Lesson 1
being and his feelings and how he
ART AND HUMANITIES
ART
Art is a diverse range of human
activities in creating visual, auditory
or performing artifacts (artworks),
expressing author's imaginative,
conceptual ideas, the or technical
skill, intended to be appreciated for
their beauty or emotional power.
The expression or application of
human creative skill and
imagination, typically in a visual
form such as painting or sculpture,
producing works to be appreciated
primarily for their beauty or
emotional power.
HUMANITIES
Humanities = Latin humanus, which
means human, cultured, and
refined.
• To be human is to have or show
qualities like rationality, kindness,
and tenderness.
• Unlike other subjects, it is not
group of scientific or technical
subjects.
• The humanities are studies about
human culture, such as literature,
philosophy, and history.
Humanities, those branches of
knowledge that concern
themselves with human beings and
their culture or 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.com)
• Humanities embrace literature,
languages, music and art history
and philosophy.
• Concerned with the thoughts,
creations, and actions of man in the
past and in the present. They tell
man about his roots, his origin, his
neighbours, himself.
Arts and Humanities
The Arts and Humanities include
the disciplines of ancient and
modern languages, literature,
philosophy. visual and performing
arts. These disciplines explore,
share, and recreate expressions of
the human experience.
HUMANITIES
Refers to the arts:
• Visual arts such as architecture,
painting, and sculpture; music,
dance, the theater or drama, and
literature.
• They are branches of learning
concerned with human thought,
feelings, and relations.
• The importance of the human
or played for several years.
express those feelings have always
been the concern of the
humanities.
• Art, like love is not easy to define.
It concerns itself with the
communication of certain ideas and
feelings by means of a sensous
medium-color, sound, bronze,
marble, words, film, and literature.
• This medium is fashioned into a
symbolic language marked by
beauty of design and coherence of
form.
• It appeals to our minds, arouses
our emotions. kindles our
imagination, and enchants our
sense (Machlis, 1963)
Visual Art
The art that we perceive through
our eyes and architecture is part of
it. Involves not only painting and
sculpture but includes things such
as:
• Visual Arts include much more
than painting, sculpture, and
architecture. Out of the many
common things we use in our daily
lives, we derive real pleasure.
• A chair for example, can be
beautiful as well as comfortable.
• A great range of objects can be
included in the visual arts, from
purely useful products at one
extreme to those that were
designed for aesthetic appeal on
the other.
• Because of this range, we are
surrounded by art in all these things
we see, hear, do, or use. The
Aesthetic aspects of any work, a
painting, song, story, dance, or
play-are what make art.
• Aesthetics refers to the forms and
psychological forms of art.
MUSIC
• Art of combining and regulating
sounds of varying pitch to produce
compositions expressing various
ideas and emotions.
• Primary function is to entertain.
Thus when sounds are not
regulated or when a piece of music
is played improperly or in full blast,
as in case of unrelated stereo, it
ceases to give pleasure or it fails in
its purpose.
• Great artwork of our civilization
along with literature, painting,
sculpture architecture, and dance
• Deals with emotion. It's being a
"pure heart" enables it convey
emotions with great intensity and
can affect people directly. Great
music especially, radiates infectious
joy.
• The song we sing may be a tune
which is popular now but may
possibly be forgotten later. It may
be a selection which has been sung
Dance
• Most direct of the arts for it
makes use of the human body as its
medium.
• Dance heightens the pleasure of
being, and at the same time mirrors
the life of society.
Primitive and Non-Primitive Dance
Ifugaos dance
To celebrate the victory of the
warriors after a fight with their
enemies
Bagobos dance
To show gratitude to the spirits "for
success war or domestic affair"
Indian Dance
To give thanks for a harvest
Mexican dance
To celebrate religious festival
Teenagers dance Parties
Disco both old and young
Children dance everywhere
because it is pleasurable to express
happiness through bodily
movements.
Drama
• Drama activities are usually part
of every school and community
program.
• Classes dramatize the events they
are studying:
• Clubs Organizations and
Institutions stage plays.
Drama
• Motion picture popular addition
to the various forms of the theater.
• Radio makes drama available for
the Auditory sense and
imagination.
• Television brings art of the drama
to many people.
Play
• Form of literature.
• Scenery and costume provide the
visual arts and music may serve as
background to set the mood or to
serve as the part of the plot.
• Opera Is a drama set to music. It
is a form of the theater.
What The Arts Have Common?
• The most basic relationship is that
the arts are concerned with
emotions with our feelings about
things.
• Exciting Lovely and Stirring
• People experience excitement,
pleasure, anger, and all other
emotional states in a way which is
very different from their intellectual
responses.
• Emotions are part of our basic
nature.
Artist
• The person who exhibits
exceptional skills in design,
drawing, painting and the like who
works in one of the performing
arts, like an actor or musician
• More sensitive and creative
• When he sees or learns
something that impresses him, he
expresses himself in one medium or
another so that the others may
understand it too.
Creator and Performers
A composer writes a song to be
sung by talented singer
A dramatist or playwright writes a
play to be staged by a company of
actors.
A choreographer composes a ballet
or sequence which will be
performed by a troupe of dancers.
• A song cannot be considered
complete until it has been sung: or
a ballet until it has been danced.
• Individual interpretations to their
performers. Two great actors may
play the same role in Florante at
Laura yet it gives vastly different
interpretations; two dancers may
dance the same ballet but render it
quite differently.
• Thus, in the performing arts, the
ideas and the interpretations of the
performer are added to the original
ideas of the creator. This dual
contribution gives added richness
and meaning to these fields of arts.
• The creative artists communicate
directly with the observer.
Lesson 2
Arts and humanities
• The work of the creative artist
• Creativity is an artist trait
developed in the course of his life
to solve problems or express his
feelings.
• His continuing reaction to
emerging conditions of nature and
social life gives birth to new ideas
and new methods. These in turn, he
uses to overcome difficulties which
in the process of confrontation with
reality, give the solution to a vision,
create art, or activate social
transformation.
The process of creativity
Artist as the prime mover, A. Graphic Arts
communicating his ideas through
the performer, as his interpreter to I. Painting
the audience.
Art of creating meaningful effects
The process of creation on a flat surface by the use of
pigments.
The IDEA The materials of the painter are
pigments applied to wet plaster,
• Artists are highly sensitive canvas, wood, or paper.
persons specially aware of the
things that surround them. They II. Drawing
notice the sounds, colors, and
movements of people and things, Is the art of representing something
• A study of arts is the study of by lines made on a surface or the
humankind, for through the arts we process of portraying an object,
can discover man's major interests, scene or forms of decorative or
feelings, and problems through the symbolic meaning through lines,
ages. shading, and textures in one or
• The art of the ancient Egypt more colors. Mediums used include
shows clearly how the people of pencil, pen and ink, crayon, brush,
that time were pre occupied with and charcoal.
the life after death, for many of
their most impressive monuments III. Graphic Process
were erected as tombs for the
pharaohs.
These are processes for making
multi-reproduction of graphic
THE MATERIAL AND PROCESS works. All processes involve the
preparation of a master image of
• The second phase of creation in the drawing or the design on
art concerns the material which the something durable material such as
artist uses to give form to his idea. wood, metal, or stone from which
• A painter uses pigments; a printing is done. Processes may be
sculptor uses stone. metal or wood; classified by the nature of the
an architect, various building surface from which the printing is
materials. An author uses words; a done: raised (relief); depressed
composer, musical sounds which he (intaglio); or flat (surface, or plane).
sets down as notes. A
choreographer uses people and a. Relief Printing
their movements as the materials
for his creations.
the process whereby unwanted
portions of design are cut away on
ORGANIZATION AND FORM the master image. Printed image is
formed by the remaining surface.
• The third phase of creating is e.g. linoleum cuts, woodcuts, and
organizing the idea and giving it wood engravings. Japanese prints
form in the selected material. are made from woodcuts.
• Artists have developed a host of
different forms to express ideas b. Intaglio
they work on.
• Style refers to the development
of forms on art that is related to Is a method of printing from a
particular historical periods. palate on which incised lines, which
• Forms in the space arts are often carry the ink, leave a raised
symmetrically balanced in their impression.
design; that is, the two sides of the
object are identical.
• The symmetrical balance tends to
emphasize the center, creating a
logical focal point for something
one wishes to emphasize.
• Asymmetrical balance is the kind
of organization found in the most
paintings and others two-
dimensional graphic works. Here,
the forms and colors on one side
are balanced by different forms and
colors on the other.
VISUAL ARTS
The visual arts are those that we
perceive with our eyes. They may
be classified into (two dimensional-
surface) and plastic arts (three
dimensional arts).