Expression
The role of Expression in Art Making
ARTAS EXPRESSION “What an artist does to an emotion is
not to induce it, but express it. Through expression, he is
able to explore his own emotions and at the same time,
create something beautiful out of them.”
– Robin George Collingwood
Expressingemotions is different from describing emotions.
This makes people’s art not a reflection of what is outside
or external to them, but a reflection of their inner selves.
The role of Expression in Art Making
Throughexpression, one is able to explore his own
emotions and at the same time, create something
beautiful out of them.
Expressing emotions is something different from describing
emotions.
Description actually destroys the idea of expression, as it
classifies the emotion, making it ordinary and predictable.
Expression on the other hand, individualizes the artist.
VISUAL ARTS
Creations that fall under this category are
those that appeals to the sense of sight and
are mainly visual in nature. Artists produce
visual arts driven by their desire to reproduce
things that they have seen in the way that
they perceived them.
There are also other artistic disciplines that
also involve a visual aspect, such as
performance arts, theater, and applied arts.
Some mediums of visual arts include
paintings, drawings, letterings, printing,
sculpture, digital imaging.
FILM
Film refers to the art of putting together
successions of still images in order to create an
illusion of movement. Filmmaking focuses on its
aesthetic, cultural, and social value and is
considered both an art and an industry.
Techniques in film-making process: Motion-
picture camera (also known as movie camera)
Animation techniques, Computer-generated
imagery (CGI)
Filmmaking simulates experiences or creates
one that is beyond the scope of our
imagination as it aims to deliver ideas, feelings,
or beauty to its viewers.
PERFORMANCE ART
Performance art is a live art and the artist’s
medium is mainly the human body which he or
she uses to perform, but also employs other
kind of art such as visual art, props, or sound.
Elements of performance arts: Time-Where the
performance took place, The performer’s
body, and Relationship between the audience
and the performer(s).
The fact that performance art is live makes it
intangible, which means it cannot be bought
or traded as a commodity.
The performing arts are arts such as music,
dance, and drama which are performed for
an audience.
POETRY PERFORMANCE
Poetry is an art form where the artist expresses
his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or
camera, but expresses them through words.
These words are carefully selected to exhibit
clarity and beauty and to stimulate strong
emotions of joy, anger, love, sorrow among
others.
It uses a word’s emotional, musical, and spatial
values that go beyond its literal meaning to
narrate emphasize, argue, or convince.
These words combined with movements, tone,
volume, and intensity of the delivery add to the
artistic, value of the poem
ARCHITECTURE
Art is the pursuit and creation of beautiful
things while architecture is the making of
beautiful buildings.
However, not all building are beautiful
because some only embody the
functionality they need, but the structure,
lines, forms, and colors are not beautifully
expressed.
Important elements: Plan, Construction,
and Design. Buildings should embody these
three important elements if they wish to
merit the title architecture.
DANCE
Dance is series of movements that follows
the rhythm of the music accompaniment.
Dancing is a creative art form that allows
people to freely express themselves. IT HAS
NO RULES.
Choreography may seem not to allow this,
but in art expression, dancers are not
confined to set steps and rules but are free
to create and invent their own movements
as longs as they deem them graceful and
beautiful.
LITERARY ART
Artists who practice literary arts use words to
express themselves and communicate
emotions to the readers. Simply becoming
a writer does not make one a literary artist.
Literary art goes beyond the usual
professional, academic, journalistic and
other technical forms of writing.
It focuses on writing using a unique style,
not following a specific format or norm. It
may include both fiction and non-fiction
such as novels, biographies, and poems.
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
THEATER
Theater uses live performers to present
accounts or imaginary events before a live
audience. Theater art performance usually
follows follow a script, though they should not
be confused with literary arts.
Like in filmmaking, theater also considers
several elements such as acting, gesture,
lighting, sound effects, musical score, scenery
and props.
Like performance art, theater also is a live
performance.
Genres: drama, musical, tragedy, comedy and
improvisation
APPLIED ARTS
Applied arts is incorporating elements of
style and design to everyday items with the
aim of increasing their aesthetic value.
Artists in this field bring beauty, charm, and
comfort into many things that were useful in
everyday life.
Industrial design, interior design, fashion
design, graphic design
Answer the following questions as
precisely yet as thoroughly as possible.
What art field will you explore?
Why?
How can you utilize the arts to
express yourself, your community,
and your relation to others?
