Week 2-Module 1 - What is Art: Introduction and Assumptions.docx
- 1. 1 Week 2 MODULE 1. What is Art: Introduction and Assumptions 1. Understand the role of humanities and arts in man’s attempt at fully realizing his end. 2. Enumerate misconceptions and assumptions about art. 3. Engage better with personal experiences of and in art. Content: Art by definition is a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation; a branch of learning; the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; and produced as an artistic effort or for decorative purposes (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). In Filipino, art is “sining” with the following definition (Diksiyonaryong Filipino): 1: kalidad, produksiyon, o ekspresyon ng anumang maganda, kaakit-akit, at may kahalagahang higit sa karaniwan alinsunod sa mga prinsipyong estetiko 2: mga bagay na nilikha ayon sa pamantayang estetiko, gaya ng pintura, at eskultura 3: uri o kategorya ng sining (halimbawa: sayaw at eskultura 4: anumang larangan na guma-gamit ng kasanayán o malikhaing pamamaraan 5: prinsipyo o metodo na gumagabay sa anumang uri ng kasanayán o pag-aaral 6: kasanayán o kahusayan sa pagsasagawa ng anumang aktibidad 'Spoliarium' by Juan Luna, at the National Museum of the Philippines This image by Marco Collado is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 from Wikimedia Commons.
- 2. 2 Art is one of the humanities. Humanities are the branches of knowledge that concern with human beings and culture. This also deals with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself (Britannica). Assumptions About Arts Art is a form of creation. The creation of a work of art such as enhancement of beauty and artistry is bringing about of a new combination of elements in the medium. Creation is the re-formation of these pre-existing materials. But don’t make mistook art as nature. The elements existed beforehand or created by God is considered as nature. Art is subjective. This is the point of the “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This is use to express the fact that not all people have the same opinions about what is attractive (Cambridge Dictionary). Art involves experience. Art is an expression. Art conveys reality. Art may be described by the term artistic expression and experience of (1) artist in creating it, and (2) the critic or anyone else in viewing it. Moreover, some assumptions are challenge such as art as reflecting states of the external world, This, seems to be implicit in the core meaning of expression: the outer manifestation of an inner state. Art as a representation of outer existence has been replaced by art as an expression of humans’ inner life. The concepts expounded made us look back in our past experiences with art. But actually, even without reading the above-mentioned definition, art seems to be very noticeable and identifiable for us. Art is part of our everyday life. But as we go along with the course, we should have a perspective and picture on how are we going to think and look forward on why study of arts and humanities is very important. Garden of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum This image of Suicasmo is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Share Alike 4.0 from Wikimedia Commons. Challenge Look for art that represents each assumption.
- 3. 3 The Role of Humanities and Arts in Man’s Attempt at Fully Realizing His End Art is always associated with creativity. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, creativity is a facet of self-actualization or the top most realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone (Oxford Languages). Here, Maslow breaks with the practice of defining creativity in terms of product. Most scholars (still) assume that creativity is the process that results in something novel and useful while on the other hand, Maslow observes that psychological health is not related to productive achievement. Instead, there is a greater connection between psychological health and usual creativity. Maslow defines creativity in characterological terms, with cheerfulness and openness to new experience. To Maslow, creative people are like happy and secure. Creative individuals overcome inhibition from themselves and never succumb to it. “They are less enculturated, less afraid of what others might say, less afraid of their own impulses, more self-accepting. Less controlled, less inhibited, less planned, less willed. Nutty, silly, crazy.” as explained by Joachim I Krueger Ph.D. , a Professor of Psychology. Other than Maslow’s idea, John Dewey has also something to say about the full realization of human being through arts. Art was an integral part of human life even before the museum and institutional history of art. Break between art and daily life happened when art was declared as an independent field. Theories further distance art by presenting it as something disconnected from daily experience. In John Dewey’s Art As Experience (1934), aesthetic experience is presented as integral to the organic completion of human nature, these works provide expression of a now obsolete view of aesthetics as central to the understanding not of art alone but of the human condition as well. New York Daily News painting by William Michael Harnett This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 from Wikimedia Commons. click on the clipping to see source Think about this . . . How does studying arts and humanities lead a person to the fulfillment of his needs for self-actualization or to fully realize his end?
- 4. 4 Assessment: I. Complete the chart based on your observation and the things you learned about art. II. Fill out the man by writing possibilities on how a he can fully realize his end through arts. ART
- 5. 5 References: Ryder, W. W. (1987). The Role of Art in Self-Actualization. Art Education, 40(2), 22–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3193064 Krueger, J. I. (2013, September 7). Maslow on Creativity. Psychology Today. Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/one-among- many/201309/maslow-creativity Duignan, B. (Ed.). (n.d.). Humanities. Britannica. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanities Chaliakopoulos, A. (2020, October 18). Art as Experience: An In-Depth Guide to John Dewey’s Theory of Art. The Colector. Retrieved May 4, 2022, from https://www.thecollector.com/author/antonischaliakopoulos/