ART APPRECIATION

• Is a three-unit course that develops student’s ability to

appreciate, analyze , and critique works of art.
• Through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches, this
course equips students with a broad knowledge of the
practical, historical, philosophical and social relevance of
the arts in order to hone students ability to articulate their
understanding of the arts.
• the course also develops students competency in
researching and curating arts as well as conceptualizing,
mounting, and evaluating art productions.
• The course aim to develops students genuine appreciation
for Philippines arts by providing them opportunities to
explore the diversity and richness and their rootedness in
Filipino culture.
 CHAPTER 1:
ASSUMPTIONS AND
MISCONCEPTIONS ON
THE NATURE OF ARTS
“nature is a haunted house-but art – a House that tries to be haunted.”
…Emily Dickinson
At the end of the chapter, you should be
able to:
 Discuss the nature of arts preliminary
expressions;
 Characterize artistic expression based on
personal experience with art;
 Clarify misconceptions about art;
 Differentiate art history from art
appreciation;
 Differentiate art from nature ;
 Categorize the works of art by citing
personal experiences and
 Characterize the assumptions of the arts.
ART IMAGINATION AND EXPRESSION
 Art is a part of life.
 IMAGINATION is the abstraction of a certain thought
or feeling that produces a good art based on reality
or experience (Hollick, 2014): while EXPRESSION is
an automatic response to it.
 Imaginations is thinking of something –whether it is
an object, place, time, etc..
 Imagination focus can be on things that are
impossible.
 Unexpressed imagination is not art.
 However, expression of art can either be positive or
negative.
 means and end of art are CONSTRUCTIVE AND
DESTRUCTIVE .
ACTIVITY 1. NURTURING SELF-
EXPRESSION
1.Recall one of the experiences you
have in your life as a teenager.
2.Pick one of these experiences that
you like to depict and express your
feeling/s about it using any art
expression.
3.Illustrate in simple drawing or write
a poem to enhance your creativity.
ETYMOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF ART

 ART is derived from latin term ars, which

means skill, talent or ability.
 Art is skill in making or doing something.( the
world book Encylopedia,1995)
 Art is the expression of the creative skill and
imagination in different genres for
appreciation of beauty and emotional power.
(oxford online Dictionary, 2020).
 Art is an expression made visible by a form.
 Art is an expression, an expression of feeling,
belief, and character.
MISCONCEPTION ABOUT ART
1.Misconception of art is the belief that someone is
an artist and rest are not.
2.The belief that art is only good for the rich and
famous. Because there is no bifurcation of art
according to status .
3.The belief that art and craft have interchangeable
meaning.
 Emphasized that “ art is an expression of feelings and
emotions; craft is a form of work with the use of available
materials.” (inocian e al 2019)
 Art and craft can be different, but these two can be
similar in some ways
 In simpler terms, art is the expression of imagination
; craft is the realization of the expression.
Art Appreciation: Creativity And Imagination
 Creativity is the mother of all invention . While the
grandmother is imagination.
 Imagination allows us to think of things that are not
real or around us at any given time, creativity allows
us to do something meaningful with our
imagination.
 Imagination is about seeing the impossible, or
unreal. Creativity is using imagination to unleash the
potential of existing ideas in order to create new and
valuable ones.
 The biggest difference between each of these is the
frame of focus we have when attempting to utilize
each.
 With imagination, our focus can on things that are
Art Appreciation: Creativity And
Imagination
 Where imagination simply requires that we have some
context from which to envision an idea, creativity
requires that we have knowledge of the idea, motivation
and freedom to explore and tinker, intelligence to see
what makes the convergence of any set of ideas
possible, and the energy to see the process through.
 We have a tendency to use the term “being
imaginative” and “being creative” as synonyms,
but they are not. It’s quite possible to be imaginative
without being creative(Naima, 2016). Creativity is the
act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality.. If
you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are
imaginative but not creative.
 We are all born with imagination but creativity is
learned. And you desire your chance to learn it.
Activity 2: Self- introspection
1.List down all the skills that you have since you
were a child.
2.Based on the list, spot the most important skill
that lingers up to this moment even if you failed
to accomplish his before .
3.I is not yet late, try to express it in your simple
and east way
4.Repeat this regularly, monitor your improvement
and video your success
Assumption of art
1. Art is universal
2. Art is not nature
3. Art is involve experience
 The humanities

 Humanities as coined from latin words humanus

and humanitas meaning humans, the field of
humanities provides human beings opportunity to
think critically and creatively, in order to understand
the values and cultures of the world and to bring
clarify to the future. ( standford humanities enter,
2015)
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The Fields of Humanities

HUMANITIES AND ART APPRECIATION
 Looking at, making, and writing about the art develops critical thinking
skills, or a “questioning frame of mind.” our culture is increasingly
dominated by images : learn to read and understand them fully .
 Arts helps us understands more about the culture and values that
produced it.
 Art contains information. Creativity is essential in any field of study.
 The intellect of humans direct humankind to a more meaningful actions
in two different activities: 1. the action to be done in relation to its
ultimate destiny and morality . 2. works to be done in relation to social
needs.
 The necessity of art, therefore, is in its proper frame for humans to
appreciate the beauty of what is around them.