Course Outline in Art Studies

Course Description:
Art Studies deals with the artistic culture of society as a whole. It particularly
focuses on the introductory study and appreciation of the various types of art,
specifically of the visual arts, and their specific characters, relationships to reality,
origins, laws of development, roles in the history of social consciousness, and
interdependences with social life and with other cultural phenomena. The discipline
embraces the study of literature, music, theater, and the cinema, as well as the study
of art in the narrower and popular sense—the plastic or spatial arts like architecture,
painting, sculpture, graphic art, and decorative applied art.

Prelim Coverage
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
a. An Overview of Humanities
b. The Nature, Meaning, and Importance of Art
c. Relationship of Arts to the Humanities
d. The Reasons Why Studying Art
e. Subject of Art
 Methods of Presenting the Art Subjects
f. Assumptions of Art
g. Functions of Art
h. Grouping the Arts
SEMIOTICS IN ART
a. Meaning of Semiotics and Its Importance in Art
b. The Semiotic Theory and Semiotic Analysis
c. Theories of Sign
 Ferdinand de Saussure
 Charles Saunders Peirce
 Roland Barthes

Midterm Coverage
ART HISTORY
a. Art History of the Philippines
 The Early Beginnings of Art in the Philippines
 Contributions of Art to the Philippine Culture
b. Early (Visual) Art Works in Other Countries (Asia, Europe, America and Latin
America, and African Cultures)
 Literary art
 Musical
 Visual art
MODERN ART AND CONTEMPORARY ART
a. Comparison of Modern Art and Contemporary Art
b. Characteristics of Modern and Contemporary Art

Pre-final Coverage
THE VISUAL ARTS
a. Definition of Visual Arts
b. Guidelines in Understanding a Work of Art
The Mediums of Visual Arts
a. Painting
 Definition
 History
 Elements
 Types
 Modern Filipino Painters
 Famous Foreign Painters
b. Architecture
 Definition and Importance
 History
 Types
 Asian, American, and European Architecture
c. Sculpture
 Meaning
 History
 Features
 Kinds and Characteristics
 Development of Sculpture in the Philippines and Outside the Philippines

Final Coverage
THE ART OF LITERATURE, MUSIC, DANCE, FILM/CINEMA AND
THEATERS
a. The Art of Literature
 Definition of Literature
 Reasons Why Read and Study Literature
Drama as an Art
 Definition of Drama
 Drama in the Philippines and Other Countries
b. Theaters and Film/Cinema
 Definitions
 Brief History of Theater, Film/Cinema in the Philippines
  Importance, Influence, and Contributions to the Society and Popular
Culture
c. Music
 Definition and History
 Reasons What Makes Music an Art
 Famous Musicians in the Philippines and Other Countries
 Popular Culture & Music
 The Beginnings of the OPM
 Importance, Influence, and Contributions to the Society and Popular
Culture
d. Dance: The Art of Movement
 Definition of Dance as an Art
 Value of Dance as an Art Form
 History
 Dance Evolution
 Dances of the World