ARTS APPRE

• Humanities


  Refined, cultured and human
• Humanities


  • Proper etiquette and decorum, being civilized, and know how socialize properly
  • Adaptation to environment (social interaction, norms)
  • Having the nature being a human
• Human nature


  • Rational Being (with Intellect)
  • Emotional Being (with Emotion - Capacity to Love)
  • Spiritual Being (with Body and Soul)
  • Social/Relational Being
  • Freewill
• Rational Being


  Reasonable or logical, as opposed to impulse or whimsy
• Emotional Being


  In control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
• Spiritual Being


  Aware that our existence is not only limited in this temporal world, belief in life after death
• Social/Relational Being


  Deep need for "real" social connections, supportive relationships are good for us
• Freewill


  The power or ability of the human mind to choose a course of action or make a decision
• Freedom


  To do only what is good and what is right, responsible actions perpetuate freedom
• Through his bare hands, man constructed infrastructures that tended to his needs, like his house. He sharpened swords and spears. He employed fire in order to melt gold. The initial meaning of the word "art" has something to do with all these crafts.
• The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man
• Even if one goes back to the time before written records of man's civilization appeared, he can find cases of man's attempts of not just crafting tools to live and survive, but also expressing his feelings and thoughts.
• The Humanities, then, ironically, have started even before the term has been coined. Human persons have long been exercising what it means to be a human long before he was even aware of his being one. The humanities stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent phenomenon.
• Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long tradition of humanizing himself.
• Humanities and art have always been part of man's growth and civilization. Man has always tried to express his innermost thoughts and feelings about reality through creating art.
• Aims of Humanities


  • During Medieval Age - The humanities dealt with the metaphysics of the religious philosopher
  • During Renaissance Period - To make man richer because during that time only the rich people can make art like paintings, sculpture and etc.
  • During 19th and 20thCentury- To appreciate and understand the importance of human being, his ideas and aspirations
• Other related fields in Humanities

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • History
  • Literature
• Anthropology


  The study of human societies and cultures and their development; the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution
• Sociology


  The study of the development, structure, and function of human society
• Philosophy


  The study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and beauty
• Religion


  The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods
• History


  The study of past events, particularly in human affairs. The whole series of past events connected with someone or something
• Literature


  Most generically, it is anybody of written works. More restrictively, literature refers to writing considered to be an art form or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage
• Importance of Art


  • It driven our existence
  • It satisfies the needs for personal expression
  • It develops our skills to express ourselves
  • It challenges us to see things differently
  • It unleashes our hidden desires and passion
  • It can change our ways in life
  • It lets us see the truth that we might understand before
  • It gives pleasure, satisfaction, and gratification
• Art (ability)


  The human capacity to make things of beauty and things that stir us; it is creativity
• Art (process)


  Acts, such as drawing, painting, sculpting, designing buildings, singing, dancing, and using the camera to create images or memorable works
• Art (product)


  The completed work - an etching, a sculpture, a structure, a musical composition, choreography, or a tapestry
• Arts concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of a sensuous medium (color, sound, bronze, body, words, and film). This medium is fashioned into a symbolic language marked by beauty of design and coherence of form. It appeals to our mind, arouses our emotions, kindles our imagination, and enchants our senses
• Definitions of Art by known personalities

  • According to Plato, "Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the world."
  • For John Dewey, "Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind-one that demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping of matter to new and more significant form."
  • For Oscar Wilde, "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
  • For Elbert Hubbard, "Art is not a thing- it is a way."
• Four common essentials of Art

  • Art has to be man-made
  • Art must be creative, not imitative
  • Art must benefit and satisfy man
  • Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his audience
• It is in the study of the humanities where appreciation of the art is given emphasis. Artist convey their thoughts, beliefs, value, feelings, and relations through the various fields of art - gustatory, decorative, and performing. The humanities and art appreciation offer the basic knowledge each student needs, be it an academic requirement or merely an experience in life.
• Creativity is an artist trait developed in the course of one's life to solve problems or express his feelings. The method of creativeness is composed of the artist, being the prime mover, his thoughts, communicated through the performer, and the audience as his judge. Each participates dynamically in the artistic process.
• Art appreciation deals with the learning or understanding and creating artworks and enjoying them.
• Assumptions of Art


  • Art is Universal
  • Art is Not Nature
  • Art Involves Experience
• Art is Universal


  Art is everywhere; wherever men have lived together, art has sprung up among them as a language charged with feelings and significance. Art has no limit, and it rises above cultures, races, and civilization. It is timeless because it goes beyond the time of our existence.
• Art is Not Nature


  • Art is man-made; it is a creation of man utilizing his thoughtful skill and artistry, which undergoes process and planning
  • Art is artificial - because it is just an imitation or even an appropriation of reality and nature
  • Art can never be natural - because it is momentary in the constant transformation of change; it does not change by itself unless manipulated by its creator, which is man
  • From man's experiences, we cannot even compare Art with Nature because it is something mysterious and it is made by the Divine Providence whose depth and mystery is beyond human understanding
• Art Involves Experience


  Art is a depiction of our experiences. It demands taking part. We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, listen to it, touch it, and feel its presence.
• All art depends on experience, and if one is to know art, he must know it not as fact or information, but as experience. In order to know what an artwork is, we have to sense it, see or hear it.
• In matters of art, the subject's perception is of primacy. You may read a lot of reviews about Family History, or your friends may talk about it in front of you. You will not know the movie until you experience it.
• Art is created by man, not nature