Understanding Arts and Humanities

❑ Art is that which brings life in Art plays a valuable role to students
Art is from the Latin word, harmony 1. Through participation in arts –
ARS which means ability or with the world. – Plato music, dance,
skills that aims to ❑ Art is never finished, only drama, media arts and visual arts
communicate abandoned. – ✔ Students can develop their
beauty by enticing senses. Leonardo da Vinci creativity
❑ Art is not a handicraft, it is a ✔ Students learn about their
Humanities comes from HUMANUS transmission identity
which means to be human, of feeling, the artist has experienced. – ✔ Students develop awareness
cultured and refined. It brings out Leo Tolstoy ✔ Students develop self-
the best and worthiness of man as ❑ Art is the conscious creation of confidence
a person. something ✔ Students develop sense of well-
beautiful or meaning using skill and being.
Meaning and Importance of Art imagination. – Lisa Morder
● Art is a subject under 2. Through intense involvement in
humanities. There is A glimpse of the above definition artistic activities
no one universal definition of art brings us four (4) common essentials ✔ Students experience a sense of
since art is of art wonder and joy when
subjective. ❖ Art is man-made, not God made learning through arts
● It is subjective in the sense that ❖ Art is creative, not imitative ✔ Students can be motivated to
people ❖ Art benefits and satisfies man – participate more
differ in their perception of an when he uses practical life fully in cultural life
object or through artistic principles, taste, and ✔ Students are able to gain
thing. skills educational opportunities
❖ Art expressed through a certain which they can use later in their career
Some definitions of art given by medium or material by life.
various authors and writers which the artist communicates himself
to his fellows. WHAT IS ART APPRECIATION?
❑ Art is a product of man’s need ART APPRECIATION CAN BE
to express WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF ART DEFINE AS….
himself. – F. Zulueta TO STUDENTS?
▪ the knowledge and understanding of The two dimensional and three Another method in art history is the
the universal and timeless qualities dimensional picture planes are two application of media and digital
that identify all great art approaches in creating art. technology.
▪ the ability to interpret man- made arts This is the recent method in analyzing
▪ the possession of the works of art for The way elements of arts employed art history.
one’s admiration and satisfaction results either…..
ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
ART APPRECIATION is important to Representational Art
students…. If the artist copy or imitate
▪ It develops their visual thinking and an object or image found in 1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
analytical thinking skills where they are nature, this approach is In every country of the world, art
able observe closely and describe called Representational Art. exist because it is important to
what they see around them in a detail peoples lives. It is the oldest and
▪ Small efforts done by students can Non-Representational Art most important means of expression
lead to a greater appreciation of art. If the artist creates and art in a developed by man in any nature. Art
realistic manner (not imitation) has been created by all people of the
ART HISTORY rely on symbolism to capture world at all times; it has lived
▪ Major Arts includes painting, nature’s essence, this is called because it is liked and enjoyed. The
sculpture, and architect abstract art. elements and forms of art apply to all
arts everywhere.
▪ Minor Arts like ceramic, furniture, Impressionism
textiles and other decorative arts - It is an example of representation Ex.
style is produced when the artwork
METHODS USED IN ART HISTORY was not directly imitative but an MONALISA
▪ Art historians analyze works of arts impression of nature. ● Paris
through analysis of their forms. The ● Leonardo da Vinci
analysis is focused on the artist’s use EXPRESSIONISM ● 16th Century
of line, shape, color, The work of art is not representational SPOLARIUM
texture ,composition and other but the expression of the artist’s ● Philippines
elements of arts feelings, longings, aspirations and ● Juan Luna
ideals of beauty and form. ● 1884
METHODS USED IN ART HISTORY THE STARRY NIGHT NEW YORK
 ● Vincent Van Gogh
● 1889 ART as a product of Imagination Arts that meet the eye and evoke an
emotion through an expression of skill
2. ART IS NOT NATURE Imagination is more important than and imagination that includes
Art is not nature because it is man- knowledge, for knowledge is limited to
made. Art is mas’s interpretation of all we know already while imagination Examples:
what he perceives as art. Nature, such embraces the entire world. – Albert ● PAINTING
as the mountains, the volcano, lakes, Einstein ● DRAWING
rivers, land terrain are made by God Through imagination, we are able to ● PRINTING
and not by man. Thus, art, and not craft something bold, something new
nature, is made by man by all times. and something better. FILM
a form of entertainment that enacts a
3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE Art as a Product of Expression story by sound and a sequence of
When a work is finished in a What an artist does to an emotion is images giving the illusion of continuous
satisfactory manner, an experience not to induce it, but express it. Through movement.
occurs. Likewise, when a problem is expression, he’s able to explore his
solved or a game is played, or a own emotions, and at the same time, PERFORMANCE ART
conversation is rounded out create something beautiful out of them forms of creative activity that are
satisfactorily; experience do occur. –Collingwood, 1938 performed in front of an audience, such
Fulfillment and consummation of an act as drama, music, and dance
conclude the experience. WAYS EXPRESSING ONESELF
THROUGH ARTS POETRY PERFORMANCE
Artist use their experiences to also known as spoken word poetry, is a
ventilate their feelings through the ● VISUAL ARTS dynamic form of artistic expression that
works that they made. Some of them ● FILM combines elements of poetry,
use expressionism to communicate ● PERFORMANCE ART storytelling, with emphasis on vocal
strong and intense feelings. ● POETRY PERFORMANCE delivery, gestures, and body language.
● ARCHITECTURE
ART AS A PRODUCT OF ● DANCE ARCHITECTURE
● CREATIVITY ● LITERARY ARTS the art and technique of designing and
● IMAGINATION building, as distinguished from
● EXPRESSION VISUAL ARTS the skills associated with construction.
 performed by actors or actresses ❑An artist may create an art out
before rhe audience of the need for self-expression
DANCE FUNCTIONS OF ART &
a performing art form consisting of PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE of ❑It can also be a mere
sequences of movement, ART entertainment for his intended
eitherimprovised or purposefully audience
selected. This movement has aesthetic FUNCTIONS OF ART ❑An art may also be therapeutic.
and often symbolic value. ❑ It is about the use of the object
whose function is in Social Function
LITERARY ART question“what is it for” ❑Art is considered to have a
what one might classify more along the ❑ The function of art is an inquiry social function if and when it
lines of literature,including poetry and on what art is for. addresses a particular collective
prose.These works can range from ❑ Different art forms come with interest as opposed to a personal
epic poems to epistolary novels distinctive functions as to why interest.
to articles to comics. artists made it.
❑POLITICAL ART is a very
THEATER FUNCTIONS OF ART common
is a collaborative form of performing art example of an art with a social function
that uses live performers, usually Functions of art are classified into ❑It also depicts social conditions,
actors or actresses, to present the three: it convey message of protest,
experience of a real or ● PERSONAL (expression / contestation or whatever
imagined event before a live audience public display)
in a specific place, often a stage. ● SOCIAL (affect collective PHYSICAL FUNCTION
behavior/celebration) ❑The physical functions of art are
Performance Arts ● PHYSICAL (utilitarian) easiest to spot and understand.
Often involves artists who produce the ❑It can be found in artworks that
art without a story to foreshow to the Personal Function are crafted in order to serve some
audience ❑The personal function of art physical purpose.
varied and are highly subjective, it
Theater only depends on the person/artist EXAMPLE
Consists of a story produced and who created the art.
 ● A JAPANESE RAKU BOWL ● SERENADE, people compose ● Refers to the study of the
that serves a physical functions lyrics of love to express nature of arts,its concepts,
in a tea ceremony emotions and feelings interpretation, representation,
● Jewelry-making, architecture ● A piece of music can have expression and form.
interior design are all forms of distinctive meanings to different ● It is closely related to
arts that have physical function. people. aesthetics, which is the study of
beauty and taste.
OTHER FUNCTIONS OF ART:
ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY OF ART

SCULPTURE ● Architecture might be the most

● Are also another functional art important functional art form 1. ART AS MIMESIS (IMITATION)
● form that has long existed for ● Buildings are huge, expensive, 2. ART AS REPRESENTATION
various purposes. and are not easily constructed and 3. ART AS DISINTERESTED
● It is also made in order to replaced. Buildings take so JUDGMENT
commemorate important figures much time to erect and also to 4. ART AS COMMUNICATION
in history like JOSE RIZAL’S destroy. OF EMOTION
MONUMENT and ANDRES
BONIFACIO’S MONUMENT. DOES ART ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ART AS MIMESIS(IMITATION)
FUNCTIONAL? ● The word mimesis is a Greek
● It has been shown that most art word which means “imitation” or
MUSIC is functional and some are not. “copying”, although it may also
● From the early days of The value of art does not mean representation.
humanity, music was used for depend on function but on the ● PLATO (2000) in his
religion and dance work itself. masterpiece the republic, his
● Ancient world saw music only ● A functional object cannot be view of reality or metaphysics,
as an instrument to invoke their claimed to be beautiful unless it is that things in this world are
gods and goddesses and can perform it’s function only copies of the original.
facilitate worship. sufficiently. ● The true entities and eternal
beings that can only be found in
Example: PHILOSOPHY OF ART the World of Forms
EXAMPLE: ALLEGORY OF THE ○ THE UNSAFE beautiful for her. But in a sense,
CAVE TENEMENT she expects that same should
● a symbolic representation of put everyone in admiration.
how human beings live in the ART AS DISINTERESTED
world, contrasting reality versus JUDGEMENT ART AS COMMUNICATION OF
our interpretation of it. EMOTION
EXAMPLE: TABLE ● IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804)
wrote the “Critique of
● TABLE is not a real table, it is Judgement”, Kant considered ● In watching drama plays,
only an imperfect copy of the the judgement of beauty. opera, listening to music and
perfect “CHAIR”. ● Kant mentioned that judgement poems. At the end, audience
● Plato concludes that artists of beauty and art are in innately received artist feelings and
reinforce the belief in copies autonomous from specific emotions.
and Demoralize men to reach interests. ● As a purveyor of man's
the real entities in the World of ● Form of art that is adjudged by innermost thoughts and
Forms. one who perceives art to be feelings. Art is given a unique
beautiful or sublime. opportunity to serve as a
ART AS REPRESENTATION ● When one judges a particular mechanism for social unity.
● ARISTOTLE, Plato’s most painting as beautiful, in effect to ● Art is central to man's existence
important student in philosophy. the said painting, has induced a because it makes accessible
Aristotle considered art as an particular feeling of satisfaction emotions and feelings of people
aid to philosophy in revealing from him and he expects the from past and present from one
truth. painting to arouse the same continent to one another.
● Art represents something. feeling from anyone.
When an artist uses sign and ● For Kant, there is something in
symbols to take the place of the work of art that makes it
something else, he is using art capable of inciting the same
as a representational of such feeling of pleasure and
signs and symbols. satisfaction from any perceiver.
○ THE GORBEAU ● When someone says
HOUSE something beautiful, she does
not just believe that the thing is