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Soulmaking Making and Deriving Meaning From Art

The document discusses different aspects of soulmaking including how to understand the meaning of artworks, categories of soulmaking like crafting images and stories, and cultural appropriation. Soulmaking refers to using art as a way to understand oneself and find meaning in life and work. Cultural appropriation involves borrowing recognizable images and elements from other cultures to create new art.

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Soulmaking Making and Deriving Meaning From Art

The document discusses different aspects of soulmaking including how to understand the meaning of artworks, categories of soulmaking like crafting images and stories, and cultural appropriation. Soulmaking refers to using art as a way to understand oneself and find meaning in life and work. Cultural appropriation involves borrowing recognizable images and elements from other cultures to create new art.

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SOULMAKING,

MAKING AND
DERIVING MEANING
FROM ART
Presentation Subtitle
HOW CAN WE
UNDERSTAND
THE MEANING OF
AN ARTWORK?
In order to make sense of an artwork, it would
require understanding the visual elements
where art was grounded on, especially the
principles of design. It is important to note that
the audience of the artwork must have a certain
level of awareness to the style, form, and
content of the said work. Without such
understanding, it would be difficult to
appreciate the arts in its fullness and entirety
SOULMAKING/
CRAFTMAKING
• It is an alternative venue for
knowing ourselves and
looking into the depths and
real meaning of what we are
doing for our everyday life.
• Soulmaking can be an innate
gift or a learned skill, or a
combination of both. It has
no time reference, it occurs
anytime.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
After 6 months of sleepless nights and
fervent prayer, A dream of becoming a
Civil Engineer is finally granted He
posted in social media “Today, my
prayers for two long years have been
granted. I am now a registered Civil
Engineer! And I am so happy I can’t
wait to put this moment into my
canvass.”
WHO CAN GIVE THE EXACT MEANING OF A CERTAIN
ARTWORK?

While it may be true that some of us may


infer the meaning of a certain artwork based
on its form, it is the ARTIST HIMSELF that
can give the exact meaning of a certain
artwork
CATEGORIES OF
SOULMAKING
Crafting Images
It refers to imaging or representing in any
form, which may be through painting,
sculpting, drawing, storytelling, poetry,
dancing, composing, or talking notes.
Crafting images is just like weaving, quilting,
or doing crochet; it is not creating works out
of nothing
CATEGORIES OF
SOULMAKING
Crafting Stories
The moment we write, engrave and inscribe
our own thoughts, ideas, commentaries,
criticisms, and positive and negative
emotions, we are crafting stories. Stories that
can be presented in any form, - image, words,
objects, and musical composition.
CATEGORIES OF
SOULMAKING
Crafting Instruments

An instrument maker is a bridge toward the


unknown because the instrument produces
sound that transcend our feelings, emotions,
and sensation in another realm
CATEGORIES OF
SOULMAKING
Crafting movements.
Our life is full of movements; it is filled with
various beats. Life if full of flowing images
accompanied by narratives. Everything we do
in life is a performance, we perform life.
CATEGORIES OF
SOULMAKING
Crafting techniques.

Anything can be crafting by using different


evocative descriptions of experiences and
explorations like photograph studies, puppets
and masks, constructions, and notepad
studies.
PURPOSE OF
SOULMAKING
According to Narcisso, soulmaking is an
alternative for knowing ourselves and
looking into the depths and reality of what
we are doing for our everyday life.
Simply put, the purpose of soulmaking is to
bring out the artistic skill of an individual.
APPROPRIATION
• It refers to borrowing images that are recognizable
from different sources and using these borrowed
images to make a new art form.
• Appropriation in art and art history refers to the
practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images
in their art with little transformation of the original.
• This means borrowing, copying, and altering images
and objects that already exists.
• Appropriation has been a strategy used by artists for a
super long time.
EXAMPLE
If a junior engineer needs to
hone his skills in his field of
specialization, he would be
allowed to study some of the
designs of a senior engineer
which will serve as his basis to
make his own work.
5 ACTS OF
CULTURAL
APPROPRIATION
1. MATERIAL
APPROPRIATION
It occurs when the possession of a
tangible object (such as s
sculpture) is transferred from
members of one culture to
members of another culture. The
removal of the friezes from the
Parthenon by Lord Elgin is often
regarded as a case of material
appropriation.
5 ACTS OF
CULTURAL
APPROPRIATION
2. NON-MATERIAL
APPROPRIATION
This form of appropriation involves
the reproduction, by a member of one
culture, of non-tangible works (such as
stories, musical compositions or
dramatic works) produced by some
other culture. A musician who sings
the songs of another culture has
engaged in non-material appropriation,
as has the writer who re-tells stories
produced by a culture other than his
own.
5 ACTS OF
CULTURAL
APPROPRIATION
3. STYLISTIC APPROPRIATION
Sometimes artists do not reproduce
works produced by another culture,
but still take something from that
culture. In such cases, artists
produce works with stylistic
elements in common with the works
of another culture. White musicians
who compose jazz or blue music are
often said to have engaged in
appropriation in this sense.
5 ACTS OF
CULTURAL
APPROPRIATION
4. MOTIF APPROPRIATION
This form of appropriation is related to
stylistic appropriation. Sometimes artists
are influenced by the art of a culture other
than their own without creating works in
the same style. Picasso, for example, was
influences by African carving, but his
works are not and African style. Similarly,
Ravel was influenced by the jazz of
African-Americans, but his compositions
are not in a jazz idiom. Rather than
appropriating an entire style, such artists
have appropriated only basic ideas or
motifs.
5 ACTS OF
CULTURAL
APPROPRIATION
5. SUBJECT APPROPRIATION
Subject appropriation occurs
when someone from one culture
represents members or aspects of
another culture. Many of Joseph
Conrad’s novels involve subject
appropriation, since Conrad
frequently wrote cultures other
than his own.
CONTENT
APPROPRIATION
Similar to non-material appropriation
It refers to the adoption of the works
that are intangible.

EXAMPLE: A an artist from the


North Luzon was inspired by the
Maranao culture as shown in the
latter’s artworks. A wanted to create
similar to that of the artworks of
Maranao but it should not appear to
be exactly the same.
SUBJECT
APPROPRIATION
It is also called voice
appropriation
IMPROVISATION
The action of improvising.
Similar to extemporization,
adlibbing, spontaneity.
Something that is improvised,
especially a piece of music, drama,
etc., created without preparation.

DANCE- type of improvisation


that can evoke dramatic and
thought provoking content.
PURPOSE OF
IMPROVISATION
Improvisation serves as a means
for us to cope up with real life
situations in which creativity,
adaptation to situations and
application of smart solution is a
must.
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