ART APPRECIATION REVIEWER FOR EXAMINATION

CHAPTER 6: SOULMAKING, APPROPRIATION, AND IMPROVISATION

SOULAMKING
 DEFINITIONS
 Also known as artmaking
 is an alternative venue for knowing ourselves and looking into the depth and real meaning of
what we are doing for our everyday life.
 is an exploration and application of the imagination in an active way.
 One intention is to develop that artist in us.
 It has no time reference, it occurs anytime.
 Categories of Soulmaking
 Crafting Images
 Refers to imaging or representing in any form, which may be through painting,
sculpting, drawing, story-telling poetry, dancing, composing or taking notes.
 It is just like weaving, quilting, or doing crochet.
 Crafting Stories
 The moment we write, engrave, and inscribe our own thoughts, idea, commentaries,
criticism, and positive and negative emotions, we are crafting stories.
 Crafting Instruments
 An instrument maker is a bridge toward the unknown because the instrument
produces sounds that transcend our feelings, emotions, and sensation in another realm.
 Crafting Movements
 Our life is full of movements; it is filled with various beats. Life is full of flowing
images accompanied by flowing narratives.
 Crafting Techniques
 Anything can be crafted by using different evocative descriptions of experiences and
explorations.
A FRAMEWORK FOR GENIUS
 Curoisita (Curiosity)
 An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous ad
constant learning.
 Dimostrazione (Experiential)
 A commitment and dedication to test knowledge through experience, persistence,
and willingness to learn from mistakes.
 Sensazione (Sensory)
 The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven
experience.
 Sfumato (Trasnfiguration)
 A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
 Arte/Scienza (Balancing Art and Science)
 The development of the balance between science and art; logic and imagination.
“Whole brain” thinking.
 Corporalita (Balancing Mind and Body)
 The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, ad poise.
 Connessione (Systems Thinking)
 A recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and
phenomena.

APPROPRIATION
 It refers to borrowing images that are recognizable from different sources and using these borrowed
images to make a new art form.
 A means of experimentation by changing the context around the borrowed images and objects.
 To appropriate does not mean stealing or plagiarizing. It is not owning a particular work but just using
the artwork in the artist’s new context
 CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
 OBJECT APPROPRIATION
  This refers to appropriation of concrete and noticeable works of art. This happens
when a tangible work previously owned by people from one culture was taken and adopted by a
person or a group of persons from another culture.
 CONTENT APPROPRIATION
 Refers to adoption of works of art that are intangible. Examples of these works of art
are short stories, poetry, and musical compositions. This happens when an intangible work
previously expressed by people from one culture was adopted and used by a person or a group or
persons from another culture.
 A. Style Appropriation – Using elements from those works from another culture in
creating their own works.
 B. Motif Appropriation – Happens when artists are inspired by the art from a
different culture, but they do not produce artworks using exactly the same style.
 SUBJECT APPROPRIATION
 Occurs when a subject matter from another culture is appropriated. It may be
considered as the act of outsiders taking a subject matter that is meant by insiders only have access
to the elements of culture that they readily see and may be unaware of some other elements of
culture that are embedded and are not visible.