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Humanities and Art ARTS

Concerns about humanity, where it records or
Appreciation interprets man’s thinking, feelings, regrets,
aspirations, failures, and he supposed not to do in
the world

Man also an animal but unlike them, he,

alone, possesses the following characteristic
features: Art skill pertains to profiency in doing an
activity
1. Ability to think, learn and be educated Skill and product primarily intended to delight the
2. Organize things in order to accomplish senses and produce satisfying experiences of the
ends beautiful “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”.
3. Has oral and written language which
enables him to communicate and preserve ideas “ars” ability/skill
4. Establishes permanent institutions  Artistic creativity that seek to communicate
5. Man is open to the world beauty
6. He is endowed with human universal
 Applies to activities that express aesthetic
phenomenon religion or the worship of God.
ideas by the use of skill and imagination
 Processes and products and experiences
 Immersed to a way of life of a certain place “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of
which is passed from one gen to the next aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences
which is called culture. that can be shared with others.”
 Lives in a society where he is capable of
discovering and learning
 Creates gadgets and tools
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Learn language, make laws, religion.
Capable to create and appreciate work of Nature of Arts
arts: part of nature or man-made

Humanities Art is Everywhere

“humanus” – human and cultured  Clothes and accessories
 Design of our furnitures
Study of:  The design of houses and cars
 Ancient and modern languages  Coins
 Literature  Religious images
 Philosophy  Paper bills
 History  Postage stamps
 Archaeology  Theatrical performances
 Anthropology  Celebrations of fiestas
 Human geography  Pictures in our cellphones
 Law
 Politics
 Religion

PRELIMS – Art Appreciation

 Nature has been a constant source of
models in art and we use art to improve or enhance
nature

Art as Expression and

Communication
If symbols used in artwork are understood,
Art and Beauty
then communication is established Expression of beauty of the environment,
places, and people around us
 Burst into song when we are happy
 Dance to express joy through rhythmic body
movements
 Sing out loud our love or despair
 Deep emotions in poetic language Classification of Arts
- To the Flower of Heidelberg
- Gloc 9 theme of Music
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Spolarium of Juan Luna
Taj Mahal of India Visual arts
- Perceived by the eyes
- Also called spatial arts because
Art as Creation artworks produced under this genre
occupy space
- Expertise in handling material - Graphic (2D arts) and Plastic (3D arts)
- Creation happens due to need, purpose
and function
- Planned activity, the artist thinks out a Graphic arts: 2D, flat surface
design, selects his materials and
 Calligraphy
arrange them according to his design
 Photography
 Paiting
 Drawing

Art as Experience 
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Sketching
Commercial arts (tarp &
billboards)
- Sensory, emotional, and intellectual
 computer graphics
responses
- Landscape painting recall happy
childhood days, song may bring back a
pleasurable experience, we weill show Plastic art: 3D, molded, shaped in clay,
empathy to a tragic experience of a stone, metal, wood
character in the movie
 Sculpture
 Architecture
 Landscape archi
Art and Nature 
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City planning
Theater design
 Crafts and handicrafts

PRELIMS – Art Appreciation

 Literary Arts: written mode and intended to
be read
Prose – sentence, paragraph,
chapters

 Short stories
 Novels
 Essays
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Legends and myths
Epic
Functions of Arts
Poetry – lines and stanzas •Personal Function
 Narrative poems Artists have their personal reasons for
 Lyrical poems indulging in art. Arts are vehicles for the artists’
 Dramatic poems expression of their feelings and ideas. The arts also
serve as means of expression for us.

Performing Arts •Social Function

- includes any activity in which the artist’s
physical presence acts as a medium.
- perceive both by ears and eyes --the
artist render a performance in front of an
audience.
 Music (vocal, instrumental,
mixed)
 Dance (ethnologic, social,
theatrical and contemporary)
 Drama (tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy, and melodrama
etc.)
Drama and Theatre Arts - is a
collaborative form of fine art that uses live
performers, typically actors or actresses, to
present the experience of a real or imagined
event before a live audience in a specific
place, often a stage.
Art performs a function when:
1.It seeks or tend to influence the
collective behavior of people
2.It created to be seen or used
primarily in public situation
3.Provides both serious and
humorous reflection about and criticisms of
society. Through theirart, artists
seekingsocialchanges bring public
awareness to a variety ofsocial, political,
and environmental issues.
4.Collaboration and Community
Building:Artcan bring people together.
•Historical Function
•Cultural Function
•Religious Function

Cinema or Film - A film consists of moving •Physical Function

pictures that have been recorded so that •Aesthetic Function
they can be shown at the cinema or on
television. A film tells a story, or shows a
real situation.

PRELIMS – Art Appreciation