ART APPRECIATION - LESSON 1

ART

is a part of our day to day life

we live with it as we cook, sing, speak, dance and while outcomes using our imagination

is a skill in making or doing something

(The world book encyclopedia, 1995)

because every individual has a talent. we are skillful in everything we do that ends with a good purpose.

this ability allows us to claim that we are an artists in our own right, depending on our preferences and abilites that determine pur specififc interest in art.

there is no division of art according to status

god created humann beings with equal number of nuerons, capable of rationalization compared to other creation in the animal kingdom (GEN 1:26)

the human brain is capable to think “5000 thoughts” per day (LABORIA, 2013)

IMAGINATION

abstraction of a certain thought on feeling that produces a good art based on reality or experience (Hollick, 2014)

Grandmother of all creations

ex: daydreaming, thinking, memorizing

EXPRESSION

is an automatic response to imagination

can either be constructive or destructive

2 TYPES OF EXPRESSION

CONSTRUCTIVE EXPRESSION

DESTRUCTIVE EXPRESSION

CONSTRUCTIVE EXPRESSION

enhance not only the individuals quality of life which is essential for his or her progress and development but also the life pf others and the nation as well.

ex: advertisement found in magazines, billboard, and social media, helps in increasing the chance of making their products known to the public, this helps increase sales, improve employees lives and regulate governement tax collections.

DESTRUCTIVE EXPRESSION

when the means and the ends of art expression are destructuve, art may result to misery, hinder progress and development and promote chaos. Thus, this situation may bring imminent danger to society.

ex:

1. Art of war

2. Burning of goods

3. Looting of goods

4. destruction of properties

5. violent protests in some places in the united states brought by racism & COVID-19

CREATIVITY

also known as the MOTHER of all inventions

A metacognitive / self-awareness skill - a form of divergent thinking that allows us to generate relationships, integrate concepts, elaborate information, brainstorm issues with fluency, fexibility and originality (Johnson, 2010)

thinking outside the box

unstructured the following process to capacitate the body and create art.

ART APPRECIATION

art gives us delight

art allows us to imagine our past experiences and draws our feelings to appreciate beauty.

Inocian et al. (2019)

emphasized at art is an expression of feelings and emotions; craft is a form of work with the use of available materials.

Zulueta (1994)

rejoined art is beautiful useful; while craft is making something useful more than beautiful, rather art and craft can be different, but these two can be similar in some ways.