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Topic 1 - Introduction To Arts

The document discusses key concepts in art including: - Defining art as the expression of creative skill and imagination for appreciation of beauty and emotional power. - Misconceptions about art, noting that everyone has artistic talents and art is not limited to the rich and famous. - Philosophies of art from Plato, Aristotle, and Kant, exploring art's relationship to reality, emotions, and the artist's freedom of expression. - Art aims to enhance lives and society through constructive expression of imagination and creativity.

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Topic 1 - Introduction To Arts

The document discusses key concepts in art including: - Defining art as the expression of creative skill and imagination for appreciation of beauty and emotional power. - Misconceptions about art, noting that everyone has artistic talents and art is not limited to the rich and famous. - Philosophies of art from Plato, Aristotle, and Kant, exploring art's relationship to reality, emotions, and the artist's freedom of expression. - Art aims to enhance lives and society through constructive expression of imagination and creativity.

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Introduction

to Arts
Intended Learning Outcomes

• Determine the assumptions of art


• Clarify misconceptions about art
• Characterize artistic expression
based on personal experience
• Apply concepts and theories on
beauty and aesthetics in real life
scenarios
Quote
Analysis
Etymology and Definition

• Ars (Latin) - skill, talent,


ability
• skill in making or doing
something (WBE, 1995)
• expression of creative
skill and imagination in
different genres for
appreciation of beauty
and emotional power
(Oxford, 2020)
• Art is part of life

• Imagination is an abstraction of a
certain thought or feeling based on
reality or experience (Hollick, 2014)
while expression is an automated
response to it.
Art Expression
When both means and ends are…

• Destructive: results to misery,


hinder progress, promote
chaos, and bring imminent
danger to society

• Constructive: enhances not


only the individual’s quality of
life essential but also the life
of others and the nation
Misconceptions of Art
Someone is an artist and the
others are not
✓ every individual has a talent
✓ we are skillful in everything
that we do that ends with
good purpose

Only for the rich and famous


✓ No bifurcation according to
status
✓ Humans are capable of
rationalization
Misconceptions of Art
➢ We fail to recognize
➢ Lethargy dictating us
not to do it

✓ Stop this complacency


✓ Hone our imagination
to its maximum
potential
Creativity and Art Appreciation
Imagination
• allows us to be creative
and create scientific
inventions and aesthetic.

Creativity
• metacognitive; divergent
thinking
• unstructured free flowing
process to capacitate the
body and create art.
Creativity and Art Appreciation

• Gives us pleasure
• Allows us to imagine
our past experiences
• Draws our feelings to
appreciate beauty
Creativity and Art Appreciation
• Craft without art is awful
with no appreciation.

• When craft is subjected to


mechanical and systemic
routine, production process is
dull and repetitive.

• Artists in industries must


continue to imagine latest
product innovations, designs,
packaging and marketing.
Art and Craft
Art Craft
form of work
an expression of
Inocian, with the use of
feelings and
2019 available
emotions
materials
Beautiful, rather More useful than
useful beautiful
Zulueta, Expression of Realization of
1994 imagination expression
Utilitarian and
Psychological
Mechanical
Explicit expression
of feelings from the
imagined core and
peripheral issues is
the “magic recipe”
of art.
Philosophy of Art
PLATO

• An artists’ work is
nothing but a copy
(mimesis) of the original
object that is found in
the world of ideas and
forms.

• Arts is inferior to
science and philosophy.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Philosophy of Art

ARISTOTLE

• Representation of reality
• Imitation of human life
• Artist’s unique way of
capturing the image of
reality in his own terms.
• Catharsis – purgation of
one’s emotions
“Every art, and every inquiry and
similarly every action and choice, is
ought to aim at some good; and for this
reason the good has rightly been
declared to be at which all things aim.”

- Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics


School of Athens
by Raphael
Philosophy of Art

IMMANUEL KANT

• Second nature to man


• No reason to engage in
art but the act itself
• Artists shouldn’t have
justification for their
work
• Freedom in one’s art
Philosophy of Art

IMMANUEL KANT

• Focus to succeed
• Artist’s fulfillment when
he accomplishes it the
way he wanted it to be
• Fame and recognition are
only secondary
“All industries, crafts, and arts have
gained by the division of labor, viz., one
man does not do everything, but each
confines himself to a certain kind of
work that is distinguished from all kinds
by the treatment it requires, so that the
work may be done with highest
perfection and with greater ease.”

- Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the


Metaphyics of Morals
Philosophical Themes in Art
• Integrity – faithfulness
to one’s principle

• An artist’s work follows


its own truth and is not
swayed by other people’s
motives.

• “Beauty is enhanced by
unashamed irregularities;
magnificence by a facade
of blunder”
Philosophical Themes in Art

• Proportion – consonance;
balance or consistency of
elements

• For effect; to emphasize


a certain element in the
work.
Philosophical Themes in Art

• Radiance – clarity;
meaning or impact upon
the observer

• When a viewer looks at


an artwork for instance,
his attention is caught by
the object immediately
as he lays his eyes on it.
“We make objects beautiful
to understand ourselves.
Art, then, must be a part of
any exploration of the good
life.”

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