HUM 100

• Art


  Derived from Latin word "ars" meaning ability or skill
• Art embraces the visual arts, literature, music, and dance
• Art appreciation


  Encompasses more than just looking at a piece of art or learning about the artist. Students can learn to construct meaning and articulate their thoughts
• Art appreciation


  Helps us develop an appreciation for each other, and how we are all unique in our own way
• Humanities


  Derived from the Latin word humanus, which means human, refined, and cultured. The humanities are the studies about human culture, such as literature, philosophy, visual arts, and history
• Humanities


  Introduce us to the people we have never met, places that we have never visited, and the ideas that may have never crossed our minds. By showing others have lived and thoughts about life
• Creativity


  Doing something meaningful with your imagination
• Imagination


  Thinking of something - whether it is an object, place, time, etc., that is not present
• Art is Universal
• Art is not nature
• Art involved experience
• Functions of Arts


  • Personal functions
  • Social functions
  • Physical functions
• Personal function of art

  Art can be therapeutic for both the artist and the viewer. Expressive art therapy is the use of creative arts as a form of therapy
• Social function of art

  Advertisements which announce, describe, and present something in media greatly influence the social behavior of the individual
• Functions change according to form, and if there are many functions, there will be many forms
• Forms of Art Expression

  • Visual Arts
  • Performance Art
  • Poetry Performance
  • Architecture
  • Dance
  • Film
  • Literature
  • Theater
  • Applied Arts
• Subject of Art


  Refers to any person, object, scene, or event described or represented in a work of art
• Types of Subject of Art

  • Representational
  • Non-Representational
• Representational Art


  Represents objects or events in the real world, usually looking easily recognizable
• Non-Representational Art


  Also known as Non-objective, these are those arts without any reference to anything outside itself (without representation). It is non-objective because it has no recognizable objects. Abstract Art.
• Sources of Art Subject


  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• Kinds of Subject


  • Still Life
  • Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes
  • Animals
  • Portraits
  • Everyday Life
  • History and Legends
  • Religion and Mythology
  • Dreams and Fantasies
• Levels of Meaning


  • Factual Meaning
  • Conventional Meaning
  • Subjective Meaning
• Artist


  A person who performs any of the creative arts. This can range from painting to music.
• Artisan


  A skilled worker who makes things by hand
• The product or output of an artisan has a clear functional value, this may not be the cased for an artist. The output can be an expression of the beauty of art itself without having any functional value.
• The work of artists tends to be shown in museums or galleries, while artisans sell their crafts at fairs and shops.
• Medium


  The material used by an artist to express their feelings or thoughts
• Visual Arts


  • Dimensional or two-dimensional arts (2D)
  • Three-dimensional arts (3D)
• Auditory arts


  Those whose mediums can be heard and which are expressed in time, such as music
• Techniques Related to Paintings


  • Encaustic
  • Fresco Secco
  • Buon Fresco
  • Egg Tempera
  • Mosaic
  • Oil Paint
  • Water color
  • Acryclic
  • Collage
  • Drawing
  • Print making
• Encaustic


  The medium for the powdered color is hot wax which is painted onto a wood surface with a brush
• Fresco Secco


  Method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on ceiling surfaces
• Buon Fresco


  Three successive coats of specially prepared plaster, sand, and sometimes marble dust are troweled onto a wall. The artist transfers the outlines of the design onto the wall from a preparatory drawing.
• Egg Tempera


  The pigment is mixed with egg yolk. Tempera paintings are very long-lasting.
• Mosaic


  A pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface.
• Oil paint


  A paste made with ground pigment and a drying oil such as linseed oil, used chiefly by artists.
• Buon fresco


  Painting technique where the artist transfers the outlines of the design onto the wall from a tracing made of a full-scale cartoon (preparatory drawing), then applies a final, smooth coat (intonaco) of plaster onto as much of the wall as can be painted in one session
• Buon fresco


  Painted on walls
• Fresco secco


  Painted on ceilings