HUM 101- 67381

Name: Valerie Reed Orlanes

Kindly answer the following questions,

1. Why study humanities?

-Because it deals with man’s internal world- with his personality and
experiences, in which, its main concerned is on man as an individual. Where,
it engages in both our intellectual and intuitive emotional self. In fact. it let us
comprehend more about the nature of a man’s true self.

2. What is art history?

-Art history doesn’t consist in simply listing all the art movements and placing
them on a timeline. It is the study of objects of art considered within their time
period. Art historians analyze visual arts’ meaning (painting, sculpture,
architecture) at the time they were created. Also, another of art history’s
mission is to establishes authorial origins of artworks, i.e. discovering who
created a particular artwork, when, when and for what reason.

3. What is art appreciation?

-Art appreciation is the knowledge and understanding of the universal and
timeless qualities that identify all great art. The more you appreciate and
understand the art of different eras, movements, styles and techniques, the
better you can develop, evaluate and improve your own artwork.

4. Why do people create works of art?

-There many reasons about people creating an artwork; it might be, in order to
express themselves, to pass the boredom, for social connections, and etc.
However, most of them are just expressing their selves in a way of creating
and or making the surroundings pleasing to them and to everyone’s point of
view. To convey that the art was the reflection of their true self.

5. What is creativity?
-Creativity is the ability to transcend traditional ways of thinking or acting, and
to develop new and original ideas, methods or objects.

6. Why is creativity necessary in art making?

-To allow the uniqueness within the self, in which, it truly identifies how
different the work from other people’s work. It signifies the artistic self
expressing the beauty of its own concept on how it should be showcase
differently among the others.

7. When can you say that a person is creative?

-It is when they knew how to generate things differently from other
perspectives. That enables them to view more about one single idea, in which,
it gives the vibe of “I can do something more about this; I can surpass my
limitations to be unique among the others”. Aside from that, it is also when
that person will going to make alternatives from the scratch to the extent of its
own ability to do work of how they should view it.