LESSON 2

Art Appreciation:
Creativity, Imagination, and
Expression
 Learning Outcomes
By the end of the lesson, the students must be
able to:
[Link] art from nature
[Link] artistic expression based on
personal experiences with art.
[Link] the nature of art’s preliminary
expression; and
[Link] works of art by citing personal
experiences.
 CONTENT OF THE LESSON

Art Appreciation as The Role of

a Way of Life Creativity in Art
01 02 Making

Art as a Product of
Art as Expression
Imagination,
03 Imagination as a 04 Visual Arts
Film
Product of Art Performance Art
Poetry Performance
Architecture
Dance
Literary Art
Theater
Art Appreciation as
a Way of Life
• Art is not nature but may be inspired by
nature.
• Not everyone can be considered an artist,
but surely 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
• He declares 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,
382). Jean-Paul Sartre

• Eyes that look are common but eyes that see are
rare
• Numerous artworks go unnoticed which they miss
the opportunities (fine sense of appreciation can
experience same way the artist did)
• Appreciating artworks allows to deeply understand
the purpose and recognition of its beauty it
possesses.
• Cultivating its appreciation makes one to make
intelligent choices and decisions in acquiring
necessities and luxuries for better value of money
or time.
• Rewarding experience for meaningful life.
“Learning to appreciate art, no matter what vocation
or profession you have, will lead to a fuller and more
meaningful life” (Collins & Riley 1931, 7).
 The Role of
Creativity in Art
Making
 The Role of Creativity in Art Making

• Thinking outside the box

• Creativity embraces originality, puts flavor into
his works.
• Quite challenging
 The Role of Creativity in Art Making

Department of Tourism (DOT) boomed popularity in 2011 was

allegedly plagiarized from Switzerland’s tourism slogan “It More
Fun in Switzerland,” back in 1951 .
In DOT’s defense, former DOT Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr.
claimed that it was “purely coincidental.” 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

Imagination
 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 world, and all there ever will be to
know and understand.” – Albert Einstein
• An artworks does not need to be a real
thing, but can be something that is
imaginary
 Art as a Product of Imagination, Imagination as a
Product of Art
• Artist use their imagination that gives birth to
reality through creation.
• Would you be inspired to work in such a place?
 Art as a Product of Imagination, Imagination as a
Product of Art

“The creative pieces were made

not only because they were
functional to men, but all because
beauty gave them joy”
Art as Expression
 Art as Expression

• An emotion will remain unknown to a man until

he expresses it.

• “I am angry” is a mere description but

expression means a reflection of inner selves”
 Art as Expression

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 by their desire to
reproduce things that they have seen in the
way that they perceived.
• Some mediums of visual arts include
paintings, drawings, letterings, printing,
sculptures, digital imaging, and more.
FCamellia in Old Chinese Vase on
Black Lacquer Table by John La
 Art as Expression
Film
• 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 as an art
and an industry.
• techniques: motion-picture camera,
also known as movie camera,
animation techniques, computer-
generated imagery (CGI), and more
 Art as Expression
Film
• The art of filmmaking is so complex
it has to take into account many
important elements such as
lighting, musical score, visual
effects, direction, and more.
• This is why in famous film festivals
and awards such as the Metro
Manila Film Festival and Oscars, a
long list categories is considered to
recognize excellence in the art of
filmmaking.
 Art as Expression
Performance Art
• Live art and the artist’s medium is
mainly the human body which he or
she uses to perform, but also
employs other kinds of art such as
visual art, props, or sound.
• four important elements: time,
where the performance took place,
the performer’s or performers’
body, and a relationship between
the audience and the
performer/performers
 Art as Expression
Performance Art
• Live art and the artist’s medium is
mainly the human body which he or
she uses to perform, but also
employs other kinds of art such as
visual art, props, or sound.
• Four important elements: time,
where the performance took place,
the performer’s or performers’
body, and a relationship between
the audience and the
performer/performers
 Art as Expression
• An Poetry Performance
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 simulate strong emotions of joy,
anger, love, sorrow, and the list
goes on.
• It uses a word’s emotional,
musical, and spatial values that
goes beyond its literal meaning to
narrate, emphasize, argue, or
 Art as Expression
Poetry Performance

• These words, combined with movements, tone, volume,

and intensity of the delivery, add to the artistic value of the
poem. Some poets even make poems out of their emotions
picked up from other works of art, which in turn produces
another work of art through poetry.
 Art as Expression
Architecture
• Art is the pursuit and creation of
beautiful things whilst architecture is
the making of beautiful buildings.
• However, not all buildings are
beautiful. Some building only embody
the functionality it needs, but the
structure, lines, forms, and colors are
not beautifully expressed. Thus, not all
buildings can be considered
architecture.
 Art as Expression
Architecture
• Take, for example, the Grand Theatre
de Bordeaux where the functionality of
the theater 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 and Riley
1931, 107).
 Art as Expression
Dance
• A series of movements that follows the
rhythm of the music accompaniment.
• It has been an age-old debate
whether dance can really be
considered an art form, but here we
primarily describe dance as a form of
expression.
• Dancing is a creative form which
allows people to freely express
themselves. It has no rules.
 Art as Expression
Dance
• 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 it graceful and
beautiful.
 Art as Expression
Literary Art
• Artists who practice literary arts
use words-not paint, musical
instruments, 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.
 Art as Expression
Literary Art
• Literary 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 both fiction and non-
fiction such as novels, biographers, and
poems.
• Examples of famous literary artists and
their works include The Little Prince by
Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
 Art as Expression
Theater
• Theater uses live performers to
present accounts or imaginary events
before a live audience.
• Theater art performances usually
follow a script, though it should not be
confused with literary arts. Much like
in filmmaking, theater also consider
several elements such as acting,
gesture, lighting, sound effects,
musical score, scenery, and props.
 Art as Expression
Theater
• The combination of these elements is
what gives the strongest impression on
the audience and the script thus
becomes a minor element.
• Similar to performance art, since theater
is also a live performance, the
participation of the viewer is an
important element in theater arts. Some Macbeth

genre of theater include drama, musical,

tragedy, comedy, and improvisation.
Thank you!
Prepared by:
ANNA CZARINA F. PALMA,LPT