Art Appreciation:

Creativity, Imagination
and Expression

Prepared By:
Group 2
Learning Outcomes

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1.Differentiate art from nature;
2.Characterize artistic expression based on personal experience
with art;
3.Discuss the nature of art’s preliminary expression; and
4.Categorize works of art by citing personal experiences
Our Daily Bread by Grudd Ana Andersdotter
The Lovers by Rene Magrette
Art Appreciation as a Way of Life
Jean Paul Sartre
-A famous French philosopher of the
20th century
-Described the role of art as a
creative work that depicts the world
in a completely different light and
perspective, and the source is due
to human freedom
 The Role of Creativity in Art Making

Creativity
-Requires thinking outside the box
-Often used to solve problems that have never occurred before, conflate
functions and style and simply make life a more unique and enjoyable
experience
-Sets apart one artwork from another
-A creative artist embraces originality
Art as a Product of Imagination,
Imagination as a Product of Art
Albert Einstein
-German physicist
-He demonstrated that knowledge is
actually derived from imagination
-“Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited to
all we know and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and
understand”
Imagination
-It is not constrained by the walls of the norm, but goes
beyond that.
-Through this, one is able to craft something bold, new and
better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate
change.
-Allows endless possibilities.
Art as Expression
Robin George Collingwood
-English Philosopher
-Best known for his work in aesthetics, explicated in
his publication The principles of art that what an
artist does to an emotion is not to induce it , but
express it
-Through expression, he is able to explore his own
emotions and create something beautiful out of them
 Forms of Art Expression
o Visual Art
o Film
o Performance Art
o Poetry Performance
o Architecture
o Dance
o Literary Art
o Theater Art
o Applied Art
Visual Art
-Creations that appeals to the sense of sight and are mainly
visual in nature.
-The kind of art form that the population is most likely more
exposed to, but its variations are so diverse
Mediums of Visual Arts
oPainting
oDrawings
oLetterings
oPrinting
oSculptures
oDigital Imaging
Film
-refers to the art of putting together
successions of still images in order to create
and illusion of movement
-Can be created by using one or a
combination of some or all of these
techniques:
oMotion picture camera (movie camera)
oAnimation Techniques
oComputer-generated Imagery
Important Elements of a Film
oLighting
oMusical Score
oVisual Effects
oDirection
 Performance Art
- A live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he
or she uses to perform
Important Elements
oTime
oWhere the performance took
place
oThe performer’s or
performer’s body
oRelationship between the
audience and the performer
 Poetry Performance
Poetry
-An art form where the artist
expresses his emotions through
words
-It uses a word’s emotional,
musical and spatial values that go
beyond its literal meaning to
narrate, emphasize, argue or
convince
 Architecture

- The making of beautiful buildings

Important Elements that a building

should embody to merit the title
architecture:
o Plan
o Construction
o Design
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
 Dance
- A series of movements that
follows the rhythm of the
music accompaniment
- A creative form that allows
people to freely express
themselves
 Literary Art
- Itfocuses on writing using a unique style, not following
a specific format or norm
- It may include both fiction and non-fiction such as
novels, biographies and poems
 Example of Famous Artist and their Works:

Antoine de Saint-Exupery William Shakespeare

 Theater
-uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience

Elements in Theater Genres of Theater

oActing oDrama
oGesture oMusical
oLighting oTragedy
oSound effects oComedy
oMusical score oImprovisation
oScenery
oProps

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

 Applied Arts
- Incorporating elements of style and design to
everyday items with the aim of increasing their
aesthetical value
- Artists in this field bring beauty, charm and
comfort into many things that are useful in
everyday life
- Industrial design, interior design, fashion design
and graphic design