ART APPRE LESSON 2

• It takes an artist to make art. One may perceive beauty on a daily basis.
• However, not every beautiful thing that can be seen or experienced may truly be called a work of art.
• Art


  A product of man's creativity, imagination, and expression
• Not everyone can be considered an artist, but all are spectators of art.
• We are able to distinguish what is fine and beautiful from what is not and what is good quality and from poor.
• Art appreciation


  Our role in the field of distinguishing fine and beautiful art
• Speaker: '"The role of art as a creative work is to depict the world in a completely different light and perspective" – Jean-Paul Sartre'
• Each artwork beholds beauty in its own kind, the kind that the artist sees and wants the viewers to perceive.
• More often than not, people are blind to this beauty and only those who have developed a fine sense of appreciation can experience and see the art the way the artist did.
• Refining one's ability to appreciate arts allows him to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses.
• Cultivating an appreciation of art allows individuals to make intelligent choices and decisions in acquiring necessities and luxuries, knowing what gives better value for time or money while taking into consideration the aesthetic and practical value.
• Learning to appreciate art no matter what vocation or profession you have, will lead to a fuller and more meaningful life.
• Creativity


  Thinking outside the box
• In art, creativity is what sets apart one artwork from another.
• When can we say something is creative?

  • When we have not seen anything like it
  • When it is out of the ordinary
  • When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone's work
• Nowadays, being creative can be quite challenging.
• Speaker: '"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." – Albert Einstein'
• 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.
• An artwork does not need to be a real thing, but can be something that is imaginary.
• However, something imaginary does not necessarily mean it cannot be called art. Artists use their imagination that gives birth to reality through creation.
• In the same way that imagination produces art

  Art also inspires imagination
• Speaker: '"What an artist does to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it. Through expression, he is able to explore his own emotions and at the same time, create something beautiful out of them." – Robin George Collingwood'
• Expressing emotions is different from describing emotions.
• This makes people's art not a reflection of what is outside or external to them, but a reflection of their inner selves.
• Types of art expression

  • Visual arts
  • Film
  • Performance art
  • Poetry performance
  • Architecture
  • Dance
  • Literary art
  • 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
• There are also other artistic disciplines that also involve a visual aspect, such as performance arts, theater, and applied arts.
• 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 an art and an industry
• Techniques in film-making process

  • Motion-picture camera (also known as movie camera)
  • Animation techniques
  • Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
• 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.
• 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.
• Film


  • Metro Manila Film Festival
• 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
  • Elements: Time, Where the performance took place, The performer's body, Relationship between the audience and the performer(s)
  • The fact that performance art is live makes it intangible, which means it cannot be bought or traded as a commodity
• Poetry performance


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


  • The making of beautiful buildings
  • Important elements: Plan, Construction, Design
• Dance


  • A series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment
  • A creative art form that allows people to freely express themselves
  • Has no rules, though choreography may seem to confine dancers, they are free to create and invent their own movements as long as they deem them graceful and beautiful
• Literary art


  • Artists use words to express themselves and communicate emotions to the readers
  • Goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic and other technical forms of writing
  • Focuses on writing using a unique style, not following a specific format or norm
  • May include both fiction and non-fiction such as novels, biographies, and poems
• Famous Literary Artists


  • Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
  • The Little Prince – Antoine de Sain-Exupery
• Theater


  • Uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience
  • Follows a script, though they should not be confused with literary arts
  • Considers several elements such as acting, gesture, lighting, sound effects, musical score, scenery and props
  • Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and improvisation