Humanities

-The term Humanities comes from the Latin word, "humanus"

-a body of knowledge aimed to make man "human, cultured, and refined"

-It generally refers to art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the theatre in which human
subjectivity is emphasized and individual expressiveness is dramatized.

The expression of ourselves through:

Painting

Mosaic

Sculptures

Dancing

Cross stitch

Collage

-The study of man's expressions, feelings, thought, intuition, values and ideas.

Importance/ Significance of Studying Humanities

-Studying the humanities helps us to better understand who we are, our identity as a people, a society
and a culture, and how to organize our societies so we can

-achieve our goals. It introduces us to places we have never visited.

-It introduces us to ideas that never crossed our minds.

-It introduces us to persons we never met

By showing how others have lived and thought about life, it helps us decide what is important in our
lives and what we can do to make them better.

-By connecting us with other people, they point the way to answers about what is right or wrong, or
what is true to our heritage and our history.

Why do we need to study Humanities?

-It serves to provide the students certain skills and values through the arts. Students learn to appreciate
the importance of value that no other subject can describe.

-The humanities and the arts are central to all human cultures throughout time. Their study can facilitate
deeper intercultural understanding and lay the groundwork for a civically engaged life. They can also
prepare you to think critically, act creatively, and succeed in a rapidly changing world...
AIMS OF HUMANITIES

MEDIEVAL AGE

-Deals with the metaphysics of the religious philosopher

RENAISSANCE

To make man richer because during that time only the rich people can make art like painting and
sculpture.

DURING 19TH AND 20TH

To appreciate and understand the importance of human beings, his ideas and aspirations.

Art

-"Lifeblood" of humanities

- It is an essential factor that motivates an individual to create and appreciate a thing of beauty

Any creative skill, a talent, a painting, a design, a colorful creation, an original composition and a
masterpiece

Aristotle

-“art is the right reason of making things." It is the process of creating things that is guided by good
intention and it does not violate the universal concept of justice.

The Different Functions of Arts

Art's general function is to satisfy our individual needs for personal expression, our social needs for
display, celebration, and communication and our physical needs for utilitarian objects and structures.

PERSONAL FUNCTION

-Art makes individual aware of others ways of thinking, feeling, and imagining that have never occurred
to him/her before.

SOCIAL FUNCTION

It seeks or tends to influence the collective behavior of people. It is created to be seen or used primarily
in public situations.

PHYSICAL FUNCTION

- The forms and structures of art make one to live his/her life comfortably.

NATURE OF ART

ART IS EVERYWHERE

Art is part of one's life. He/she cannot ignore its presence even if he/she tries to.
ART as EXPRESSION and COMMUNICATION

Art is created through expressing ones feelings and emotions.

ART IS NOT NATURE

- Arts work of art is man-made. Although art may closely

resemble nature, it can never duplicate nature.

ART PERFECTS NATURE

- Although nature displays order and harmony, sometimes it is in its chaotic state. Artist duplicate
things they like and eliminate the undesirable elements in nature to convey their message of
love and beauty.

ART'S MESSAGE IS UNIVERSAL

- Art must be universally significant

BEAUTY

Webster dictionary:

- Beauty is an assemblage of perfection through which an object is rendered pleasing to the eye.

Plato:

Beauty is equated with the sublime identity with good.

Aristotle:

Beauty is a symmetry, proportion, and an organic order of parts into united whole.

Spinosa:

A thing is beautiful if we desire it, and desire it because it is good; and if it is good, it is therefore
beautiful.

Realist:

"Beauty is where you find it."

Idealist:

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Santayana:

Beauty is pleasure objectified.

IDEAL BEAUTY

- One finds from objects or scenes in nature which conforms or approximate to his idea of how
beauty should be made or formed, which expectation is the result of man's accumulated
knowledge or total aesthetic experiences.

REAL BEAUTY

- A type of beauty which conforms to the general expectations of man in a particular society,
period and culture according to subject, function or genre that it represents.

NATURAL BEAUTY

- A type of beauty as found in nature (not man-made) Objects which exhibits manifestations that
there has been no intervention made by man.

ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY

- A type of beauty realized the moment man tries to make some changes in nature in order to
realize some concept, atmosphere or mood.

DECORATIVE BEAUTY

- The type of beauty that is realized from the actual physical or material presence of the work of
art. It refers to the decorative function of the work of art that helps beautify the place.

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY

- A type of beauty discerned from works of art which subjects are about religion, or beauty found
in noble and virtuous life.

INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY

- A type of beauty that is discerned after giving due consideration to points or elements or a
meaning found beyond the surface or composition's observable features

CLASSIFICATION OF ART

ACCORDING TO PURPOSE

1. Practical or Useful Arts

- Are human creations used to produce artifacts, tools, and utensils used in doing household and
everyday chores

Example: basket weaving, agriculture

2. Liberal Arts
Involves the development of man's intellectual reasoning

Example: Mathematics, Astronomy, Grammar

3. Fine Arts

Are the products of human creative activity as they express beauty in different ways and media for
the spirt satisfaction and relaxation of man's mind and spirit

Example: painting, Sculpture, Architecture

4. Minor Arts

➤ Are works connected with practical uses and purposes

Example: Interior decoration, Porcelain art

5. Major Arts

Are characterized by their actual and potential expressiveness and by a purely disinterested purpose

Example: Music, Poetry, Sculpture

ACCORDING MEDIA AND FORM

Architectur

1. Plastic Arts
➤ Are developed through space and perceived by the sense of sight
Example: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
2. Phonetic Arts
- Are based on sounds and words as media of expression
Example: Music, Drama, Literature Painting

3. Kinetic Arts

➤ Make use of rhythmic movement as the elements ofexpression

Example: Dance Painting

4. Pure Arts

- Utilize only one medium of expression

Example: Sound in music, Color in painting

5. Mixed Arts

Use two or more media

Example: Opera (Music, Drama, Poetry)

- This refers to any person, object, scene, or event described or represented in a work of arts.

Representational of Objective Arts

- is the type of art that we see the most. Representational means descriptive, figurative and
symbolized. Briefly , it depicts something easily recognized by most people

Example: the painting Thunder Magic by Marcia Baldwin

Non-Representational or Non-Objectives Arts

-the opposite of Representational Arts it is a Complete Abstraction, where the line, colors, and
shapes themselves are focus of the artwork, rather than any existing thing.

Example: The painting By Wassily Andinsky

Kind of subject

1. landscapes, seascapes and Cityscapes

- an outdoor view of nature such as mountains, rivers dessert field and forest.

2. Still-life

-Group of Inanimate Objects Arranges in an indoor setting

Example: Sala set, Ceramics

3. Animals
- Along with the human form, animals were subjects of earliest art ever created they are the
earliest artworks known us most especially in cave painting
4. Portraits
- Realistic likeness Of a person in a sculpture, painting drawing or print
5. Figures
-Emphasis is on human body either nude

6. Everyday Life

7. History and Legend

- Refers to the story od a definite place, local custom and haunted place

Example: Biag-ni-lam-ang(ilocano) Biuag and Malana(Itawes)

8. Dreams and fantasies

9. Religions and myths- myths refers to the story that deals with supernatural tradition, men, culture,
heroes and beliefs
The Ways/Methods of representing the subject

1. Realism- the attempt to portray a subject as it is.

2. Abstraction

-It is use when the artist become so interested in one phase of a scene or Situation that he does not
show the subject at all as an subject reality but only his idea or feelings about it. Abstract means” to
move away or separate”

A. Distortion

-it is clearly monitor when the subject is in missshapen condition or the regular shape is twisted out

B. Elongation

-Refers to which is being lengthened, a protraction or an extension

C. Mangling

-Showing subject Which are cut , lacerated, mutilate, or hacked with repeated blows

D. Cubism

- want to show form in their basic Geometrical shape

E. Abstract Expressionism

-Characterized by great verve, the use of large canvasses, and a deliberate lack of refinement in the
application of paints.

3. Symbolism

-an emblem that assumes new meaning originating from a high personal and unique association in
the mind of the creator

4. Fauvism

-The use of extremely Bright colors which symbolizes comfort, joy and pleasure characterized this
method

5. Dadaism

- they believe were outworn traditions in arts and the evil they sow in the society.

6. Futurism

-Express the explosive vitality of a modern city

7. Surrealism

-the surrealists declare that a magical world is more beautiful that the real one. Can be created an
art and literature
8. Expressionism

- sometimes portrays defeats

9. Impressionism

-pictures were executed in bright colors in order to convey the impression of light.