LESSON 1: HUMANITIES AND

ARTS
G E D 1 0 8 - A R T A P P R E C I AT I O N
 1 Academic disciplines that study the
aspects of human society and culture

In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with

WHAT IS 2 divinity and referred to what is now called

classics, the main area of secular study in
universities at the time.
HUMANITIES? the humanities are more frequently contrasted

3 with natural, and sometimes social sciences, as

well as professional training.

The humanities use methods that are primarily

4 critical, or speculative, and have a significant

historical element as distinguished from the mainly
empirical approaches of the natural sciences, yet,
unlike the sciences, it has no central discipline.
humanities include the study of ancient and
modern languages, literature, philosophy,
5 history, archeology, anthropology, human
geography, law, politics, religion and art.
  Scholars in the humanities are
"humanity scholars" or
humanists.
 The term "humanist" also
HUMANIST describes the philosophical
position of humanism, which
some "anti-humanist" scholars
in the humanities reject.
 The Renaissance scholars and
artists were also called
humanists.
 Some secondary schools offer
humanities classes usually
consisting of literature, global
studies and art.
VITRUVIAN MAN
LEONARDO DA VINCI
 Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man" is called that way
because Leonardo was working over the writings of a
Roman architect named Marcos Vitruvius.
 This image demonstrates the blend of mathematics
and art during the Renaissance and demonstrates
Leonardo's deep understanding of proportions.
 This picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo's
attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopædia
Britannica online states, "Leonardo envisaged the
great picture chart of the human body he had
produced through his anatomical drawings and
Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo
(cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the
workings of the human body to be an analogy for the
workings of the universe."
 According to Leonardo's preview in the
accompanying text, written in mirror writing, it was
made as a study of the proportions of the (male)
human body as described in Vitruvius' De
WHY STUDIES HUMANITIES?
Astheword humanitiescamefromtheLatin
“humanus”whichmeanshuman,culturedand
refined,manis taughttobeaswhattheterm
exactlymeans:beingculturedandrefined; Humans have the
characteristics of Contains the
rationality, records of man’s
benevolence and quest for answers
care, he is cultured to the
and refined as fundamental
shown by good questions he asks
tastes and manner himself and about
indicative of good the world we live
and proper in
education
Humanities studies man and
composed of
the manner in which he academic
conducts himself from the time disciplines that devoted to
of his existence to the present understanding the
make it distinctive
in both content different
and method from phenomena within
the physical and the human cultural
biological sciences contexts
and from the social
sciences
Humanities studies Humanities studies
how people process how individuals’
and document the manner of expression
human experience varies as they record
using philosophy, human experiences
religion, literature, and how the way of
art and history as documenting these
forms a connection
their way of
between and among
understanding and humans of the past,
recording the world present and future.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
OF HUMANITIES
 Human nature is inherently good.
Individuals are free and are capable of
making choices.
Human potential for growth and
FUNDAMENTAL development is virtually unlimited.
PRINCIPLES OF Self-concept plays an important role in
growth and development.
HUMANITIES Individuals have an urge for self
actualization.
Reality is defined by each person.
Individuals have a responsibility to both
themselves and to others.
ART EXPLAINED
 Diverse range of • diverse range of
human activities in human activities in
creating visual, creating visual,
auditory or auditory or
performing artifacts performing artifacts
(artworks), (artworks),
expressing the expressing the
author's imaginative,
author's imaginative,
conceptual ideas, or
conceptual ideas, or technical skill,
technical skill, intended to be
intended to be appreciated for their
appreciated for their beauty or emotional
beauty or emotional power.
power.
Three
branches of
Classical Art
Sculpture
Painting
Architecture
NATURE OF ARTS

Art constitutes one of the
oldest and most important
means of expression
developed by man.
It refers to the skillful
arrangement or
composition of some
common but
significant qualities of
Art is subjective
nature such as
sounds, colors, lines, as it employs the
movements, words, use of perception,
stone and wood to insights, feelings
express feelings, and intuition
thoughts,
imaginations and
dreams in an
amazing, meaningful
and enjoyable way.
It is the heightened expression of human
dignity and weaknesses felt and shared
so powerfully in a world increasingly
aware of its successes and failures

It is man’s Art also provides

expression of enjoyment and
himself as an stimulation
individual and how specially when
he views his people understand
existence, them
 FORMS OF ART

FUNCTIONAL ART NON-FUNCTIONAL

FORMS
The need for life to be better
Architecture,weaving,
furniture-making
ART FORMS
The need to express
aesthetics and beauty
Painting, sculpture, literature
Music, dance, theatre