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ETYMOLOGY
 It comes from the Latin word, “HUMANUS,” which means
human, cultured, and refined.

 The oldest and most important means of expression developed

by man.

 It has various connotation depending on the political, economic,

social, artistic and cultural forces that surround the different
historical eras.

DEFINITION IMPORTANCE
 It constitutes one of the oldest and most important
means of expression developed by man.
 Today, humanities refers to a loosely defined group of cultural
subject areas.
 A language charged with feeling and significance.
 It refers to the:
• Visual Arts – architecture, painting, and sculpture.  It appears to be universal.
• Performing Arts – music, dance, theater or drama, literature
 As a cultural force, it is pervasive and potent.
 It is concerned with human thought, feelings and relations.
 It shows itself even in primitive societies.
 It is concerned with the importance of human being and his or
her feelings and how these are expressed.

PURPOSES OF ART ART

 It concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and
To create beauty. feelings by means of sensuous medium– color, sound, bronze,
marble, words and film.
 To provide decorations.
 This medium is fashioned into a symbolic language marked by
 To reveal truth. beauty of design and coherence of form.

 It appeals to our mind, arouses our emotions, kindles our

 To immortalize. imagination, and enhances our senses.

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PURPOSES OF ART
To express religious values.
 To record and commemorate
experience.
To create order and harmony.
ELEMENTS OF ART
2. Color
 comes from light; if it
weren’t for light we would
have no color. Light rays
move in a straight path from a
light source. Within this light
rays are all the rays of colors
in the spectrum or
rainbow. Shining a light into a
prism will create a rainbow of
colors because it separates
the color of the spectrum.
ELEMENTS OF ART
4. Space
 refers to the arrangement of
objects on the picture
plane. The picture plane is the
surface of your drawing paper
or canvas. A two-dimensional
piece of art has heights and
width but no depth. The illusion
of depth can be achieved by
using perspective. This is the
technique used to have your
picture look likes it is moving to
the distance like a landscape or
cityscape.
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ELEMENTS OF ART
1. Line
 An element of art that is
used to define shape,
contours, and outlines,
also to suggest mass and
volume. It may be a
continuous mark made on
a surface with a pointed
tool or implied by the
edges of shapes and forms.
ELEMENTS OF ART
3. Shape
 When a line crosses itself
or intersects with other
lines to enclose a space it
creates a shape. Shape is
two-dimensional it has
heights and width but no
depth.
ELEMENTS OF ART
5. Texture
 Texture is the surface
quality of an object. A
rock may be rough and
jagged. A piece of silk may
be soft and smooth and
your desk may feel hard
and smooth. Texture also
refers to the way a picture
is made to look rough or
smooth.
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ELEMENTS OF ART VISUAL ART

6. Value  The art that we perceive through our eyes.
 Value is the range of lightness and
darkness within a picture. Value is
created by a light source that  It involves not only painting and sculpture but include such things
shines on an object creating as clothes, households appliances, and the furnishings of our homes,
highlights and shadows. It also
illuminates the local or actual color schools, churches, and other buildings.
of the subject. Value creates depth
within a picture making an object  The AESTHETIC aspects of any work– a painting, song, story,
look three dimensional with
highlights and cast shadows, or in a dance or play– those things make it an art.
landscape where it gets lighter in
value as it recedes to the  Aesthetics refers to the forms and psychological effects of arts.
background giving the illusion of
depth.

MUSIC DANCE
 The art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to  It is the most direct of the arts for it makes use of the human
produce compositions, expressing various ideas and emotions. body as its medium.

 Its primary function is to entertain.
 It deals with emotions.
 It is a pure art. Thus, it enables it to convey emotions with great
intensity and can affect people directly.
 It springs from our love for expressive gestures, release of
tension through rhythmic movement.
 It heightens the pleasure of being, and at the same time mirrors
the life of society.
 Primitives dance – the dance of the older times in the barrio
folks.

 Non-primitives – the dance of the present time in the city.

DANCE DRAMA
 Bagobo – to show gratitude to the spirits “for success in war or  A group of people who act out the plot to get across to the
domestic affair. audience the idea the author is trying to express.

 Indians – to give thanks for a harvest.  It may be a comedy, tragedy, mystery, musical or melodrama.

 Mexicans – to celebrate religious festival.  Stage – the place for reenacting the joys and problems of life, a
place where playwright strips life of nonessentials and deals with
 Dance is uniquely able to intensify moods and emotions and to basic and important issues.
deepen and dignify the feelings of all.

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MOTION PICTURE PLAY AND OPERA

 A popular addition to the various forms of the theater.
 Radio – makes available drama for auditory sense and the
imagination.
 Television, theatrical productions – combine art forms.
Play- a form of literature where scenery and costume provide
visual arts and music may serve as a background to set the mood or
to serve as part of the plot.
 Opera – a drama set to music. Thus, it is a form of the theater.
 Theater – combines several of the arts.

WHAT THE ARTS HAVE IN COMMON

 They are concerned with emotions, with our feelings about

things.

 Emotions are part of our basic nature.

 People experience excitement, pleasure, anger, and all other

emotional states in a way which is very different from their
intellectual responses.