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ART
Historical Background
Records of
Man’s Quest
Latin –moral Contents
teachings Expression Experiences,
of Feelings Values,
 Medieval – religious and
Thoughts
Sentiments,
Ideals and
philosophers Goals

Renaissance – set of Humanities

disciplines
Modern times- shape
students energies.
 Branches of learning concerned with human
thoughts, feelings and relations.
 We get glimpse of people’s feelings and belief in their
time and the faces in their environment that
influenced their artwork.
 The arts-visual such as architecture, painting,
sculpture, music, drama, theater, dance and
literature.
 They may transform us into highly-cultured,
dignified, and respectable human beings, bringing
the good and the noble in us.
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 ARTIS>

 CRAFTMANSHIP/SKILL/MASTERY OF
FORM/INVENTIVENESS
 Derived from the Latin word “ars,” – ability or
skill.
 Artis – which means craftsmanship, skill,
mastery of form, inventiveness.
 A product of man’s need to express himself.
 It is concerned itself with the communication of
certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous
medium and colors, sound, words and films or
its own
 It brings life in harmony with the beauty of the
world.
 It is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one
which demands for its own satisfaction and
fulfilling, shaping of matters to new and more
significant form.
 A skillful arrangement or composition of some
common but significant qualities of nature such
as colors, sounds, movement, to express human
feelings, emotions, thoughts in a perfect
meaningful and enjoyable way.
 Art must be man – made;
 Art must be creative,

 Art must benefit and satisfy man-make

use of art in practical life through artistic

principles, taste and skill;
 Art is expressed through a certain

medium or material by which artist

communicates himself to his fellows.
 Differences of Humanities and Sciences
Humanities
 Internal world.
 Can’t be controlled,
measured, classified.
 Not précised/well
structured, uniform.
 Subjective
 Focus is on individual.
Sciences
 External World
 Subject to observation,
measurement,
experimentation.
 Controls nature and
harness energy.
 Objective
 Focus is on group.
 Art Nature

 Man Made - artificial  Natural

 Duplicated  Original
 Evanescent [fleeting]  Non-repeatable