Personal response After reading the article Everyone is an Artist written by Megan Kokomo, it gave me a great chance to look back of myself and to think again about the controversial topic: “What is art and who is the Real Artist?” In the beginning of the article, the author illustrates the reasons why a child easy to loose his creativity and imagination when he grows up. She argues that the extract criteria and inflexible grading standard are main elements that can make children disappointed about their art; this not only repress their creativity but also can cause them to stop using the precious talented ability they have. No surprisingly, as a student who attend a art college, I have a positive attitude to the opinion the author mentioned
3. Critically analyse how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social, intellectual, communication and physical development.
Creative development is important to a child’s learning because it helps them to use their mind and imagination and express their own ideas, and through playing with their friends it also helps them to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It helps them to make connections in their thinking and the way in which they problem solve, by doing things over and over again they reinforce their thinking and learning, they develop self-esteem, confidence, imagination & learning to work together in groups. It puts down the foundations for more
Since the beginning of time, artists have labored extensively to find innovative ways to convey sentiment, passion, and feeling. Telling stories and trying to unlock the minds of people through different avenues of artistic labors. Art touches and affects people in unique ways; it can have special or unusual meaning on the person depending on how one views it. Artists’ rendering of their art is interpreted in numerous ways by others who view it unless it is explained by the artist on its meaning giving a clear example of what they are portraying. Two people looking at the same painting, sculpture, portrait, or photo may come to different views on the arts meaning even though they are looking
Children’s creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
In a society where everything is constantly shifting and changing, it is essential for education to move away from teaching facts and figures to educating to inspire curiosity and creativity. The need for creativity in the classroom matters more than ever in our society. "Creativity is no longer seen as just being for artists and musicians .It's a crucial skill for everybody to master. "the following three articles were elaborated critique Department thinking, creativity and observation of contact,
Empathy and Knowledge What is an artist? An artist can be described as someone who is skilled at a specific task. An artist looks and does art in depth. Art requires the artist to have empathy and knowledge.
What makes children so different even when they are the same age? This is an important question and one that has not yet been fully answered. We do know, however that children’s development is shaped both by intrinsic or personal factors, such as their health, but also external factors such as their family environment and their access to educational provision. This means that while a child may be born with the potential to be a great artist, this potential is unlikely to be realized unless the child has the chance to paint and draw and is encouraged by adults.
1.3 Critically analyze how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social, intellectual, communication and physical development
Criticizing artwork is very easy task to do by anyone, but understanding the meaning behind a piece of artwork can only be noticed by individuals with some knowledge of art. In certain occasions humans tend to ignore something that they don’t like, which might lead them to make negative conclusions about a subject. How an object is portrayed with the use of color, and shapes can affect the feelings of any audience. Art skills are developed throughout the life of a person, but only dedicated artists who are trained to receive criticism, or who are empowered by their artistic teachers tend to become more successful. Oscar Gutierrez is an artist who has four years of experience working as an art teacher assistant at his local high school,
“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. “- Francis Bacon. However when I learnt more about history of art and the way each movement and happenings in the world inspired artist to make new works, I was able to see much more than just a canvas with random paints and sketches. The interesting part about this concept is that each piece of art could be interpreted in many different ways. In contemporary art there isn’t right and wrong, each of us view and find different meanings and connections with artworks.
A universal understanding of art and identity is that art is a reflection of identity. For many, this is the case. For others, art is their identity, and even others feel that art is separate from their personal identity. Perhaps, art has an identity of its own. To Cindy Sherman, identity is something that we construct, and art can be used to simulate the same identity. Constructed subconsciously, identities are not as simple as what portrayal the artist was modelling, but rather, the individual experiences of each person impacts how we interpret the depiction.
Art, in each and every form that it comes in, shows us who we are. Our
For over two thousand years, various philosophers have questioned the influence of art in our society. They have used abstract reasoning, human emotions, and logic to go beyond this world in the search for answers about arts' existence. For philosophers, art was not viewed for its own beauty, but rather for the question of how art and artists can help make our society more stable for the next generation. Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived during 420-348 B.C. in Athens, and Aristotle, Plato’s student who argued against his beliefs, have no exceptions to the steps they had to take in order to understand the purpose of art and artists. Though these two philosophers made marvelous discoveries about the existence of art, artists, and
The doodle a woman makes on her notepad while on hold with the dentist’s office is a creation, and therefore art. An incredibly complex and lifelike portrait that took months to plan and paint is a creation, and therefore art. One does not have to create within the confines of traditional artistic thought to be an artist. By looking inward within one’s self, finding inspiration from existence, and executing a work, one is an artist.
Debate over the definition of art has developed for hundreds, if not thousands of years. People have spent millions of dollars and given years of their lives to the craft called art. However, there has not been an agreement on what the definition of art is because it tends to be a very vague concept incorporating many cultures and ideas. It has proven itself to be an effective tool in the human expression over the years preserving deep and personal feelings along with history. Art can be defined as the creation of beauty through expression with skillful use of creativity, design, and manipulation of the viewers’ emotions.