Lesson 2

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  • Art Appreciation: Creativity, Imagination, and Expression is the subject of Lesson 2.
  • Through exploration and expression of ideas, consideration of the needs, and careful choice of materials and techniques, artists can combine functionality and style.
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher of the 20th century, described the world 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.
  • Creativity requires “thinking outside the box”.
  • In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.
  • A creative artist does not simply copy or imitate another artist’s work.
  • Albert Einstein demonstrated that knowledge is actually derived from imagination.
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge because 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.
  • 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.
  • Imagination allows endless possibilities.
  • Robin George Collingwood, an English philosopher who is best known for his work in aesthetics explicated in his publication The Principles of Art (1938), stated that art is an expression of emotions.
  • Expression in art is different from description as it individualizes and allows the artist to express himself the way he wants to.
  • Visual Arts are creations that fall under this category and appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature.
  • Film refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion or movement.
  • Filmmaking focuses on its aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is considered as both an art and an industry.
  • Performance Arts are a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he / she uses to perform, but also employs other kind of art such as virtual art, props, or sound.
  • Theater considers several elements such as acting, gesture, lighting, sound effects, musical score, scenery, and props, and the combination of these elements is what gives the strongest impression on the audience and the script becomes a minor element.
  • Theater uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience, and theater art performances usually follow a script, though they should not be confused with literary arts.
  • Poetry, combined with movements, tone, volume, and intensity of the delivery, adds to the artistic value of the poem.
  • Applied arts is incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetic value.
  • Applied arts is often compared to fine arts, where the latter is chiefly concerned on aesthetic value.
  • Dance is a series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
  • Poetry uses words carefully selected to exhibit clarity and beauty and to stimulate strong emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow, and the list goes on.
  • Industrial design, interior design, fashion design, and graphic design are considered applied arts.
  • Literary art focuses on writing using a unique style, not following a specific format or norm, and may include both fiction and non-fiction such as novels, biographies, and poems.
  • Artists in the field of applied arts bring beauty, charm, and comfort into many things that are useful in everyday life.
  • Literary art is the use of words to express oneself and communicate emotions to the readers, not just becoming a writer.
  • Architecture is the making of beautiful buildings, not all buildings are beautiful.
  • Some poets even make poems out of their emotions picked up from other works of art, which in turn produce another work of art through poetry.
  • Poetry uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial values that go beyond its literal meaning to narrate, emphasize, argue, or convince.
  • Theater art requires the participation of the viewer, and some genres of theater include drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and improvisation.
  • Performance art is live and intangible, which means it cannot be bought or traded as a commodity.
  • Performance Arts usually consist of four important elements: time, location, performers’ or performer’s body, and a relationship between the audience and the performer(s).
  • Poetry is an art form where the artists expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.