ART

APPRECIATION

CHAPTER 2
PROVERBS 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is
understanding.
 ART
APPRECIATION

CHAPTER 2
Presented by: Ms. Jonalyn B. Joel
 TOPIC OUTLINE
ART AS A PRODUCT OF
ART APPRECIATION IMAGINATION, IMAGINATION
AS A WAY OF LIFE AS A PRODUCT OF ART

THE ROLE OF ART AS EXPRESSION

CREATIVITY IN ART VISUAL ARTS / FILM /
PERFORMANCE ART / POETRY
MAKING PERFORMANCE / ARCHITECTURE /
DANCE / LITERARY ART /
THEATRE / APPLIED ARTS
ART APPRECIATION
AS A WAY OF LIFE
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. (Greene, 1995).

• Refining one’s ability to appreciate art allows him

to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and
recognize the beauty it possesses. (Collins & Riley,
1931).
 THE ROLE OF
CREATIVITY IN ART
MAKING
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY
IN ART MAKING
• Creativity requires thinking outside the box.
• In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork
from another.
• We say something is done creatively when we
have not yet seen anything like it or when it is out
of the ordinary.
• A creative artist does not simply copy or imitate
another artist’s work. He does not imitate the lines,
flaw, colors, and patterns in recreating nature. He
embraces originality, puts his own flavour into his
work, and calls it his own creative piece.
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY
IN ART MAKING
• Yet being creative nowadays can be quite
challenging.
• What you thought was your own unique and
creative idea may not what it seems to be after
extensive research and that someone else has
coincidentally devised before the idea in another
part of the world.
• Thus, creativity should be backed with careful
research on related art to avoid such conflicts.
ART AS A PRODUCT OF
IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION AS A
PRODUCT OF ART
ART AS A PRODUCT OF
IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION AS A
PRODUCT OF ART
• Where do you think famous writers, painters, and
musicians get their ideas?
• Where do ideas in making creative solutions begin?

IT ALL STARTS IN THE

HUMAN MIND.
IT ALL BEGINS WITH
IMAGINATION.
ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

• German physicist Albert Einstein who had made

significant and major contributions in science and
humanity demonstrated that knowledge is actually
derived from imagination. He emphasized this idea
through his words:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For

knowledge is limited to all we now know and
understand, while imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand.”
ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION,
IMAGINATION AS A PRODUCT OF ART

• Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm,

but goes beyond that. That is why people rely on curiosity
and imagination for advancement.
• In an artist’s mind sits a vast gallery of artwork. An
artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be
something that is imaginary (Collingwood, 1938).
However, something imaginary does not necessarily mean
it cannot be called art.
• Artist use their imagination that gives birth to reality
through creation.
• In the same way that imagination produces art, art also
inspires imagination.
ART AS EXPRESSION
VISUAL ARTS / FILM /
PERFORMANCE ART / POETRY /
PERFORMANCE / ARCHITECTURE /
DANCE / LITERARY ART /
THEATRE / APPLIED ARTS
ART AS EXPRESSION
• There may have been times when you felt something is
going on within you, you try to explain it but you do not
know how. You may only be conscious about feeling this
sort of excitement, fear agitation, but you know that just one
word is not enough to describe the nature of what you truly
feel. Finally, you try to release yourself from this tormenting
and disabling state by doing something, which is called
expressing oneself (Collinwood, 1938).
• Suppose this feeling is excitement it is frustrating to contain
such feeling, so you relieve it by expressing through
shouting or leaping in excitement. An emotion will remain
unknown to a man until he expresses it.
ART AS EXPRESSION
• Robin George Collingwood, an English philosopher
who is best known for his work in aesthetics, explicit in
his publication The Principles of Art (1938) that what an
artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express
it.
• Collingwood further illustrated that expressing emotions
is something different from describing emotions. An
artist has the freedom to express himself the way he
wants to. Hence, there is no specific technique in
expression. This makes people’s art not a reflection of
what is outside or external to them, but a reflection of
their inner selves.
EXPRESSIONS
OF ART
 VISUAL ARTS
• Creations that fall under this category are
those that appeal to the sense of sight and are
mainly visual in nature. Artist produce visual
arts driven be their desire to reproduce things
that they have seen in the way that they
perceived from (Collins & Riley, 1931). Some
mediums of visual arts include paintings,
drawings, letterings, printing, sculptures,
digital imaging, and more.
FILM
• Films refers to the art of putting together
successions of their images in order to create
an illusion of movement. Filmmaking focuses
on its aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is
considered as both an art and an industry.
• Filmmaking simulates experiences or create
one that is beyond the scope of our imagination
as it aims to deliver ideas, feelings, or beauty to
its viewers.
 PERFORMANCE
ART
• Performance art is a live art and that the
artist’s medium is mainly the human body
which he or she uses to perform, it usually
consists of four important elements: time,
where the performance took place, the
performers or performers body, and the
relationship between the audience and the
performers.
POETRY
PERFORMANCE
• Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses
his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or
camera, but expresses them through words.
These words are carefully selected to exhibit
clarity and beauty and to stimulate strong
emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow, and the
list goes on. These words, combined with
movements, tone, volume, and intensity of the
delivery, add to the artistic value of the poem.
 ARCHITECTURE
• Art is the pursuit and the creation of beautiful things
while architecture is the making of beautiful buildings.
However, not all buildings are beautiful, some
buildings only embodied the functionality they need,
but the structure, lines, forms, and colors are not
beautifully expressed. Thus, not all buildings can be
considered architecture. Take the example, the Grand
Theatre de Bordeaux where the functionality of the
theatre remains, but the striking balance of the lines,
colors, and shapes completes the masterpiece.
• Buildings should embody these three important
elements – plan, construction, and design – if they wish
to merit the title architecture (Collins & Riley, 1931).
DANCE
• Dance is a series of movements that follows
the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
Dancing is a creative form that allows people
to freely express themselves. It has no rules.
• You may say that choreography does not allow
this, but in art expression, dancers are not
confined to set steps and rules but are free to
create and invent their own movements as long
as they deem them graceful and beautiful.
 LITERARY ART
• Artist who practice literary arts use words-not paint,
musical instruments, or chisels – to express
themselves and communicate emotions to the
readers. However simply becoming a writer does
not make one a literary artist. Simply constructing a
succession of sentences in a meaningful manner is
not literary art. It focuses 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.
• Examples of famous literary artist and their works
include The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-
Exupery and Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare
THEATRE
• Theatre uses live performers to present
accounts and imaginary events before the
live audience. Theatre art performances
usually follow a script, though they should
not be confused with literary arts.
• Much like in filmmaking, theatre also
considers several elements such as acting,
gestures, lighting, sound effect musical
score, scenery and props.
• Some genres of theatre include drama,
musical, tragedy, and comedy.
 APPLIED ARTS
• Applied Arts is incorporating elements of
style and design to everyday items with the
aim of increasing their aesthetical value.
• Artist in this field bring beauty, charm and
comfort into many things that are useful in
everyday life (Collins & Riley, 1931).
• Industrial design, interior design, fashion
design, and graphic design are considered
applied arts.
• Applied is often compared to fine arts, where
the latter is chiefly concerned on aesthetic
value.
• Through exploration and expression of ideas,
consideration of the needs, and careful choice
of materials and techniques, artist are able to
combine functionality and style.
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THANK YOU.

GOD BLESS US ALL!