Introduction to Arts

• Humanities

  • Latin word Humanus, meaning Human, Cultured and Refined
• To be Human is to have or show qualities like Rationality, Kindness and Tenderness
• Humanities

  refers to Arts
• Art is important to our lives
• Art constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of expression developed by man
• Art is a language charged with feeling and significance
• Machlis 1963

  This medium is fashioned into a symbolic language marked by beauty of design any coherence of form, it appeals to our minds, arouses our emotions, kindles our imagination and enchants our sense
• Architecture

  One of the oldest and most important of the many years of art
• Visual art

  perceived through our eyes
• Aesthetic

  • forms and psychological forms of art
  • any work such as painting, song, story, dance or play
• Music

  • art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch to produce compositions expressing various ideas and emotions
  • primary function is to entertain
  • deals with emotions
  • pure art because it convey emotions with great intensity and can affect people directly
• Arts

  • concerned with emotions
  • emotional
  • people experience excitement, joy, angry, etc. upon doing this
• Two responses in art

  • Emotional response
  • Intellectual Response
• Emotions

  part of basic human nature
• Artist

  • person who exhibits exceptional skills in design, drawing, painting and the like who works in one of the performing arts by an actor or musician
  • more sensitive and more creative
  • possesses the ability for interpreting ideas into artistic form
  • whenever they see things, they tries to analyze and put it into proper interpretation to the use of medium
• Types of Artist

  1. Creator
  2. Performer
  3. Audience
• Creator

  • composer, dramatist or playwright, choreographer
  • marker or producer
• Performer

  • singers, actors, troupe of dancers
  • interpreter
• Audience

  • they criticize or appreciate the art product
  • has important role in an art or creative process
• Julie Andrews

  • Singer and Teacher
  • known for teaching children that don't have discipline
  • taught by using notes: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do
• Richard Wise

  • producer, director, and creator
• Creativity

  • artist trait developed in the course of his life to solve his problem or express his feeling
  • continuing reaction to emerging conditions in nature and social life gives birth to new ideas and new methods
• Three major phases of art

  1. The artist must have an idea
• Three Major Phases of Art

  1. The Artist must have an Idea
  2. The artist must have a material to work on
  3. The artist must give form to his Ideas
• Forms of Music

  • AB
  • ABC
  • ABACA
• AB

  • 2 part form
  • church music
• ABC

  3 part form
• ABACA

  round form
• Art Expressions

  • based on the higher senses of sight and sound
  • other senses playing more or less indirect roles such as sense of touch, smell (secondary roles)
• Art Expressions

  • based on the higher senses of sight and sound
  • other senses playing more or less indirect roles such as sense of touch, smell (secondary roles)
• Material Process

  Second phase of creation of art concerns with the material which the artist insist give form to his idea
• 1. Painter - pigments
  2. Sculptor - Stones, metal, wood
  3. Architect - Building materials
  4. Author - word
  5. Composer - Musical Sounds which he sets down as notes
  6. Musician - Musical Sounds
• Sculpture and Music

  • religious crafts
  • focused on church
• Sculpture

  • Art of Space
  • occupies certain space
  • Statious found in church
• Music

  • time arts
  • records has limitations of 2 -3 minutes per record
  • identify how long the musical record last or to be played
  • musicians make music for church
• Three parts of Time Arts

  1. Introductory Section
  2. Middle Section
  3. Concluding Section
• Introductory section

  • presents idea form the intro of the song
  • main ideas to be presented to the totality of the song
  • preparatory stage to identify the other parts of the song
• Middle Section

  • Gives plot, melody or the theme
  • know the real meaning and idea of the song
• Concluding section

  gives the final working out of forces of ideas coming form the theme and introductory section
• Style

  • development of forms in art that is related to a particular historical periods
  • emphasizes balance