Art Imagination,

Expression,
Creativity,
Assumptions,
Misconceptions,
and
Philosophy of Art
MR. HARRYL JAY L. ONDO, LPT
Instructor, Art Appreciation
Intended Learning Outcomes

❖ Discuss the nature of art

❖ Clarify misconceptions about art
❖ Determine the assumptions of art
❖ Distinguish direct and indirect functions
of art
❖ Characterize artistic expression based on
personal experience
❖ Apply concepts and theories on beauty
and aesthetics in real life scenarios
 Quote
Analysis
Art Imagination

❖ Art is part of life

❖ Imagination is an abstraction of a
certain thought or feeling based
on reality or experience (Hollick,
2014); while expression is an
automated response to it.
Art Expression
When both means and ends are…

❖ Constructive: enhance not only the

individual’s quality of life essential but
also the life of others and the nation.

❖ Destructive: result to misery, hinder

progress, promote chaos, and bring
imminent danger to society.
Etymology and Definition
Ars (Latin) – skill, talent, ability

➢ skill in making or doing something

(World Book Encyclopedia, 1995)

➢ expression of the creative skill and

imagination in different genres for
appreciation of beauty and emotional
power (Oxford, 2020)
Misconceptions of Art
❖ Someone is an artist and
the others are not
▪ every individual has a talent
▪ we are skillful in everything that we do
that ends with good purpose

❖ Only for the rich and famous

▪ No bifurcation according to status
▪ Humans are capable of rationalization
Misconceptions of Art

❑ We fail to ✓ Stop this

recognize complacency

❑ Lethargy ✓ Hone our

dictating us imagination to
not to do it its maximum
potential
Creativity and Art Appreciation

Imagination
• allows us to be creative, to create
scientific inventions and aesthetic.

Creativity
• metacognitive; divergent thinking
• unstructured free flowing process to
capacitate the body and create art.
Creativity and Art Appreciation

• Gives us pleasure

• Allows us to imagine our past

experiences

• Draws our feelings to appreciate

beauty
Creativity and Art Appreciation
• Craft without art is awful with no
appreciation.

• When craft is subjected to mechanical

and systemic routine, production
process is dull and repetitive.

• Artists in industries must continue to

imagine latest product innovations,
designs, packaging and marketing.
Art and Craft
Art Craft
form of work
an expression of
Inocian, with the use of
feelings and
2019 available
emotions
materials
Beautiful, rather More useful than
useful beautiful
Zulueta, Expression of Realization of
1994 imagination expression
Utilitarian and
Psychological
Mechanical
Explicit expression of feelings
from the imagined core and
peripheral issues is the
“magic recipe” of art.
Philosophy of Art
Plato

➢ An artists’ work is nothing

but a copy (mimesis) of the
original object that is found
in the world of ideas and
forms.
➢ Arts is inferior to science
and philosophy.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Philosophy of Art

Aristotle

➢ Representation of reality
➢ Imitation of human life
➢ Artist’s unique way of
capturing the image of
reality in his own terms.
➢ Catharsis – purgation of
one’s emotions
 “Every art, and every inquiry and similarly
every action and choice, is ought to aim at
some good; and for this reason the good has
rightly been declared to be at which all things
aim.”

- Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics

Philosophy of Art

School of Athens
by Raphael
Philosophy of Art
Immanuel Kant

➢ Second nature to man

➢ No reason to engage
in art but the act itself
➢ Artists shouldn’t have
justification for their
work
➢ Freedom in one’s art
 “All industries, crafts, and arts have gained
by the division of labor, viz., one man does
not do everything, but each confines himself
to a certain kind of work that is distinguished
from all kinds by the treatment it requires, so
that the work may be done with highest
perfection and with greater ease.”

- Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphyics of Morals

Philosophy of Art

Immanuel Kant

➢ Focus to succeed
➢ Artist’s fulfillment when he
accomplishes it the way he
wanted it to be
➢ Fame and recognition are
only secondary
Philosophical Themes in Art

Integrity – faithfulness to one’s principle

An artist’s work follows its own truth and

is not swayed by other people’s motives.

“Beauty is enhanced by unashamed

irregularities; magnificence by a facade of
blunder”
Philosophical Themes in Art

Proportion – consonance; balance or

consistency of elements

For effect – to emphasize a certain

element in the work.
Philosophical Themes in Art

Radiance – clarity; meaning or impact

upon the observer

When a viewer looks at an artwork for

instance, his attention is caught by the
object immediately as he lays his eyes
on it.
“We make objects beautiful to understand
ourselves. Art, then, must be a part of any
exploration of the good life.”
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