Defining Art Appreciation, Creativity, Imagination, & Expression Flashcards

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giving value to; increase the worth of; understand and recognize good qualities of

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Appreciation

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is the knowledge and understanding of the universal and timeless qualities that identify all great art and simply deals with learning or understanding and creating arts and enjoying

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Art appreciation

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the capacity to understand work of art and experience a certain emotional joyment in looking at other works of art or creating own arts

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Art Appreciation or Aesthetic education

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  • Gaining the knowledge to understand the art
  • Acquire the art methods and materials to discuss art verbally or by the written word.
  • Ability to identify the movements from ancient cultures to today’s contemporary art.
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Art Appreciation

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Every person is born with the innate desire to create art, and similar to other professions, training is essential in honing skills to produce art. Art education broadens a person’s comprehension, development, and visions of art. Art brings an understanding of diversity, how people lived in the past, and connects the issues concerning contemporary life and art today.

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Importance of Art appreciation

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Art can transform our lives. When we connect with art, we are ultimately connecting with our inner selves, look within and to listen to ourselves, realize who we are, and what we care about

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Art allows us to connect with our inner-selves

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we tend to be happier when we are able to look at life through a standpoint of appreciation and gratification

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Art causes us to have an appreciation and gratification for what we have in our lives

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Art gives us meaning and helps us understand our world. Scientific studies have proven that art appreciation improves our quality of life and makes us feel good

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Art brings more creativity, satisfaction, and happiness into our lives

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Who quoted this:
“arts gives us ability to improve our mood, broadens our attention and allows us to see possible and creative solutions to problems.”

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Shelley Carson

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Who quoted this:
“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.”

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Paulo Coelho

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“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.” -Paulo Coelho, Author

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Arts improve creative skills

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“Exercising our creativity can give us an outlet from our daily routines, helping us express emotions and boost our happiness levels” - Juliet Davey, Psychologist

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Art gives you joy

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Who quoted this:
“Exercising our creativity can give us an outlet from our daily routines, helping us express emotions and boost our happiness levels” Juliet Davey, Psychologist

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Juliet Davey, Psychologist

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Studies suggest that art therapy can be very valuable in treating issues such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and even some phobias.

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Arts relieves stress

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There are many different ways of expressing our artistic side, and we don’t have to aspire to be a professional. Art is for everybody, and we can enjoy it simply for its own sake. Our artistic abilities are there to be discovered.

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Arts gives us the opportunity to showcase our skills and talent.

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Arts education improves our confidence. Studies have shown that when an individual participates in art activities with peers, the feedback they give to each other builds self-respect by helping them learn to accept criticism and praise from others.

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Arts gives us confidence

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Study shows a few hours of art will help us relieve stress and give you happiness. With that our mind will be clear, and that would help us to focus on our studies, and that would help us get better grades

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Arts helps us do well academically

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Research shows that art therapy has a way of energizing the brain, even for those children who are non-verbal or are autistic. A calm mind helps us to be more social and react pleasantly.

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Arts helps us to communicate well with other people

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As they progress in Visual Arts, we develop perceptual skills in observation and the ability to respond and view artworks critically. We also develop the conceptual capacity to develop ideas and express them visually. They identify, analyze and interpret meaning in artworks from diverse contexts.

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Arts helps us learn visually

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Art can provide us with a very natural and safe way to express ourselves. It allows us to play, experiment, make a mess, create stories, use metaphors to represent feelings, explore alternative narratives, externalize feelings by creating characters, and reflect by sharing art with others.

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Arts helps you to express your emotions

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“Art is a profound mirror, always reflecting back who you truly are. Most people are petrified to take a look… But if you are brave enough, you can see right into your soul.” - Michelle Baker, Art Therapist

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Art is the language of the soul

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Who quoted this:
“Art is a profound mirror, always reflecting back who you truly are. Most people are petrified to take a look… But if you are brave enough, you can see right into your soul.”

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Michelle Baker, Art Therapist

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according to Webster’s, it is the ability to create and the quality of being creative

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Creativity

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an artist is the maker of the art and must be creative. Being a creative artist requires knowledge in using the imagination to explore innovative ideas, materials and tools applicable to any art form making

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Creativity in Art

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Artists will be the explorers who never stop. They will not be taken back by previous discoveries or preconceived notions. Creative artists will succeed because they are continuously open to new possibilities, and won’t see failure as a drawback but rather as a means of achieving greatness by becoming aware of what could improve.

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Opened to play

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We all know that artists, whether self-taught or otherwise, are creative, emotional, and often sensitive people. Most creative individuals share in common with the artist’s success and it depends on the degree to which they develop these traits.

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Artist’s emotion

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Creative people are constantly engaging in creating something new. They don’t wait for something to pass by. They are creating circumstances for the creation and therefore, increase their chances of success in whichever they are doing.

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A constant desire to create

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This does not mean waiting for the right time to come, take action instead preparing yourself for a long ride and understand where your motivation comes from. It means that you are starting the process and what benefits this creative process will bring to you.

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Preparing for creation

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This is time to brainstorm ideas and see what you want to create. What are the best ideas you came up with, and why do you think that they are good? But most importantly, how will you act on them?

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Incubating selected ideas

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The method or idea must be new and unique. It should not be the extension of something, which already exists. However, one can take inspiration from the already existing methods and ideas to fabricate something new and unique.

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Originality

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A creative idea must work and produce results, otherwise, the whole effort will be in vain

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Functionality

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creative people are energetic physically and mentally utilizing it to conceptualize ideas

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Energetic

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creative people are intelligent. Though a high level of IQ is a plus, most people are intelligent enough in creative thinking and smart to create new ideas

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Intelligent

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creativity happens unexpectedly, so whenever an artist is under any circumstances, he or she is ready to somehow make a note or record the ideas in any way possible.

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Disciplined

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People who possess deliberate and cognitive characteristics are purposeful. They have a great amount of knowledge about a particular subject and combine their skills and capabilities to prepare a course of action to achieve something.

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Deliberate and Cognitive Creative

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Their creativity is always a balanced product of deliberate emotional thinking and logical actions. Creativity is found in the amygdala, a part of the brain and is responsible for human emotions that helps in learning and information processing. This is actually a random moment referred to as “a-ha!” moments when someone suddenly thinks of a solution to some problem or thinks of some innovative idea.

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Deliberate and Emotional Creativity

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There are times when you spend a long time to crack a problem but can’t think of any solution or think of any possible way. But when you are having your relaxation time and suddenly everything falls in place. Remember the great scientist Isaac Newton’s law of gravity, the “Eureka” moments.

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Spontaneous and Cognitive Creativity

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This type of creativity are those moments that are defined as rare moments when great discoveries take place. There is no need to have specific knowledge for spontaneous and emotional creativity to happen but there should be a special skill to put the ideas into record in any way it can be.

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Spontaneous and Emotional Creativity

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Visualizing the unseen or impossible things or envisioning ideas that are not present in reality or wanting it to happen or exist.

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Imagination

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Allows the artists to synthesize existing ideas together from existing information.

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Effectuated Imagination

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The artist is able to work from an existing plan or a definite idea and is guided towards a distinct purpose.

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Intellectual or Constructive Imagination

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This is when you’re able to generate new ideas from scratch and can be guided or unguided.

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Imaginative Fantasy

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This is a capacity that human beings have to mentally detach from ourselves and experience what another person is experiencing from their point of view. It allows us to take an imaginative stroll in someone else’s shoes.

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Empathy

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This is primarily concerned with what-could-be scenarios. It’s the ability to spot opportunities and visualize what might happen if you were to take them. People who have an excellent strategic imagination will have a realistic understanding of their own skills, and be able to spot opportunities to develop

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Strategic Imagination

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An artist has to be aware of our emotions and the emotions of human beings more generally. The artists have to know how to create or project fear, how to create sadness, laughter and how the artist’s possess the ability to play on those emotions to generate form and structure that plays into this facet of the audience’s mindsets.

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Emotional imagination

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These are unconscious forms of imagination that we do when we’re asleep.

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Dreams

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When we retrieve our memories of people, objects and events we use our imagination to regenerate the images. Memories are subconscious stored bits of information dragged into our conscious brain and our imagination often fills the gaps where memory hasn’t been curated properly.

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Memory Reconstruction

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Who quoted this:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

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Einstein

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Individual expression of art, it reflects the artist’s personal thoughts, ideas, style and feelings.

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Expression

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(Natural release or reactions) - Expression of feelings often defined as a showing of emotion that comes from the inner world. Expression is the natural or intentional reaction in which emotional processes are made and reflected as a concrete phenomenon

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Expression of feelings

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(Philosophical Interpretation) - In many cultures, art is used in religion, spiritual or magical rituals, performances and dances as a decoration or symbol of a god or other divine quality. Anthropologists however know that this expression often serves a purpose at the level of meaning within a particular culture or social norms.

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Expression of beliefs and ideas

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(Expressing the nature of things) - Any moral message in the work should not, therefore affect the overall value of the artwork in its aesthetic quality, either positively or negatively. Artist’s and patrons of the arts also want to protect their creation from censorship. If an artwork is judged only on the basis of its aesthetic qualities, it should not be condemned for its moral message.

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Expression of Character

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a major field in art that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture architecture, crafts and photography.

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Visual art

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“acquaintance with letters” according to Oxford. It originates from the Latin word “littera” which means an individual written character. Literary art is a combined discipline of ideation, literary appreciation, and creative writing, which is mainly prose of both fiction and nonfiction, drama, and poetry.

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Literary arts

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means an individual written character

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Littera

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  • forms of art such as music, dance or drama In this category, artists is using voices, and physical body to convey message or artistic expression.
  • The body is considered the primary medium and conceptual material on which Performance art is based. Other key components are time, space and the relationship between performer and audience.
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Performing arts

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a visual language in the form of portraying stories thru moving images. Cinematic or movie arts is a combination of many disciplines and crafts to produce a more realistic emotional experience for the audience, entertainment and learning as well.

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Cinematic and Video arts

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Who quoted this:

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”

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Thomas Merton