HUMANITIES AND ART

APPRECIATION
LESSON 1

PREPARED BY: RICKS G. BUCTON

 INTRODUCTION
• Art helps us to understand more about culture and culture that
produce it. Art contains information.
• Art, like love, is not easy to define. It concerns itself with the
communication of certain ideas and feelings.
• Art appreciation refers to the pursuit of knowledge and
understanding of universal and timeless qualities characterizing
works of art.
• Humanities is a set of discipline that includes grammar, philosophy,
literature, history and music
• Art is one of the most and oldest important means of expression
developed by man.
 WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF ART
APPRECIATION?
• Art appreciation is something art teachers should strive to
instill students.
• Art appreciation is extremely relevant for multiple reasons.
• It is a good way to understand the history behind the work, and
the period from which the piece originated.
• Art has played significant role throughout our history.
However, it is also part of our lives from the clo
 THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING ART
APPRECIATION AND PHILOSOPHY
• It helps us to develop an appreciation for each other and how we are all
unique in our own way.
• Provides a students with a forum for developing literacy and
communication skills.
• Helps us to make sense of our world.
• Art enable us to imagine the unimaginable, and to connect us to the past,
the present, and the future.
• Literature, films and visual art transport us to different places and
cultures. Great art allows us to see ourselves and our own community
through different perspective.
• PHILOSOPHY comes from Greek words “love of wisdom”.
• it teaches critical thinking, close reading, clear writing, and
logical analysis
• It is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand
themselves, the world they live in, and the relations in the world
and each other.
• Philosophy develops intellectual abilities important for life as a
whole, beyond the knowledge and skills and required for any
particular profession,
 MEANING OF HUMANITIES AND ART
APPRECIATION
• HUMANITIES is derived from the Latin word humanus which
means refined or cultured human.
• The humanities are studies about human culture such as literature,
philosophy, and history.
• The humanities are the stories, ideas, and the words that help us
make sense of our lives and our world.
• The humanities introduce us to people we have never met, places we
have never visited, and ideas that may have never crossed our minds.
• The humanities help us address the challenges we face together in
our families, our communities and as a nation.
• Art appreciation is referred to the knowledge of the general and
everlasting qualities that classify all great art.
• Art appreciation refers to the pursuit of knowledge and
understanding of the universal and timeless qualities that
classify all great art.
 ART HISTORY
• Is the study of objects of art in their historical development and
stylistic contexts; that is genre, design, format and style.
• Includes painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and other
decorative objects
• As a term – product being history of art.
• As a discipline – is distinguished from art criticism which is
concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual
works with respect to others
• PHILOSOPHY OF ART – concerned with the fundamental nature
of art
 CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION
• IMAGINATION – is thinking of something whether it
is an object, place, time, etc., that is not present.
• Allows us to think of things that are not real or around us at
any given time.
• Seeing the impossible or unreal
• CREATIVITY – doing something meaningful with
your imagination.
• Allows us to do something meaningful with our
imaginations.
• Using imaginations to unleash the potential of existing
ideas in order to create new and valuable ones.
 … IN THE FRAME OF FOCUS

• IMAGINATION – our focus can be on things that are

impossible
• CREATIVITY – requires our focus to be in things that
might be possible

• We are born with imagination but creativity is learned.

And you deserve your chance to learn it.