Art Appreciation

• Art is a product of man's creativity, imagination, and expression
• Nature is not considered art simply because it is not made by man
• Photographs or sketches of nature, though captured or drawn by man, are not works of art, but mere recordings of the beauty in nature
• Role of art


  A creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom
• Refining one's ability to appreciate art allows him to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses
• Learning to appreciate art, no matter what vocation or profession you have, will lead to a fuller and more meaningful life
• Creativity


  A creative process that involves thinking outside the box, solving unique problems, and making life more enjoyable
• Albert Einstein: '"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."'
• Imagination


  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
• An artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be something that is imaginary
• Expression


  What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it
• Description actually 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
• Various ways of expressing oneself through art

  • Visual Arts
  • Film
  • Performance Art
  • Poetry Performance
  • Architecture
  • Dance
  • Literary Arts
  • Theater
  • Applied Arts
• Visual Arts


  • Creations that appeal to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature
  • Artists produce visual arts driven by their desire to reproduce things that they have seen in the way that they perceived them
• 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 as both an art and an industry
  • 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
• Performance Art


  • 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
  • Has four important elements: time, place, the performer, and a relationship between the audience and the performer
• Poetry Performance


  • An art form where the artist expresses his emotions through words
  • Uses a word's emotional, musical, and spatial values that go beyond its literal meaning to narrate, emphasize, argue, or convince
• Architecture


  • Art is the pursuit and creation of beautiful things while architecture is the making of beautiful buildings
  • Buildings should embody these three elements: plan, construction, and design, if they wish to merit the title architecture
• Dance


  • A series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment
  • Dancing is a creative form the allow people to freely express themselves
• Literary Art


  • Artists who practice literary arts use words-not paint, musical instruments or chisels to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers
  • Literary art goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic, and other technical forms of writing
• Theater


  • Uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience
  • Theater art performances usually follow a script, though they should not be confused with literary arts
  • The participation of the viewer is an important element in theater arts
• Applied Arts


  • Incorporating elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetical value
  • Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and comfort into many things that are useful in everyday life
• 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
• Perhaps 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