What is Humanities?

Importance & Purpose of Humanities

Why study Humanities?

What is Arts?

Importance & Purposes of the Arts

Its Nature, Elements, Scope, Functions,
Classification

ETYMOLOGY
It comes from the Latin word, HUMANUS, which
means human, cultured, and refined.
The oldest and most important means of expression
developed by man.
It has various connotation depending on the political,
economic, social, artistic and cultural forces that surround
the different historical eras.

DEFINITION
Today, humanities refers to a loosely defined group of
cultural subject areas.
It refers to the:
Visual Arts architecture, painting, and sculpture.
Performing Arts music, dance, theater or drama,
literature
It is concerned with human thought, feelings and relations.
It is concerned with the importance of human being and his
or her feelings and how these are expressed.

IMPORTANCE

It constitutes one of the oldest and most important means of

expression developed by man.
A language charged with feeling and significance.
It appears to be universal.
As a cultural force, it is pervasive and potent.
It shows itself even in primitive societies.

WHY STUDY
HUMANITIES?
It helps us recognize fundamental values
and principles such as beauty, truth, love,
and faith.
It develops our capacity for critical thinking
and appreciation for cultural heritage.

3. It fosters understanding across

barriers of race, class, gender,
or ethnicity.
4. It introduces us to people we
have never met, places we have
never visited, and ideas that
never crossed our minds.
5. To appraise the value of
creativity.

ART
It concerns itself with the communication of certain ideas
and feelings by means of sensuous medium color, sound,
bronze, marble, 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 enhances our senses.

 The term arts is derived from the

Latin, ars meaning ability or
skill.
Arts may also be defined as the
process and product of a
skillful making.
It is the result of mans
manipulation of talents and
materials.

PURPOSES OF ART
To create beauty.
To provide decorations.
To reveal truth.
To immortalize.

PURPOSES OF ART
To express religious
values.
To record and
commemorate
experience.
To create order and
harmony.

NATURE OF ART
Art is Timeless
People created art at all times. It is as
old as man.
Art is not nature
Man , no matter how close it is to
nature, makes art.
Art is always an Experience
Art is a product of mans need to
express himself.

FUNCTION OF ART
Aesthetic Function
Man becomes conscious of the beauty of nature
Utilitarian Function
Art brought comfort and happiness in the lives of man
Cultural Function
Knowledge and practices are transferred from one
generation to another
Social Function
Love, understanding and unity fostered among the
people

VISUAL ART
The art that we perceive through our eyes.
It involves not only painting and sculpture but include such
things as clothes, households appliances, and the
furnishings of our homes, schools, churches, and other
buildings.
The AESTHETIC aspects of any work a painting, song,
story, dance or play those things make it an art.
Aesthetics refers to the forms and psychological effects of
arts.

MUSIC
The art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch
to produce compositions, expressing various ideas and
emotions.
Its primary function is to entertain.
It deals with emotions.
It is a pure art. Thus, it enables it to convey emotions with
great intensity and can affect people directly.

DANCE
It is the most direct of the arts for it makes use of the
human body as its medium.
It springs from our love for expressive gestures, release of
tension through rhythmic movement.
It heightens the pleasure of being, and at the same time
mirrors the life of society.
Primitives dance the dance of the older times in the barrio
folks.
Non-primitives the dance of the present time in the city

DANCE
Bagobo to show gratitude to the spirits for success in
war or domestic affair.
Indians to give thanks for a harvest.
Mexicans to celebrate religious festival.
Dance is uniquely able to intensify moods and emotions
and to deepen and dignify the feelings of all.

DRAMA
A group of people who act out the plot to get across to
the audience the idea the author is trying to express.
It may be a comedy, tragedy, mystery, musical or
melodrama.
Stage the place for reenacting the joys and problems
of life, a place where playwright strips life of nonessentials
and deals with basic and important issues.

MOTION PICTURE
A popular addition to the various forms of the theater.
Radio makes available drama for auditory sense and
the imagination.
Television, theatrical productions combine art forms.

PLAY AND OPERA

Play- a form of literature where scenery and
costume provide visual arts and music may serve as
a background to set the mood or to serve as part of
the plot.
Opera a drama set to music. Thus, it is a form
of the theater.
Theater combines several of the arts.

WHAT THE ARTS HAVE IN

COMMON
They are concerned with emotions, with our feelings
about things.
Emotions are part of our basic nature.
People experience excitement, pleasure, anger, and
all other emotional states in a way which is very different
from their intellectual responses.

FORMS OF GRAPHIC ARTS

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Visual
a. Graphic artshaveArt
two-flat
dimensional surface, such as
painting, drawing, photography and
other products of printing industry.

b. Plastic Arts - have threedimensional forms. Examples are

architectural designs and
construction of buildings and
other structures: landscape of
gardens, furnishing designs etc.

2. Performing Arts- These include

the theater, play, dance, and music.
It involves movement, speaking and
gestures.

4. Popular Arts- This group is

characterized as gay and lively. It
includes film, newspaper, magazine,
radio and television.

5. Gustatory Art of the Cuisine. This involves skill in food

preparation.

6. Decorative Arts They are

visual objects produces for
beautifying houses, offices,
offices, cars, and other
structures.

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