HUM 1 LESSON 1:

ARTS APPRECIATION

Carpio, Mary Grace T.

 What is appreciation?
• recognition of good qualities of
person or something.
• a full understanding of a situation
• synonyms= respect, esteem,
comprehension
 Art appreciation
• recognition of good qualities and
understanding of art.
• acquiring knowledge leads to
appreciation
• knowing vocabulary concepts,
themes, processes and materials
 ARTS
came from the Latin word ARS which
means ability or skills that aims to
communicate beauty by enticing senses.
HUMANITIES
Came from the Latin word HUMANUS which
means to be truly human

To be truly human is to be culturally enhanced

and refined.
CULTURE
Comes from the Latin term:
CULTUS-COLERE, which
means to cultivate and to
develop

It is the general way of life of a

society, including ways of
thinking, beliefs, customs,
language, art and traditions.
 History of
HUMANITIES
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
H u m a n i t i e s r e f e r r e d t ot h e
“ c u l t i v a t i o n o f m a n ’s s p i r i t u a l i t y ”
 RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Humanities was a set of disciplines being taught in colleges and universities
 MODERN PERIOD
Humanities is referred to as arts.
Humanities is art itself.
What is
ART?
Art is the right reason of making things.
-Ar i s t o t l e
 VISUAL ARTS
These are the types of arts that can be perceived by the sense of
sight and can be projected onto 3-dimensional graphic forms.
examples: water color/acrylic in painting; bricks and concrete for
architecture; wood, stones and metal for sculpture; plants and
trees for landscaping; textiles and furnishings for interior
designing)
 LITERARY ARTS
Arts which pertain to letters > words > sentences > paragraphs as
another means of artist’s expression of personal ideas, feeling,
values, beliefs etc.
 DRAMA & THEATER
Refers to an action played by several characters
in a story giving emphasis on a plot.
 MUSIC
Is a combination of various sounds at varying
pitch to produce a certain compositions as an
expression of artist’s feelings and expereinces.
It is considered as an example of PURE ART
pertaining to the use of only one kind of
 DANCE
Considered as the first art cultivated mn and the
origiin of all his aesthetic beauty”
.
As the “origin of Arts”, dance served as the inspiration in
conducting diferent kinds of arts lie painting, musiic and
 THE SUBLIME
enjoyment is aroused
by astonishment and
awe
enjoyment is
aroused by
sympathy,
love,
benevolence,
tenderness
and modesty
THE COMIC
enjoyment is
aroused
 Is everything in nature and art
beatiful? Why certain things are
calld ugly?
 Everything in nature and art
is beautiful for everything is
created perfect according to
its nature and form. All things
are beautiful and perfect in
themselves, BUT not in
relation to us.
BEAUTIFUL THINGS
CAN BE USEFUL,
USEFUL THINGS
CAN BE BEAUTIFUL.
 Is the knowledge and
understandingof the universal and
timeless qualities that identify all
great art.
5. MINOR ARTS

Connected with practical

uses and purposrs like
interior design, landscape
and porcelain making.