Humanities

• Generally refers to the arts,

– the visual arts,
– literature,
– music,
– architecture,
– dance and
– the theater
 Humanities
• Human subjectivity and individual
expressiveness
• Records of human experiences, his values,
his sentiments, his ideals and goals
• From the Renaissance Period it refers to
that body of knowledge such as grammar,
rhetoric, history, literature, music and
philosophy—aimed to make a man a full
man—cultured, refined and well-rounded
 The Visual Arts
• The arts that we perceive through the eyes
– The Graphic Arts (2D)
• Painting
• Drawing
• Graphic processes (relief printing, intaglio printing,
engraving)
• Surface printing (lithography and silkscreen)
• Commercial Arts (Book design, Advertisements, signs,
posters)
• Mechanical process
• Photography (digital, chemical-mechanical processes)
 The Visual Arts
– The Plastic Arts (3D)
• Architecture
• Landscape architecture
• City planning
• Interior design
• Sculpture
• Crafts
• Industrial design (cars and appliances)
• Dress and costume design
• Theater design
 Music

• The art of combining and regulating sounds of

varying pitch to produce compositions,
expressing various ideas and emotion.
• Its primary function is to entertain
 Dance
• It is the most direct of the arts.
• It makes use of the human body as its medium
• Dances stem from our love of expressive gestures
and release of tension through rhythmic
movement.
• It heightens the pleasure of being and mirror the
life of the society
• It can be ethnologic, social or ballroom, ballet,
modern
 Literature
• The art of combining written or spoken words
and their meaning into forms which have artistic
and emotional appeal
• Literature includes
– Drama
– Essay
– Prose Fiction
– Poetry
– Miscellaneous (history, biography, letters, journals,
diaries and other works)
 Drama and theater
• Also known as play
• Theme may be comedy, tragedy, musical or
melodrama
 Functions of Art
• Social functions
– Arts tend to influence collective behavior of
people
• Physical functions
• Aesthetic functions
• Religious functions