LESSON 2

• Jean-Paul Sartre


  A famous French philosopher of the 20th Century
• Role of art


  A creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, the source of which is due to human freedom
• Appreciating art


  Allows one to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses
• Cultivating an appreciation of art involves exercising and developing one's taste for things that are fine and beautiful
• Frequenting museums, art galleries, performing art theaters, concert halls or even malls that display art exhibitions will not only develop an understanding of the art but will serve as a rewarding experience
• Creativity in art


  What sets apart one artwork from another, a creative artist does not simply copy or imitate another artist's work
• Creativity


  • Embraces originality
  • Backed with careful research on related art to avoid conflicts
• 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.'
• Creativity


  Starts with the human mind, it all begins with imagination
• Knowledge


  Derived from imagination, not constrained by the walls of the norm, but goes beyond that
• Imagination allows one to craft something bold, new and better in the hopes of creating something that will stimulate change
• Art as an expression


  Expressing oneself trying to release yourself from tormenting and disabling state of excitement or fear
• Expressing emotions


  Something different from describing emotion
• Visual arts


  • Appealing to the sense of sight and are mainly visual in nature, including paintings, drawings, letterings, printing, sculptures and digital Imaging
• Film


  • Refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement, focuses on its aesthetics, cultural and social value and considered as both an art and industry, techniques include motion picture camera, animation techniques, Computer Generated Imagery, elements include lighting, musical score, visual effects, direction
• Performance art


  • A live art and the artist's medium is mainly human body and other kinds of arts such as visual art, props, or sound, four important elements are time, where the performance happened, performer's body and relationship between the audience and performers
• Theatre


  • Use live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience, use of script to deliver the flow of performance, elements include acting, gesture, lighting, sound effects, musical score, scenery and props
• Dance


  • Series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment, form of expression and creative form and no rules, types include ballet, tap dance, hiphop, folkdance
• Poetry performance


  • Artist expresses his emotions through words, clarity and beauty and stimulate strong emotions, combined with movements, tone, volume and intensity of the delivery
• Architecture


  • Making of beautiful buildings, not all buildings can be considered architecture (striking balance of lines, colors and shapes)
• Literary art


  • Use words-not paint, musical instruments or chisels to express themselves, focuses on writing using a unique style, includes fiction and non-fiction such as novels, biographies and poems
• Applied arts


  • Incorporating elements of style an design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetical value, includes industrial design, interior design, fashion design and graphic design, examples include basketry, wood carving, pottery, and weaving
• COLLINS AND RILLEY, 1931

  Refining one’s ability to appreciate art allows him to deeply understand the purpose of an artwork and recognize the beauty it possesses.
• principles of art by robin george collingwood

  -What an artist does not to an emotion is not to induce it, but express it.

  -Expressing emotions is something different from describing emotion.