Assumptions and Nature of Arts:

Creativity, Imagination, and Expression

Lesson 1
 Fields of Learning

The Sciences The Humanities

Deals with natural, physical phenomena Deals with human phenomena
Paradigm for Learning in the Sciences

Subject-Knower Object-Known

“The scientist learns about things in the world.”

Paradigm for Learning in the Humanities
Subject-Knower = Object-Known

Reflexive
Method

“The humanist learns about the self.”

 Who am I?
Socrates – “Know Thyself”
Augustine – “Withdraw into yourself, truth dwells in the inner man.”

The Sciences
Knowledge The Humanities
The scientist becomes a LEARNED MAN.
Wisdom
The scientist becomes a WISE MAN.

“A scientist tends to know everything about the world

that he forgets to know anything about himself.”
– Thales of Miletus
What is Art?
• Art is derived from a Latin word
“ars” meaning ability or skills.

• Art is a product of man’s creativity,

imagination and expression.

• Not everyone can be considered an

artist, but all are spectators of art.
The Scream by Edvard Munch

1. How does the artwork make you feel?

2. What do you think the artist is trying

to say with this artwork?

3. What techniques or materials does

the artist use, and how do they impact
the piece?
 1. How does the artwork
make you feel?

2. What do you think the

artist is trying to say
with this artwork?

3. What techniques or
materials does the artist
use, and how do they
impact the piece?

Planting Rice by Fernando Amorsolo

 1. How does the artwork make you
feel?

2. What do you think the artist is

trying to say with this artwork?

3. What techniques or materials

does the artist use, and how do
they impact the piece?

La Pieta by Michelangelo
Art Appreciation
“The role of art as a creative work is to
depict the world in a completely
different light and perspective.”
-Jean Paul Sartre

 Each artwork beholds beauty in its

own kind, the kind that the artist
sees and wants the viewers to
perceive.
What is appreciation?
Is appreciation the
same as “like” or
“love?
What is appreciation?
• recognition of the good qualities
and understanding of art

• acquiring knowledge leads to

appreciation

• knowing vocabulary, concepts,

themes, processes, materials
The Role of Creativity in Art Making
 Creativity requires thinking outside the box.
 In art, creativity is what sets apart from one artwork
from another.

When can we say that something is creative?

 When we have not seen anything like it
 When it is out of the ordinary
 When it is not just a copy or imitation of someone’s work.
Being creative nowadays can be quite challenging!
Art as a product of imagination:
Imagination as product of art
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and
understand, while imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be to know and
understand.” – Albert Einstein
Art as an 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
Assumptions of Art
 Art is Universal
“Art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good.”
-Dudley et al., 1960

Timeless, spanning generations and

continents through and through.
It connects us through emotions and ideas even if we come
from different backgrounds.
 Art is not nature
It is made by humans as expression of their
reception or interpretation about nature.
– Caslib et.al 2017; Dudley et al., 1960

Man’s expression of his reception of nature.

One’s reception about nature may include distortion,

modification or alteration of the reality to satisfy his creative
imagination that is influenced by nature.
 Art involves experience
Art is just an experience that depicts the actual
doing of something.
– Caslib et al., 201

When we look at art, we also bring our own

experiences of the artist and the viewer. An artist
creates from their own life, feelings, and
thoughts.
 Art involves experience
An important aspect of experiencing art is its
being highly personal, individual, and subjective.

Degustibus non disputandum est.

“Matters of taste are not matters of dispute.”
The Task of the Artists
1. Create places for human purposes
The Task of the Artists
2. Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
The Task of the Artists
3. Record and commemorate
The Task of the Artists
4. Give tangible form to the unknown
The Task of the Artists
5. Give tangible form to feelings and ideas
 Classification of Arts
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VISUAL ARTS LITERARY ARTS PERFORMING ARTS

• Drawing • Poetry Performance • Music

• Painting • Short Story • Theater
• Photography • Novels • Dance
• Architecture • Poems
• Sculpture • Comics
 Classification of Arts
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FILM APPLIED ARTS
Film refers to the art of Incorporating elements of
putting together successions style and design to everyday
of still images in order to items with the aim of
create an illusion of increasing their aesthetical
movement. value.
• Industrial design
It focuses on its aesthetic,
cultural, and social value • Interior design
and is considered both an • Fashion design
art and an industry. • Graphic design
 Classification of Arts
1 2 3

VISUAL ARTS LITERARY ARTS PERFORMING ARTS

• Drawing • Short Story • Music

• Painting • Novels • Theater
• Photography • Poems • Dance
• Architecture • Comics
• Sculpture
Learning Task
No. 2
 Learning Task No. 2
Show your creativity,
expression, and imagination and
present your artistic skills in any
art work/presentation.
20% Creativity and Originality
20% Expression and Emotion
20% Aesthetic Appeal
20% Presentation
20% Preparedness
100% Total