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Humanities 10:
ART APPRECIATION
DJHOANNA S. MAMA
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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Understand the role of humanities and
arts in man’s attempt at fully realizing
his end;
• Clarify misconceptions of arts;
• Characterize the assumptions of arts;
• Engage better with personal
experiences of and in art.
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DEFINITION OF
HUMANITIES
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What is Humanities?
It derived from the Latin word
“Humanus”

• Meaning humane, refined

and cultured.
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HUMANUS
× Humane × Refined × Cultured

× showing × sophisticated × educated

the better knowledgeable
aspect of or advance
human
character

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Humanities was based on

The dictum of It Implies that the
Protagoras, that humanities
emphasizes the
“Man is the dignity, worthiness of
Measure of All man and recognizes
Things.” creative expressions.

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Humanism believes that

man should be humanized,
socialized (to acquired
skills), and educated to
respond positively to rapid
changes.
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It is in the humanities course
where appreciation of the
arts can be strengthened
because the artists convey
their thoughts, beliefs,
values, and feelings through
the visual arts, literary arts,
dance and music.
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WHAT ART IS?

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Art derived 10

from the
Latin word
“ars”
Meaning ability or
skill or craft or
specialized form of
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Art embraces the visual

arts, literature, music and
dance.

We are involved in art

work, when we plan, design
and construct or create.
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All of these imply

that anything
accomplished
with great skill is
Art.
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A Work of Art
A work of art is a record of a particular
artist’s view. It show’s something
That he has seen, felt and thought of
And recorded it as an arrangement
Of designs, colors, lines and tones or
words to satisfy his Artistic purpose.
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× A work of art is the product of the
artist’s unique personality
influenced consciously or
unconsciously by factors such as:
× Environment
× Traditions
× National traits
× Religious beliefs
× Economic conditions
× Ideals
× Climate
× geography 14
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ASSUMPTIONS
OF ARTS

ART
ART IS ART IS NOT
INVOLVES
UNIVERSAL NATURE
EXPERIENCE

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1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
The first assumption
Meaning: about the humanities is that
art has been crafted by all
arts can
people regardless of origin,
be found
time, place and that it stayed
in every on because it is liked and
society. enjoyed by people
continuously.
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For Example:
Greek Epics Sanskrit Jose Rizal

× Iliad × Mahabharata × Noli me

× Ramayana Tangere
× Odyssey
× El Filibusterismo

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2. ART IS NOT NATURE
× Art is × Art is man’s
man’s way of
expression interpreting
of his nature.
reception
of nature.
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Art is made by
man, where as
nature is a given
around us.
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For example:
× Paul Cezanne, A French Painter, painted a
scene from reality entitled “Well and Grinding
Wheel in the Forest of Chateau Noir.” The said
scene is inspired by a real scene in a forest
around the Chateau Noir Area near aix in
Cezanne’s native province.
× Comparing the two, one can see that
Cezanne’s landscape is quite different from
that original scene. Cezanne has changed some
patterns and details from the way they were
actually in the photography.
× What he did is not nature. It is art.

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One can imagine the story of the five blind
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men who one day argue against each other

on what an elephant looks like. Each of the
five blind men was holding the a different
part of the elephant. The first was touching
the body and thus, thought the elephant
was like a wall. Another was touching the
ear and was convinced that the elephant
was like a fan. The rest were touching
other different parts of the elephant and
concluded.
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× Art is like each of these men’s view of the
elephant.

× It is based on an individual’s subjective

experience of nature.

× Artists are not expected to duplicate nature

just as even scientists with their elaborate
laboratories cannot make nature.

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3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE
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× Art is just experience. By experience, we

mean the “actual doing of something”
(Dudley, et. al., 1960).

× For example:
× a painter cannot claim to know
how to paint if he has not tried
holding a brush.
× A sculptor cannot produce a work
of art if a chisel is foreign to him.
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A work of art then cannot be
abstracted from actual doing.

In order to know what an artwork is,

we have to sense it, see and hear it.

One should underscore that every

experience with art is accompanied
By Some emotion.
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With experience comes

emotions and feelings.

Feelings and emotions are

concrete proofs that the
artwork has been
experience.
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Some Guidelines in
Understanding a Work of Art

Here are some guide questions

to aid one’s understanding of a
piece of art work particularly in
the visual arts:
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1. What did the artist make? What is it about?

(this concerns the subject.)

SUBJECT

2. What did the artist want to show in his work?

What is the artwork for? (This concerns the
function of the art.)

FUNCTION
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3. What is the artwork made of?

(this refers to the materials or medium used.)

MEDIUM / MATERIALS

4. How is the material put together or organized?

(This refers to the materials or medium used.)

ORGANIZATION OF AN ARTWORK
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5. What is the personality or individuality of the

art work? (this refers to the style and mood or
temper of the art work.)

STYLE

6. How good is it? (This is the judgment)

JUDGEMENT
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7) What is the meaning conveyed by the art?

How does it make life more meaningful?

Meaning / Message

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These guidelines are important

in understanding the works of
visual arts, especially in
painting, architecture and
sculpture.

It may result in a better

appreciation of the arts.
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× Art enables us “to see

the world in a grain of
sand and the rise above
the sod of clay and to
mount to heaven round
by round.”
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ACTIVITY 1 & 2
Lets Work on this

And

Lets make it happen !

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