Art Appreciation Creativity

Imagination & Expression

 It takes an artist to make art. One may Perceive
Beauty on A Daily basis. However not every
beautiful that can be seen or experienced may
truly be called a work ofart. Art is a product of
man’s Creativity,Imagination, And Expression.
Not Everyone can be Considered an Artist, but
all are Spectators of art. We are able to
distinguish What is fine and Beautiful from
what is good quality and from poor. This Gives
us a role in the field of art appriciation.
 The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and
perspective.Each artwork beholds beauty in its own kind, the kind that the artist sees and
wants the viewers to perceive. -Jean-Paul Sartre

 * Each artwork Beholds beauty in its own kind. That the artist sees and wants the viewers to
perceive.
 * More often than not, people are blind to this beauty and only those who have developed fine
sense of appreciation can experience and see the art the way the artist did.
 *Hence refining one’s ability to appreciate arts allows him to deeply understand the purpose of
an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses.
 *In Cultivating an appreciaton of art, one should also exerciseand develop his taste for things
that are fine and beautiful.
 *This allows individuals to make intelligent choicesand dicisions in acquiring necessities and
luxuries, knowing what gives better value for time or money while taking info. Consideration the
aesthetic and practical value.
 *Learning to appreciate art no matter what vocationor profession you have, will lead to a fuller
and more meaningful life.
 * Creativity Requires thinking outside the box.
 *In art creativity is what sets apart one artwork
from another.
 *When can we say that something is creative?
When we have not seen anything like it? When
it is out of the ordinary When it is not just a
copy or imitationof someone’s work?
THERE IS ORIGINALITY
 Nowadays, being creative can be quite
challenging.
 Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is
limited, where as imagination embraces the entire world, and all there
ever will be to know and understand - Albert Einstein

 * Imagination is not constrained by the walls of the norm,but goes beyond

that, Through imagination,one is able to craft something bold, something
new, and something better in the hopes of creating something that will
stimulate change.
 * In Artist’s mind sits a vast gallery of artworks. An artwork does not
need to be a realthing, but can be something that is imaginary , However,
something imaginary does not necessarilymean it cannot be called
art.Artists use their imagination that gives birth to reality through
creation.
 In the same way that imagination produces art, art also inspires
imagination.
 “What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it. But express it, Through
expressionhi is able to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something
beautiful out of them.”-Robin George Collingwood
 *Expressing emotionsis different from describing emotions.
 *This Makes People’s art not a reflection of what is outside or external to them, but a
reflection of their inner selves.

 Visual Arts
 *Creation that fall under this category are those that appeals to the sense of sight
and are mainly visualin nature. Artist’s produce visual arts driven by their desire to
Produce things that they have seen in the waythat they perceived them.
 * There are also other artistic Diciplines that also involve a visual aspect,such as
performance arts,Theater, and applied arts. Some mediumsof visualarts include
paintings, Drawings, Letterings, Printing, Sculpture, Digital Imaging.

 FILM
 *Film refers to the art of putting together succesions of still images in order to create
an illusion of movement. Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetic, cultural ,and social value
and is considered both an art and an industry.
 1. Motion-Picture camera (also known as movie
camera)
 2. Animation Techniques
 3. Computer- Generated Imagere (CGI)

 *Film making simulates experiences or creates

one that is beyond the scape ofour
imaginationas it aims to deliver ideas, feelings,
or beautyto its viewers.
 * Performance Art is a live art and the artist’s
medium is mainly the Human body which he
or she uses to perform, but also employs other
kind of artsuch as Visualart, props, or sound.
 Elements of performance arts:
 * Time
 * Where the performance took place
 * The performer’s body
Relationship between the audience and the performer(s)
 * Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses his
emotions notby usingpaint,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,
sorrowamong others.

 * It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial

values that go beyond its Literal meaning to narrate
amphasize, Argue, or convinc, These words combined
with movements, tones, volume, and intensity of the
deliveryadd to the artistic, value of the poem
 Art the pursuit and creation of beautifulthings while architecture is the
makingof beautiful buildings. However, Not allbuildingis beautiful
becausesome only embodythe functionality they need. But the
structure,Lines,form and colors are not beautifully expressed.

 Important Elements:
 * Plain
 * Construction
 * Design

 Building should embody these three important elements if they wish to

merit the title architecture.
 Dance is series of movements that fllows the
rhythm of the music accompaniment. Dancing
is a creative art form that allows people to
freely express themselves

 Choreography may seem not to allow this, but

in art expression,dancers are not contained to
set steps and rules but are free to createand
invent their own movements as longs as they
deem them gracefuland beautiful.
 Artist who practice literaryarts use words to express themeselves
and communicate emotions to the readers.Simply becoming a
writer does not make one a literary artist, litirary art goes beyond
the usual professional, academic, journalistic and other technical
forms of writing. It focuses on writing using a unique style, not
following a specific format or norm. it may include bothfiction
and non-fiction such as novels, biographies and poems.

 Examples: Romeo and Juliet –William Shakespeare

The Little Prince –Antoine de Sain-Exupery
 Theater uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary
events before a live audience.Theater art perfrmanceusually
follows/follow a script, though theyshould not be confused with
literary arts.

 Like in Filmmaking theater also considers several elements such

as acting gesture, lighting, sounds effect, musical score, scenery
and props, like performance art, theater also in live performance.

 Genres: drama, musical,tragedy, comedy, and improvisation.

 Applied Art is incorporating elements of
style and dign to everydayitems with the
aim of increasing their aesthitic value.
Artists in this field bring beauty, charm,
and comfort into many things that were
useful in everyday life. Industrial design,
interior design, fashion design, Graphic
design.