art appreciation

• Creative individuals are described as happy, secure, less enculturated, less afraid of societal norms, less controlled, and more accepting of their impulses
• John Dewey's "Art as Experience" (1904) presents aesthetic experience as integral to the organic variability of human nature and providing expression of the human condition
• Joaunim I Krueger Ph.D. describes creative people as less planned, less willed, nutty, silly, and crazy
• Croce's distinction between art and nature is that art is nature becoming record mature through the instrumentality of industrial and scientific metamorphosis of its material
• The distinction between art and physicality reflects the idea that art cannot be identified solely with its concrete embodiment
• Humanities are branches of knowledge concerning human beings and culture, involving analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself
• Art is a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation, involving the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects
• In Filipino, art is known as "sining" with definitions including the quality, production, or expression of anything beautiful, attractive, and with greater value than usual according to aesthetic principles
• Assumptions about art:

  • Art is a form of creation
  • Art is subjective
  • Art conveys reality
• Artistic creation involves the enhancement of beauty and artistry through the combination of elements in the medium, distinct from nature which includes elements existing beforehand or created by God
• Art being subjective is exemplified by the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," indicating that opinions on attractiveness vary among individuals
• Art involves experience and expression, with assumptions challenged such as art reflecting states of the external world, replaced by art as an expression of humans' inner life
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs associates creativity with self-actualization, where psychological health is linked to usual creativity rather than productive achievement
• Maslow defines creativity in characterological terms, with cheerfulness and openness to new experiences, describing creative individuals as less enculturated, less afraid of impulses, and more self-accepting
• John Dewey's "Art As Experience" presents aesthetic experience as integral to the organic completion of human nature, emphasizing aesthetics as central to understanding not only art but also the human condition