Humanities
Refers to art, literature, music, architecture,
dances, and theatre. Areas in which human subjectivity
is emphasized and individual expressiveness is
dramatized.
HUMANITIES VS SOCIAL SCIENCES
Humanities
 Person as an individual
 Internal world of the human person such as
personality, experiences, thoughts and feelings.
 Nature of study is generally subjective like the
use of perception, feelings, intuition, insights.
Social Sciences
 Groups of people, institutions and processes of
society.
 External world of people
 Scientific, generally objective, subject to the
observation, measurement and
experimentation.
Historical Development
Ancient Period
Humanities were writing about moral
teachings of latin writers and
philosophers.
Medieval Period (12-14 Century)
University professors were interested in
metaphysics and religious things
(scholasticism) to cultivate the spiritual
life and preparation for the hereafter.
Renaissance Period (15-18 Century)
Humanities were disciplines in schools
and universities which focused and
asserted the intrinsic value of human
life on earth.
Modern/Contemporary
Rise of sciences (Social SCiences)
affected the further development of humanities
as a free and encompassing discipline.
Arts Meaning and Nature
 Constitute on of the oldest and most important
means of expressions developed by people
 Art has been created by people at all times.
 It involves personal experience of an individual
with intensity of emotions.
 Reflect on the milieu an artist belongs.
 Appreciating a work of art implies intellectual
involvement with what is to be appreciated.
Functions of Arts
Social Function
Influences collective behavior of people.
Physical Function
Primarily made to perform certain
functions to make our life comfortable.
Sculpture and its Function
Art of carving, molding or producing
works of art in three dimension.
Two School of Thoughts in Arts
1. Artist who believes solely in the “Arts
for the sake of arts”
2. Artist who believes in art as medium or
instrument for social change.
Subject of Art
Representational Art
Arts that have subjects
Non-representational Art
Arts that do not have subjects
Ways of Presenting the Subject
Realism
Objects are depicted as they would
normally appear in nature.
Abstraction
does not show subject at all as an
objective reality.
Distortion
 A technique of the artists that
dramatize the shape of a figure.

Surrealism

Combination of realism and distortion.

Levels Of Meaning of Subjects

Factual Meaning

Literal statement.

Conventional Meaning

Special meaning to particular culture

group.

Subjective Meaning

Personal Meaning