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This document outlines the key points of a course module on awareness, creativity, and communication in art appreciation. The module discusses how experiences shape perception and visualization. It also explores the difference between awareness and perception. Additionally, the document defines key terms like aesthetics, iconology, and various artist types. The module aims to enhance students' understanding of how art encourages experience and problem solving through creative expression.

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College/Department Course Code Course Title Place of The Course in The Program Semester & Academic Year

This document outlines the key points of a course module on awareness, creativity, and communication in art appreciation. The module discusses how experiences shape perception and visualization. It also explores the difference between awareness and perception. Additionally, the document defines key terms like aesthetics, iconology, and various artist types. The module aims to enhance students' understanding of how art encourages experience and problem solving through creative expression.

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Republic of the Philippines

President Ramon Magsaysay State University


College of Communication and Information Technology
(Formerly Ramon Magsaysay Technological University)
Iba, Zambales, Philippines
Tel/Fax No.: (047) 811-1683

College/Department College of Communication and Information Technology


Course Code GEC 6
Course Title ART APPRECIATION
Place of the Course in the
Major
Program
Semester & Academic Year First Semester AY 2020-2021

INTRODUCTION
The arts are powerful methods of enhancing social engagement and well-being in older
adulthood. Literature on arts utility in translating knowledge about ageing and related processes
is emerging but poorly understood. We conducted a scoping review to map research on how the
arts are used for awareness, communication, and knowledge translation in older adulthood.

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

 Demonstrate an understanding of the terminology and conventions of visual expression.


 Able to identify well-known artists and artworks from major periods as presented in class by the
instructor.
 Demonstrate knowledge of the basic characteristics of the Modern period.

DISCUSSION

AWARENESS, CREATIVITY, AND COMMUNICATION

Visual Thinking

> Our experiences influence both inner visualization and outer seeing. For example, if 10 people
paint the same subject, even from the same vantage point, the result will be 10 different images
based on their experiences, values, and interests.

> Creative visual thinking draws from the varied levels of meaning and integrates rational and
intuitive capabilities of the brain (left brain vs. right brain).

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Perception and Awareness
> To be aware means to be conscious…to know something. To perceive is to become aware
through the senses and to understand through that awareness.

> When we look at something only in terms of a label or stereotype, we miss the thing itself…
we tend to vagueness rather than uniqueness.

Looking and Seeing


> Looking implies taking in what is in front of us in a purely mechanical way: seeing is a more
active extension of looking characterized by a higher level of perception.

Aesthetics, Art and Beauty


> Aesthetics refers to an awareness of beauty or to that quality in a work of art or other
handmade or natural form which evokes an elevated sense of awareness.

> Aesthetics should not be confused with the term “good taste” which almost always refers to an
established way of seeing. Innovative artists, seeking new ways of seeing, often challenge the
established conventions of taste.

> The criteria of beauty, as well as art, often are based on culturally accepted standards rather
than individual responses or personal intuition.

Art and Experience Art and Experience


> Art encourages us to experience our lives more vividly by causing us to re-examine our
thoughts and renew our feelings.

> The essence of art is the spark of insight and the thrill of discovery - first experienced by the
artist creating a work, then built into the work and finally, by the viewer.

> We can easily get caught up in thoughts and emotions that are separated from direct
experiences with our surroundings and can adopt dulled, programmed responses to our
environments. The best art can shake us out this rut and sharpen our perceptions and bring a new
sense of significance and connectedness to our lives.

Creativity
> Creativity is as fundamental to experiencing and appreciating art as it is to making art.
Insightful seeing is itself a creative act.

> Creativity is an attitude and we all have the potential to be creative yet most of us have not
been encouraged to develop our creativity.

> Creativity through art experiences enhances creative problem solving and communicating in
other areas of life. Creative expression helps to develop our abilities to integrate experiences of
the outside world with those of our inner selves.

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Iratus Glenn A. Cruz, LPT
Creativity in Children
> Children use a universal visual language. From ages there are similar stages of mental growth,
from mark-making to inventing shapes to symbolizing things seen and imagined. Until age 6,
children usually depict the world in symbolic rather than realistic ways. Their images are more
mental constructions than records of visual observation. > Children lose their intuitive sense of
design as they begin to look at the world from a conceptual, self-conscious point of view.

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Traits of Creativity Traits of people who have maintained or rediscovered the creative
attitude
* wonder and be curious
* be open to new experience
* see the familiar from an unfamiliar point of view
* take advantage of accidental events
* generalize from particulars in order to see broad applications
* synthesize, integrate, find order in disorder
* be in touch with one’s unconscious, yet be intensely conscious
* be able to analyze and evaluate
* know oneself, have the courage to be oneself in the face of opposition
* be willing to take risks
* be persistent: to work for long periods - perhaps years - in pursuit of a goal

Untrained and Folk Artists


> Those with little or no formal art education who make objects commonly recognized as art.
> Naïve or outsider artists (untrained artists) are creative individuals who are largely unaware of
art history or the art trends and fashions of their times…their art is a personal expression created
apart from any conventional practice or style.
> Folk artists are artists who are a part of established traditions of style, theme and
craftsmanship.

Trained Artists Trained Artists


> In contrast to untrained artists, who demonstrate unmannered originality, trained artists often
show a self-conscious awareness of their relationship to art history.
> Whether trained or untrained, artists must be independent thinkers and have the courage to go
beyond group mentality. In this way, artists offer fresh insights into the extended experiences of
those who see their art.

Visual Communication
> The most direct way to the mind is through the eyes. Since words and visual images are two
different “languages,” talking or writing about visual arts with words is always an act of
translation - and is one step removed from actually experiencing art.
> Conversely, an artist’s interpretation of a subject is more important than the actual subject.
How the image is composed, how the materials and techniques are employed, what is
emphasized, and what is left out all becomes the basis for an in-depth experience of a work of
art.

Content Iconology
>is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby
Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical
background of themes and subjects in the visual arts.
>
Though Panofsky differentiated between iconology and iconography, the distinction is not very
widely followed, "and they have never been given definitions accepted by all iconographers and
iconologists".

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>iconology is derived from synthesis rather than scattered analysis and examines symbolic
meaning on more than its face value by reconciling it with its historical context and with the
artist's body of work – in contrast to the widely descriptive iconography, which, as described by
Panofsky, is an approach to studying the content and meaning of works of art that is primarily
focused on classifying, establishing dates, provenance and other necessary fundamental
knowledge concerning the subject matter of an artwork that is needed for further interpretation.

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ACTIVITY

1. How does experiences influence both inner visualization and outer seeing?
2. Explain the difference between Awareness and perception in terms of arts.
3. How does experience affect arts? Give an example base on your own experience?

EXERCISES

1. Give 3 examples of Trained activity


2. Give 3 examples of Untrained activity
3. Draw an example of an arts and explain your arts in the following interpretation:
a. How image is composed?
b. How materials are employed?
c. What is emphasize?
d. How your experience effect on your arts?

SUGGESTED READINGS

 Claudio, L. E., et. al. (2018). Basic Arts C & E Publishing, Inc. Quezon City.
 Castro, L. N., et. al. (2010). Center Arts for Peace Education. Miriam College. Quezon City.
 Vega, V. A., et. al. (2009). Art Appreciation. Lorimar Publishing, Inc. Manila.

RESOURCES AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCE

Prepared by:
IRATUS GLENN CRUZ, LPT

Noted:
MICHAEL G. ALBINO, MIT

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