LESSON1: ASSUMPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTION ON THE NATURE OF ART

• what are the FIVE assumptions and misconceptions about the nature of art?

  Art is only about aesthetics.

  Art is only for the elite.

  Art is only about skill.

  Art has a fixed meaning.

  Art is limited to traditional mediums
• Art


  Part of the life we live as we cook, speak, sing, dance, and write
• Productive imagination


  The outcomes of our productive imagination
• Imagination


  An abstraction of a certain thought or feeling that produces good art based on reality or experience
• Expression


  The automatic response to imagination
• Imagination and expression


  • When a mother thinks about what food to prepare for her children's meals, she imagines the ingredients, the kitchen utensils, and the processes to use before expressing them into the actual cooking
• Expression of art


  • Positive
  • Negative
• When both means and ends of art are constructive


  Its expression enhances not only the individual quality of life which is essential to his or her progress and development but also the life of others and the nation as well
• Expression of art in advertisements


  • Entices public art in patronizing certain brands and in the purchase of products to increase the company's sales, improve employees' lives, and regulate government tax collection
• When the means and the ends of art expression are destructive


  Art may result in misery, hinder progress and development, and promote chaos. Thus, this situation may bring imminent danger in society