost.

A very thin demarcation line seems to exist between the art of appropriation and forgery. Forgery can
historically be categorized into two forms: outright copies of existing works and pastiches, which are works that
incorporate elements of a work and infuse them into a new work. But forgery may be in the form of making an
interpretation of what an artist might do by prediction in contemporary times. This can be accomplished by
studying the techniques and style used by the artist and also the focal points highlighted in his past and present
works. Since problems of plagiarism or forgery often arise, the motives of the appropriation artists are sometimes
challenged. Some would say that the purpose behind the appropriation is that they want the audience to
remember the images they replicated. There is a desire on the artist's part that the audiences will see a new take
on the original work

7 da Vincian Principles
What does it mean to be genius? Is genius born or made – or both? The idea of "genius thinking" can sound
rather overwhelming, but you'll be pleased to find that it's simpler and a lot more enjoyable than you thought. The
method of Leonardo will affirm many of your own strongest intuitions as to how you can access your own ability.
Here are the seven genius principles of Leonardo da Vinci that will open your imaginative aorta and unleash your
genius.

1. Curiosità – is an insatiably curious approach to life and unrelenting quest for continuous learning. Da Vinci
was not the only one to represent a nearly unlimited supply of curiosity. Some of the great inventors and
leaders of humanity have the ability to unlock life's mysteries. think about curiosity in 2 basic questions:
✓ What If: Ask your brain to project into the future. It encourages you to see options where you might
have overlooked them, it allows you to make connections and it is a sneaky way to get your brain
more goal oriented. What if I started this person's conversation? What if I attempted a new activity
like this? What if I began the new schedule of workouts? Usually, what happens after 'what if...' is
mystical.
✓ How Come: How come brings you to 'Why'. Instead of watching the environment passively or going
through reflex replies, 'how come' makes you challenge both your actions and the intentions of
others. Da Vinci didn't waste his life for a second. He was making and guessing and tinkering all the
time. 'How come' allows you to use a mission every second of your life.

2. Dimostrazione – is a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence and a willingness to

learn from mistakes. Dimostrazione is the embodiment of your own hands controlling your life. This principle
tells us:
a. Test every idea.
b. Don’t take anything for granted.
c. Experience life first hand.
For instance, If I take this personal growth lesson, then I expect to be healthier. Or as simple as if I
were reorganizing my wardrobe, then in the morning it would be easier to get dressed. The 'If ..., then ...'
exercise places you in the mood of chance-hunting, so you still look for and try alternatives

3. Sensazione – is the continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience.

Here are some ways you can capture more Sensazione:

A Sense a Day: Plan out 5 experiences in the next few months where you practice honoring each of your
senses.
• For smell, go to the local botanical gardens, make your own perfume or cologne and learn to
recognize herbs by their scent at the local grocery store.
• For taste, (this one is easy!) eat a bunch of your favorite foods and try one new cuisine. Figure out
your favorite spice.
• For sight, go to your local museum, then hike to a vista or view point and learn some new
photography techniques.
• For touch, go to your local animal shelter and volunteer petting pups and kitties. Go through your
closet and organize it by fabric. Go shopping and try to buy one new fabric you have never owned
before.
• For hearing, go to a concert, stop by your local music store and try to play an instrument you have
never heard before. If you are really ambitious, try to learn bird mating calls or spend some time
trying to draw sound. For example, if you had to draw the sound of a trumpet, how would you do
it?

4. Sfumato – is a willingness to embrace confusion, paradox, and confusion. Da Vinci had a very special capacity
to comprehend the extreme opposites of views and phenomena. He was also able to explore and revel in the
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 uncertainty of unknowns. Most of us are uncomfortable with questions not being known or unanswerable,
so we avoid anything beyond our control. We stick to what we know and do a Google search right away the
moment we don't know something.

Here are some ways you can capture more Sfumato:

• Stop Googling: For the next week, anytime you need to look up a word or trivia fact, try to guess
the answer instead. You can phone a friend for help as well, as long as they brainstorm with you
too!
• Embrace Your Ambiguity: List some situations from your life where you are confused or feel
ambiguous about an outcome and explore the feelings that come up.
• Cultivate Confusion Endurance: Tap into your own paradoxes by asking questions like, “How are
my strengths and weaknesses related?” or “What is the relationship between my saddest
moments and the most joyful ones?”

5. Arte/Scienza – is the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. Although
Da Vinci was not around for the right and left brain learning experiments, this notion speaks directly to the
whole brain thinking idea.

Label the declarations that sound like you:

Right Brained: ___ I like details ___ I am almost always on time ___ I rely on logic ___ I am skilled at math ___
I am organized and disciplined ___ I like lists

Left Brained: ___ I am highly imaginative ___ I am good at brainstorming ___ I love to doodle ___ I often say
or do the unexpected ___ I rely on intuition ___ I often lose track of time

6. Corporalitá - The cultivation of beauty, inborn talent, fitness and poise is called Corporalita. In addition to his
intellectual ability, Da Vinci was unbelievably athletic. From early on, he knew that his body also had to be in
top shape if he wanted his mind to work at optimum levels.

Here are some ways you can capture more Corporalita:

• Learn the Science of Eating: I did a whole post on the science of eating on some really easy ways
to make your food intake more purposeful.
• Get on a Sleep Schedule: Everyone has different sleep needs and different sleep rhythms. For the
next week, track your sleep times and hours and see which days you have the most energy. Are
you a night worker? A morning person? Learn your cycles and then honor them by building a sleep
routine.
• Cultivate Ambidexterity: Da Vinci used both his right and left hands as he worked. You can do this
by trying to brush your teeth with your non dominant hand or get a really patient person to play
a game of pool, tennis or catch where you switch hands!

7. Connessione – is a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena.

Here are some ways you can capture more Connessione:

• What’s Your Book Outline? If you had to create a table of contents for a book about your life, what would
it be if you couldn’t make it chronological?

• 3 Objects: Pick 3 random objects in your house. If you had to find connections between them, what would
they be? For example, I chose my blender, my garage clicker and a bottle of nail polish. Can you think of three
connections? I thought: With all three of these things, the faster they work, the better. The faster the blender,
the better the smoothie, the faster the garage door opens, the faster I get home and the faster my polish
dries, the less risk there is of my mushing up my toe nails. This is a great one to play with kids!

Art Appreciation Soul Making

By: StuDocu
https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/st-michaels-college-iligan/art-appreciation/lecture-notes/module-4-lesson-1-art-
appreciation-soul-making/10824645/view

Supplementary Material/s:
Art Appreciation | Study Guide | https://quizlet.com/349255331/art-appreciation-chapter-7-flash-cards/
Making soul | Study Guide | https://medium.com/soul-making/making-soul-a-developmental-path-to-consider-
aec8794b4ae7
Da Vincian Principle | Video | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-597dTudC0

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 KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING
Assessment Task 1 Identification
Identify the term described in each item. Write your answer on the
Instructions:
space provided before each number.
1. Read and Comprehend each sentence in each number.
Help Guide 2. Identify the terms described
3. Write your answer on the space provided.
Your
Rating/
Basis for Rating:
Total
70
Points

_________________________1. He is one of the leading Filipino thought leaders in the art world.
_________________________2. This principle is the unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
_________________________3. An artist's reflection of his life and experiences in any piece of art.
_________________________4. An alternate place to know oneself and to look at what we do in our
daily lives.
_________________________5. This principle is an appreciation for the interconnectedness of all
things and phenomena.
_________________________6. It is a vital stage in our growth as soul builders.
_________________________7. A decision to act upon something without previous planning.
_________________________8. An art gets bits and pieces from other works and incorporates these
elements into his own work.
_________________________9. It is a willingness to embrace confusion, paradox, and confusion.
_________________________10. Soul making that help people explore the magic behind music and its
unique impact on a person.
_________________________11. It is about communicating with other human and non-human beings
and with the world.
_________________________12. The cultivation of beauty, inborn talent, fitness and poise.
_________________________14. It is a commitment to test knowledge and a willingness to learn from
ASSESS

mistakes
_________________________15. The universe gives every human being the ability in their respective
lives to experience the highs and lows.

CRITICAL THINKING
Assessment Task 2 Reflective Essay
Choose 4 pictures and describe yourself based on the 4 pictures you.
Instructions:
Write your answer in a separate file or sheet of paper.
1. Choose 4 pictures either of the following: picture of yourself,
your family, friends, pet, or things.
Help Guide 2. Describe yourself based on the pictures you chose.
3. Create at least 1 paragraph on each picture.
4. Write your answers in a separate file or sheet.
Your Rating/
Basis for Rating: Rubric
Total Points
80

10-9 points 8-7 points 6-4 points 3-1 point

CATEGORY
Above Standards Meets Standards Approaching Standards Below Standards
Organized; points
Good organization; Some organization; Poorly; no logical
are somewhat
points are logically points jump around; progression;
Organization jumpy; sense of
ordered; sharp sense beginning and beginning and
beginning and
of beginning and end ending are clear ending are vague
ending
Details are
Some detail is non-
Quality of Supporting detail somewhat sketchy, Unable to find
supporting to the
Information specific to subject do not support the specific details
subject
topic

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 CREATING
Assessment Task 3 Personal Artworks Exhibit
Make a coffee painting that represents your idea either joy, sadness or
Instructions: anger during this pandemic. Create it in a separate sheet of paper.
AFTER MAKING THIS, COMPILE ALL YOUR ARTWORKS IN A FOLDER.
1. In a separate sheet of paper, do a coffee painting that would
represent either joy, sadness or anger during the pandemic.
Help Guide
2. After making your artwork, compile your artworks into a folder
as your portfolio.
Rubric:
20-17 points 16-13 points 12-9 points 8-5 points 4-1 point
CATEGORY
Extraordinary Above average Average Below average Poor
The artwork is The artwork is The art work is The artwork shows The artwork shows
planned carefully; planned carefully; planned little evidence of no understanding
understanding of all understanding of adequately; understanding the of the concepts and
Understanding concepts and most concepts and understanding of concepts and instructions.
instructions is clearly instructions is shown. some concepts instructions.
shown. and instructions
shown.
The artwork shows The artwork shows The artwork The artwork shows The artwork shows
outstanding good craftmanship, shows average below average poor craftmanship
Craftsmanship/
craftsmanship, with with some attention craftmanship and craftmanship and and no attention to
Skill
clear attention to to detail. attention to little attention to detail.
detail, detail. detail.
The artwork The artwork The artwork The artwork The artwork lacks
demonstrates demonstrates some demonstrates an demonstrates little evidence of
Creativity/ original personal personal expression average amount personal personal
Originality expression and and logical problem- of personal expression and expression.
outstanding problem- solving skills. expression. problem-solving
solving skills. skills.
The student put forth The student put forth The student put The student put The student put
extraordinary effort the effort required to forth the effort forth the effort forth no effort or
to complete the complete the project required to finish required to finish the project was not
Effort
project well as well; used time well. the project; used the project; used completed; time
possible; used time time adequately. time adequately. was not used well.
extremely well.
SOURCES/REFERENCES
Thorp, S. (2017, April 29). Making soul – a developmental path to consider. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/385C7Si
Balt, A. (2014, April 4). 7 Steps to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: The Guide to Everyday Genius.
Mugadonna (2008, February 7). How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/36fJsw7 7 Steps
to Genius. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3lbLzar
C-pamie (Producer). (2020, July 26). SOUL MAKING.pptx [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4f5Ey6g0kc
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