Arts and

Humanities
 Lesson 1
Overview of the Arts and Humanities
• Arts and humanities are considered as two of the oldest fields of
knowledge available to man.
• The difference between the two is often seen with ambiguity.
• While art is seen as a more all-inclusive field, humanities, on the other
hand, takes into consideration a diverse and oftentimes unrelated set of
disciplines from literature to political history.
 Meaning of Arts
• derived from the Latin word “ars” which means ability or skills, to do, or
manmade.
• It covers those areas of artistic creativity that seek to communicate beauty
primarily through the senses.
• The first known use of the word comes from the 13th – century manuscripts.
• also from the Italian word “artis” meaning craftsmanship, mastery and
inventiveness.
• Traces from the greatest works of human creativity, anyone can argue that art is
a product of man’s mastery and skills rooted from his artistic creativity
 Assumptions of Art
1.Art is Universal
• Art immortalizes man and his marvelous achievements
• Art is timeless and universal
2. Art and Nature are not one
• nature is the raw material for art
• Art is something we do out of our resources from nature
• Art is man’s expression of his reception of nature
3. Art involves experience
• all art involves experience by the artist
• We as spectators/students/teachers need to experience (see, feel, hear) works
of art in order to appreciate art
 The inclusion of art in the Curriculum

art course will prepare students

Art course or the Humanities
the tools necessary to face
instructs students to practice self-
challenges and to respond to
discipline; it reinforces self-esteem
issues that involved society
and above all the chance to hold a
from which they are a part of
constructive thinking
 Art in a Technology driven time
• Art does not die; artists are not dying breed
• Even in the ugly digitalized world the artist are still in the frontline
forwarding beauty
• They are movers of the world. Artists exist in the generation and places
• Socrates said “ars longa vita brevis” – art is long; life is short
• Artists never cease on searching a new and variety of expressions. They do
not stop to do things that no one does in the past.
 Importance of Studying the Arts
• Arts subjects encourage self-expression and creativity and can build
confidence as well as a sense of individual identity.
• Creativity can also help with well-being and improving health and
happiness – many students in the TALE study commented that arts lessons
acted as an outlet for releasing the pressures of studying as well as those of
everyday life.
• Studying arts subjects also help to develop critical thinking and the ability
to interpret the world around us.
 Meaning of Humanities
• generally refers to art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the theatre- in
which human subjectively is emphasized and individual expressive is
dramatized
• from Latin word “humanus” which means human- one who is refined, cultured
and worthy of the dignity of man
• may refer to those branches of knowledge concerned with man and his culture
• the records of man’s experiences, sentiments, ideals, goals and ultimately the
expressions of man’s feelings and thoughts
 Meaning of Humanities
• study of man’s nature, culture, evolution of thinking and ideas,, aspirations and
ideals through an examination of the works using a certain format of analysis
• a cultural discourse which focuses on the highest dignity of man/ woman/
LGBTQIA+, the highest need for full potentials and well-balanced individual
as a cultured person
• aims to offer happiness to human being, to direct human being achieved
happiness without money as instrument or anything that belonged to the world
 History of Humanities

MID 5TH CENTURY BCE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 15TH CENTURY LATE 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY

• modern conception of the
humanities has its origin in
the Classical Greek paideia, a
course of general education
dating from the Sophists in
the mid-5th century BCE,
which prepared young men
for active citizenship in the
polis, or city-state;
the Church Fathers, including • term studia humanitatis • German philosopher According to Heinrich Rickert,
St. Augustine, himself a (“studies of humanity”) was Wilhelm Dilthey called human sciences are
rhetorician, adapted paideia and used by Italian humanists to the humanities “the “idiographic”—they are devoted
humanitas—or the bonae denote secular literary and spiritual sciences” and to the unique value of the
(“good”), or liberales (“liberal”), scholarly activities that the “the human sciences” and particular within its cultural and
arts, as they were also called—to humanists thought to be described them, simply, as human contexts and do not seek
a program of basic Christian essentially humane and those areas of knowledge general laws.
education; mathematics, Classical studies rather than that lay outside of, and
linguistic and philological divine ones. beyond, the subject matter
studies, and some history, of the physical sciences.
philosophy, and science were
included.

55 BCE 18TH CENTURY

derived in Cicero’s • Denis Diderot and the French
humanitas (literally, Encyclopédistes censured studia
“human nature”), a humanitatis for what they claimed
program of training proper had by then become its dry,
for orators, first set forth in exclusive concentration on Latin and
De oratore (Of the Orator) Greek texts and language.
 Fields of Humanities
A. History, Anthropology, and Archaeology
B. Literature, Languages, and Linguistics
C. Philosophy, Ethics, and Comparative Religion
D. Jurisprudence
E. Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Approaches to the Arts
 Importance of Studying the Humanities
Disciplines of the humanities such as philosophy, history, and literary studies:
• offer models and methods for addressing dilemmas and acknowledging ambiguity and
paradox
• help us face the tension between the concerns of individuals and those of groups and promote
civil and informed discussion of conflicts, placing current issues in historical perspective
• give voice to feeling and artistic shape to experience, balancing passion and rationality and
exploring issues of morality and value
• provides a venue in which the expression of interpretations and experiences can be recognized
and areas of common interest explored
• help us to acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good
• Is essential in order for an individual to gain the knowledge to achieve the status of a cultured
man
 Activity 1
Choose 5 slogans from Ads or commercial films that answer this question:
How do Arts relate to Humanities?

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