ART

APPRECIATION:
CREATIVITY,
IMAGINATION, AND
EXPRESSION
Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, the students must have:
• differentiated art from nature;

• characterized artistic expression based on personal

experiences with art;

• discussed the nature of art’s preliminary expression;

and

• categorized works of art by citing personal

experiences.
• It takes an artist to make art. One may perceive
beauty on a daily basis.

• However, not every beautiful thing that can be

seen or experienced may truly be called a
work of art.

• 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 not and what is good
quality from poor.

• This gives us a role in the field of art

appreciation.
 Art Appreciation as a Way of Life

“The role of art as a creative work is to depict the

world in a completely different light and perspective,
and the source is due to human freedom.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

Each artwork beholds beauty in its own kind,

the 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 a
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 (Collins &
Riley, 1931).
 In cultivating an appreciation
of art, one should also exercise and
develop his taste for things that
are fine and beautiful.

This allows individuals to make

intelligent choices and decisions in
acquiring necessities and luxuries,
knowing what gives better value for time
or money while taking into consideration
the aesthetic and practical value.
 Learning to
appreciate art
no matter what
vocation or
profession you
have, will lead
to a fuller and
more
meaningful life.
The Role
of
Creativity
Creativity requires
in Art thinking outside the box.
Making

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 imitation of someone’s
work …

THERE IS ORIGINALITY!
Being creative can be quite challenging.

Creativity should be
backed with careful
research on related art
to avoid such conflict.
Art as a Product of Imagination,
Imagination as a Product of Art
• “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.”
– Albert Einstein
Imagination is not
constrained by the
walls of the norm,
but goes beyond
that.
 Through imagination,
Imagination is not
one is able to craft
constrained by the
something bold,
something new, and
walls of the
something betternorm,
in the
but goes
hopes beyond
of creating
something
that.that will
stimulate change.
 An artwork does not need
to be a real thing, but can However, something
imaginary does not
be something that is necessarily mean it cannot
imaginary (Collingwood, be called art. Artists use
their imagination that
1938) gives birth to reality
through creation.

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of
vast gallery
artworks.
In the same way that imagination
produces art, art also inspires
imagination.

IMAGINATIO
N ART
This craving and desire to These creative pieces were
be surrounded by made not only because
beautiful things dates they were functional to
back to our early men, but also because
ancestors (Collins & beauty gave them joy
Riley, 1931). (Collins & Riley, 1931).
 Art as Expression

You try to release yourself from this tormenting

and disabling state by doing something, which is
called expressing oneself (Collingwood, 1938).
“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 at the same time, create
something beautiful out of them.”

– Robin George Collingwood

• There is no need in relating or
referring to a specific emotion, such as
anger, in expressing one’s emotion.
Description destroys the idea of
expression, as it classifies the emotion,
making it ordinary and predictable.
• Expression individualizes. 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.
VISUAL ARTS
Visual Arts
• Creations that fall under this category are those
that appeals to the sense of SIGHT and are mainly
VISUAL IN NATURE.
 Visual Arts
• Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire
to reproduce things that they have seen in the way
that they perceived them (Collin & Riley, 1931).
 Visual Arts
• Visual arts is the kind of art form that the
population is most likely more exposed to, but its
variations are so diverse – they range from
sculptures that you see in art galleries to the last
movie you saw.
 Visual Arts
• Some mediums of visual arts include paintings, drawings,
letterings, printing, sculptures, digital imaging, and more.
 Printing,
Sculpture and
Digital Imaging
Film
• Film refers to the art of
putting together
successions 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.
Film
Techniques in film-making
process:
• Motion-picture camera
(also known as movie
camera)
• Animation techniques
• Computer-generated
imagery (CGI)
Film

Filmmaking simulates
experiences or creates one
that is beyond the scope of
our imagination as it aims
to deliver ideas, feelings, or
beauty to its viewers.
Film

The art of filming is so

complex it has to take into
account many important
elements such as lighting,
musical score, visual effects,
direction, and more.
Performance art
Performance Art
• 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 art such as
visual art, props, or
sound
Performance Art
Elements of Performance
arts:
• Time
• Where the performance
took place
• The performer’s body
• Relationship between
the audience and the
performer(s)
Performance Art

• The fact that

performance art is
live makes it
intangible, which
means it cannot be
bought or traded as
a commodity.
POETRY PERFORMANCE
 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
among others.
 Poetry
Performance
• It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and
spatial values that go beyond its literal
meaning to narrate emphasize, argue, or
convince.
 Poetry
Performance
• These words combined with movements,
tone, volume, and intensity of the delivery
add to the artistic, value of the poem
ARCHITECTURE
 Architecture

• Art is the pursuit and

creation of beautiful
things while architecture
is the making of
beautiful buildings.

MahaNakhon skyscraper by ole scheeren

opens as thailand's tallest building
 Architecture
• However, not all building
are beautiful because some
only embody the
functionality they need,
but the structure, lines,
forms, and colors are not
beautifully expressed.

The Heli-stage, the centrepiece of a commercial

complex called the China Textile Centre (CTC),
which comprises a mix of artistic and
commercial spaces at the heart of the Keqiao
Science City.
 Architecture

Important elements:
• Plan
• Construction
• Design

Morpheus hotel, the 40 storey centrepiece

to the City of Dreams resort in Macau, is the
winner of the hospitality architecture
category.
 Architecture

• Buildings should
embody these three
important elements
if they wish to merit
the title architecture.

Prague, Czech Republic - 22 May 2018:

Dancing House "Ginger and Fred". It was
designed by the Croatian architect Vlado
Milunić in cooperation with the Canadian
Frank Gehry
Architecture

• Take for 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.
DANCE
Dance • Dance is series of
movements that follows
the rhythm of the music
accompaniment.

• Dancing is a creative art

form that allows people
to freely express
themselves.

IT HAS NO RULES.
Dance
Choreography may seem not to
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
Literary Art
• Artists who practice
literary arts use words
to express themselves
and communicate
emotions to the
readers.

• Simply becoming a
writer does not make
one a literary artist.
Literary Art

• Literary art goes

beyond the usual
professional,
academic, journalistic
and other technical
forms of writing.
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.
Literary Art • Romeo and Juliet –
William Shakespeare
• The Little Prince –
Antoine de Saint-
Exupery
THEATER
 Theater
• Theater uses live
performers to
present accounts or
imaginary events
before a live
audience.

Giselle Roe as Young Cosette

with Sarah Copley as Fantine
 Theater
• Theater art
performance
usually follows a
script, though
they should not be
confused with
literary arts.

PETA’s original hit musical Care Divas

tells the story of five transgender
OFWs who work as caregivers by
day and performers by night.
 Theater
• Like in filmmaking,
theater also considers
several elements such
as acting, gesture,
lighting, sound effects,
musical score, scenery
and props.

“Himala,” the musical stage

adaptation of the iconic movie that
made its world premiere in 2003 at
the Cultural Center of the Philippines’
Tangahalang Huseng Batute
 Theater
• Like performance art, theater also is a live
performance.
• Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and
improvisation
APPLIED ARTS
Applied Arts
Applied arts is
incorporating
elements of style and
design to everyday
items with the aim of
increasing their
aesthetic value.
 Applied Arts

Artists in this field

bring beauty, charm,
and comfort into
many things that
were useful in
everyday life.
 Applied Arts

Industrial design,
interior design,
fashion design and
graphic design are
considered applied
arts.
 CONCLUSION
•
•Art is a product of man’s creativity,
imagination, and expression.
•An artwork may be inspired by nature or
other works of art, but an artist invents his
own forms and patterns due to what he
perceives as beautiful and incorporates
them in creating his masterpiece.
 CONCLUSION

• Not everyone can be considered an artist, but

surely all are spectators of art, which gives us all
a role in the field of art appreciation. Refining
ability to appreciate art allows him to deeply
understand the purpose of an artwork and
recognize the beauty it possesses.
 CONCLUSION

• Creativity is what sets apart one artwork from

another. A creative artist does not simply copy or
imitate another artist’s work.
 CONCLUSION

• He does not imitate the lines, colors, and patterns

in recreating nature.
• While through imagination, an artist is able to
craft something bold, something new and
something better in the hopes of creating
something that will stimulate change.
 CONCLUSION

• In the same way that imagination produces art,

art also inspires imagination.
• Lastly, through expression, an artist is able to
explore his own emotions while at the same time,
create something beautiful out of it.
 CONCLUSION
• Expressing emotions is something different from
describing emotions. Descriptions actually
destroy the idea of expression, as it classifies the
emotion, making it ordinary and predictable.
Expression, on the other hand, individualizes the
artist.
 CONCLUSION

• Some forms of art expression include visual arts,

film, performance art, poetry performance,
architecture, dance, literary arts, theatre arts and
applied arts.
This Ends Lesson 2
• Choose one from the following topics and
answer it by creating a visual artwork using
your creativity, imagination and expression.
Explain your work at the back. Put it on a long
bond paper.

1. What art field will you explore? Why?

2. How can you utilize the arts to express
yourself, your community, and your relation
to others?