NAVOTAS POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE
Bangus Street. Corner Apahap Street, North Bay Boulevard South, Navotas City
Art Appreciation
MODULE 6
Artist and Artisans
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
1. outline the history of the emergence of artists and artisans;
2. identify and define the different individuals and groups who take on varied roles in the world of art and
culture; and
3. classify the practices of artists in terms of the form, medium and technique;
Imagination
While human beings are unique and no two individuals are exactly the same, imagination, too differ from
one person to another. It is affected by experiences-by what our senses received. The direct exposure of the artist
to the environment will eventually affect the way the artist looks upon the subject and the story of his/her own
work. It is important that the artist would submit himself/herself to what he/she doing (art making) to allow
deep imagination in creating forms of Art. Same with inspiration, imagination plays a significant role in an
production. Imagination is useless if a person does not transform an idea into a real form or object. The Artwork
eventually concretizes an experience.
Eight Different Modes of Imagination:
1. Effectuative Imagination combines information together to synergize new concepts and ideas. Effectuative
imagination can be either guided or triggered by random thoughts, usually stimulated by what a person
experiences within the framework of their past experience. It may also incubate from pondering over a
specific problem within the occasional attention of a person.
2. Intellectual (or Constructive) Imagination is utilized when considering and developing hypotheses from
different pieces of information or pondering over various issues of meaning, like in the areas of
philosophy, management, or politics, etc. Intellectual imagination originates from a definite idea or plan
and thus is guided imagination as it has a distinct purpose which in the end must be articulated after a
period of painstaking and sometimes meticulous endeavor.
3. Imaginative Fantasy creates and develops stories, pictures, poems, stage-plays, and the building of the
esoteric, etc. This form of imagination may be based upon the inspiration of some fact or semi
autobiographical experiences, extrapolated or analogized into new persona and events, supernatural
mythology and folklore, and structural with mythical people in real word settings.
4. Empathy is a capacity we have to connect to others and feel what they are feeling. It helps a person know
emotionally what others are experiencing from their frame and reference. It allows our mind to detach
itself from one's self and see the world from someone else’s feelings, emotions, pain, and reasoning. It can
assist us in seeing other realities, alternative meanings of situations, which may consist of many layers. It
shows us that here are no absolutes, just alternative meanings to situations. It links us to the lager
community and thus important to human survival in enabling us to understand what is required to
socially coexist with others.
5. Strategic Imagination is concerned about vision of what could be, the ability to recognize and evaluate
opportunities by turning them into mental scenarios, seeing the benefits, identifying the types and
quantities of resources required for taking particular actions, and the ability to weigh up all the issues in
a strategic manner.
6. Emotional Imagination is concerned with manifesting emotional dispositions and extending them into
emotional scenarios. Without any imagination, emotion would not be able to emerge from our psyche
and manifest as feelings, moods, and dispositions. Fear requires the imagination of what is fearful, hate
requires imagination about what is repulsive, and worry requires the imaginative generation of scenarios
that make one anxious. Through emotional imagination, beliefs are developed through giving weight to
imaginative scenarios that generate further sets of higher order emotions.
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7. Dreams are unconscious forms of imagination made up of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that
occur during certain stages of sleep. Dreams show that every concept in our mind has its own psychic
associations and the ideas we deal with in everyday life are by no means as precise as we think. Our
experiences become sublimed into our memory passing into the unconscious where the factual
characteristics can change, and can be reacquired at any time.
8. Memory Reconstruction is the process of retrieving our memory of people, objects, and events. Our
memory is made up of prior knowledge consisting of a mix of truth and belief, influenced by emotion.
Recurring memory therefore carries attitudes, values, and identity as most of our memory is within the
"I" or "me” paradigm. Memory is also reconstructed to fit into our current view of the world, so is very
selective. The process of memory reconstruction occurs within our subconscious emerging into our
consciousness without us being really being aware of the soul elements, i.e., what is fact and what is belief.
Imagination is an important tool in developing an artwork. It is where the substance and the
meaning of the artwork are formed. Hence, imaginations differ from one person to another
since everyone is dealing with different experiences-with what are received by the senses.
Imaginations are still dependent on action for they remain imaginations unless the artist
transforms these thoughts and ideas into form. An individual has to submit himself/herself
in the process of Art making in order to create a new form out of the thoughts and ideas
founded on the experiences.