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
Today, humanities refers to a loosely defined group of
cultural subject areas.

 It refers to the:
• Visual Arts – architecture, painting, and sculpture.
•Performing Arts – music, dance, theater or drama,
literature

It is concerned with human thought, feelings and

relations.

It is concerned with the importance of human being and

his or her feelings and how these are expressed.
 IMPORTANCE
It constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of
expression developed by man.

 A language charged with feeling and significance.

 It appears to be universal.

 As a cultural force, it is pervasive and potent.

 It shows itself even in primitive societies.

 PURPOSES OF ART

 To create beauty.

 To provide decorations.

 To reveal truth.

 To immortalize.
 ART
It concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas
and feelings by means of sensuous medium– color, sound,
bronze, marble, words and film.

This medium is fashioned into a symbolic language marked

by beauty of design and coherence of form.

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

imagination, and enhances our senses.
 PURPOSES OF ART

 To express religious values.

To record and commemorate

experience.

 To create order and harmony.

 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
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
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
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 widt h 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.
 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
s m o o t h . Texture a l s o
refers to the way a
picture is made to look
rough or smooth.
 ELEMENTS OF ART
6. Value
 Value is the range of lightness
and darkness within a
picture. Value is created by a
light source that shines on an
object creating highlights and
shadows. It also illuminates the
local or actual color of the
subject. Value creates depth
within a picture making an object
look three dimensional w i t h
highlights and cast shadows, or
in a landscape where it gets
lighter in value as it recedes to
the background giving the
illusion of depth.
 VISUAL ART
 The art that we perceive through our eyes.

It involves not only painting and sculpture but include such
things as clothes, households appliances, and the furnishings
of our homes, schools, churches, and other buildings.

 The AESTHETIC aspects of any work– a painting, song,

story, dance or play– those things make it an art.

Aesthetics refers to the forms and psychological effects of

arts.
 MUSIC
The art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch
to produce compositions, expressing various ideas and
emotions.

 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.
 DANCE
It is the most direct of the arts for it makes use of the human
body as its medium.

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
Bagobo – to show gratitude to the spirits “for success in war
or domestic affair.

 Indians – to give thanks for a harvest.

 Mexicans – to celebrate religious festival.

Dance is uniquely able to intensify moods and emotions

and to deepen and dignify the feelings of all.
 DRAMA
A group of people who act out the plot to get across to the
audience the idea the author is trying to express.

It may be a comedy, tragedy, mystery, musical or

melodrama.

Stage – the place for reenacting the joys and problems of

life, a place where playwright strips life of nonessentials and
deals with basic and important issues.
 MOTION PICTURE
 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 AND OPERA
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.