SOULMAKING, APPROPRIATION, AND IMPROVISATION

Question 1

Phases of soul making:

Answer 1

o SEEKING
o SETTING
o SURRENDER
o SOULMAKING
o SOARING

Question 2

• The first step is ___________ or finding. In some Integral sense, these tools and practices can be fitted together and allowing us to settle down. Searching is a vital stage of our growth as a soul builders. It can also moved us on to a practice or cluster of practices that satisfy our creativity and passion, and that we can then spend time perfecting

Answer 2

SEEKING

Question 3

Soul making is about communicating as profoundly as possible with the soul, with other human and non-human beings (and this means the future of humans and non-humans )and with the world. We must find ourselves settled at some point in our lives.

Answer 3

SETTING

Question 4

The capacity to __________, of course, is restricted by the amount of pain and uncertainty that we can bear. We tend to note in the midst of the crashing that our activities begin to be in the service of the soul. True surrender takes us up and throws us down; calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted;
forces us to spend time living in the darkness

Answer 4

SURRENDER

Question 5

The variations between the Settling and Surrender dual polarities, we begin to perceive our practice and life in the universe as __________.

____________ is the fourth stage, in which the individual transitions from a stage of improving reflective practice to becoming a practitioner of soul making.

Answer 5

SOULMAKING

Question 6

When we begin the journey, what we most wish is to soar. We could find ourselves _________, together, engulfed in the air and sky, by enabling ourselves to pass through the stages of Soul Making.

Answer 6

SOARING

Question 7

Categories of soulmaking

Answer 7

o Crafting Images
o Crafting Stories
o Crafting Instruments
o Crafting Movements
o Crafting Techniques

Question 8

includes the production, by various forms
and methods, of visual representations of images. Any art form such as drawing, sketching, and sculpting can be used to perform this process. Dancing, poetry (or
black-out poetry), musical instrument playing, and even filmmaking may also do
this.

Answer 8

Crafting Images

Question 9

He or she is already ______________ when an individual writes down his or her own personal feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even high and low emotions. Similar to crafting images, he or she may be portrayed by different means when one craft story is presented. Stories can be relayed via vivid photos, calming music, and impactful sentences.

Answer 9

Crafting Stories

Question 10

are treated as “a bridge to the unknown because the instrument creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions, and sensations. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul will not disappear.” Instruments help people explore the magic behind music and its unique impact on a person. Such musical instruments can establish the soul’s harmonious sustenance and the mind’s balance

Answer 10

Crafting Instruments

Question 11

– Life is movement, according to Dr. Narciso (2016). [One’s] life is full of different rhythms. “Our life is full of movements, it is full of different rhythms, life is full of flowing images accompanied by narratives, and this melodic flow symbolizes how the universe gives every human being the ability in their respective lives to experience the highs and lows.” For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement, the pattern that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration.

Answer 11

Crafting Movements

Question 12

Crafting techniques in soulmaking are the
artist’s reflection of his life and experiences in any piece of art. The approach, preferably, should be methodological. A soulmaker, though, when he executes his creative expression, is unbounded.

Answer 12

Crafting Techniques

Question 13

distinctive handling of elements and media associated with the work of an individual artist, a school, a movement, or a specific culture or time period.
(Fitchner-Rathus, 2013).

Answer 13

Styles

Question 14

• what the audience sees-a finished product put harmoniously (or not) according to the different principles of design
• totality of the artwork, which includes the textures, colors, and shapes utilized by the artist.

Answer 14

Forms

Question 15

includes not only its form but also its subject matter and underlying meaning or themes.

Answer 15

Contents

Question 16

• Defined as doing something without prior preparation.
• There is a decision to act upon something that may not necessarily be planned.
• Evident in the process of making the painting
• Traditionally, forgery can be classified into two forms: outright copies of existing works and pastiches

Answer 16

Improvisation

Question 17

One of the central figures in the improvisation movement was ___________________.
He started the “action painting” wherein the process is seen real-time. In scenario,
the process is more important than the finished product.

Answer 17

George Mathieu

Question 18

works that bring together elements from a work and infusing them to a new work

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outright copies of existing works and pastiches

Question 19

• During the twentieth century, people started raising the question whether the act of
  deriving meaning gives the ownership of the viewer rather than the artist himself.
  This notion paved the way for the emergence of appropriation artists who seem to
  promote the idea that the authorship relies on the viewer. If this is the case, then
  appropriation artists can take as much as he wants from an existing artwork.
• Appropriation of art has been a common practice throughout history.
• In the past, if an apprentice painter needs to done his skills in his craft, he would
  be allowed to use his master’s work to copy. It is as if the apprentice is trying to
  explore his personal application of techniques to something he is more familiar with.
  However, there are some people who go to the extreme by believing that copying
  the exact artwork of an artist and attributing it to his own.
• One of the most famous works of appropriation would have to be Andy Warhol’s
  Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962)

Answer 19

Appropriation

Question 20

• one who originates or gives existence to a piece of work

Answer 20

Author

Question 21

determines a responsibility for what is created by that author

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Authorship

Question 22

• The first artists to successfully demonstrate forms of appropriation within his work.
• He devised the concept of the ‘readymade’, which essentially involved an item being chosen by the artist, signed by the artist and repositioned into a gallery context.

Answer 22

Marcel Duchamp

Question 23

• Writer of “The Death of the Author” (1966)
• He argued that we should not look to the creator of a literary or artistic work when attempting to interpret the meaning inherent within.

“The explanation of a work is always sought in the man or woman who created it…(but) it is language which speaks: not the author.”

Answer 23

Roland Barthes