Humanus -The word humanities come from the

Latin ______
Humanities -means human, cultured
and refined. To be human is to have or to show
qualities, like rationality, kindness
and tenderness.

What the Arts Have in Common

One thing that is common to them all, what relates
a painting to a song, a play to a
dance?
The most basic relationship is that the arts are
concerned with emotions, with our
feelings about things.

Artist -is a person who exhibits exceptional skill in

design, drawing, painting, etc.
Artist - one who works in one of the performing
arts, like an actor or a musician.
2 Kinds of Artists
1. Performers
2. Creators
The process of creativity is threefold with the artist
as the prime mover,
communicating his ideas through the performer, as
his interpreter to the audience.

The process of creation - experts on the subject are

one in their view that there are
three major phases in the process of creation. First,
the artist must have an idea:
Second, he must have a material in which to work,
and third, he must give form to
his idea.
1. the idea
2. the material and process
3. organization and form

The idea - artists are highly sensitive persons

especially aware of the things surrounding them.
The material and process- the second phase of
creation in art concerns the
materials which the artist uses to give form to his
idea,
Organization and form - the third phase in creating
is organizing the idea and giving it form in the
selected material

The Scope of Humanities

Visual arts -are those that we perceive with our
eyes.

2 Classification-
1. graphic arts
2. plastic arts
Graphic arts- (flat, or two-dimensional surface)
Plastic arts - ( three-dimensional)

Examples of Graphic Arts

1. Painting
2. Drawing
3. Graphic processes
4. Commercial Art
5. Mechanical Processes
6. Photography

Painting - the process of applying pigment to a

surface to secure effects
involving forms and colours.
Drawing - the art of representing something by lines
made on a surface or
process of portraying an object.
Graphic Processes - processes for making multi
reproduction of graphic works
1. Relief printing
2. Intaglio printing
a. Dry point
b. Etching
c. Engraving
3 Surface printing
a. Lithography
b.

- includes designing of books, advertisements, signs,

posters,
and other displays to promote sale or acceptance of
product, service or idea.
- developed by commercial printers for rapid, large
quantity reproduction of words and pictures in one
or more colours
- chemical-mechanical process by which images are
produced on sensitized surfaces by action on light.

Examples of Plastic Arts

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-the art of designing and constructing buildings and

other types of structures.
- planning outdoor areas for human use and
enjoyment, especially gardens, parks, playgrounds,
golf course.

- planning and arranging the physical aspects of a

large or small community

- used to designate design and arrangement of

architecture interiors for convenience and beauty

- refers to design and construction of three

dimensional forms representing natural objects or
imaginary (sometimes abstract) shapes.

- refers to designing and making objects by hand for

use or for pleasure.

- refers to design of objects for machine production

- covers the design of wearing apparel of all types
(dresses, coats, suits, shoes, ties, etc.)
- is the design of settings for dramatic productions.

-The art of combining spoken or written words and

their meanings into forms which
have artistic and emotional appeal is called
literature.

Examples of Literature
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- a story recreated by actors on stage in front of an
audience.
- non-fiction, expository (descriptive explanatory)
writing ranging from informal, personal topics, to
closely reasoned critical treatments of important
subjects.

- includes narratives (stories) created by the author,

as distinguished from true accounts. The word
fiction comes from a Latin word
which means "form", to invent", or "to feign".
Fiction is generally divided
into novel, novelette, and short story forms. A novel
on a short story describes
characters and events which the author has
invented.
- literature of highly expensive nature using special
forms and choice of words and emotional images.
- history, biography, letters, journals, diaries, and
other works not formally classed as literature often
have definite literary appeal and status
due to high quality of the writing.

-is the art of arranging sounds in rhythmic successes

and generally in combination

Examples of Music
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-is composed primarily to be sung.

- written for instruments of four general types;
keyboard, stringed, wind or brass winds, percussion

• Music Combined with other Arts

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- a drama set to music. It is mostly or entirely sung
with orchestral accompaniment.

- also set of drama to music but is light,

popular, romantic and often humorous or comic.
- sacred musical drama in concert form.
d. Other forms of arts are the ballet music and
background music for motion
pictures

Drama and Theatre

- is a story recreated by actors on a stage in front of
an audience.

Examples of Drama
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- one of literature's great dramatic art forms. A

drama of serious nature in which the central
character comes to some sad or disastrous end. All
tragedies portray suffering.
- the emphasis is on action rather than on
character. The action is sensational or romantic and
usually has a happy ending.
- generally includes all plays with happy endings.

Under the comedy

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- light, amusing tale of lovers in some dilemma

which is finally solved happily.
- light, humorous play. Emphasis in farce is on jokes,
humorous physical action, ludicrous situations, and
improbable character.
- sometimes called "drawing room comedy is
sophisticated, sometimes satirical.
Miscellaneous
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- drama blending tragic and comic elements but

which ends happily
- dramatized stories from the Bible and of the lives
of saints.
- characters represent specific vices and virtues.
-term used to designate plays written for reading
rather than for staging.

- based on piano works which revolve around the

musical pieces composed under the inspiration of a
literary work.
Dance
-involves the movement of the body and the feet in
rhythm.

Example of Dance
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-includes folk dancing associated with national and
cultural groups.
- popular type of dancing generally performed by
paris.
- formalized type of dance which originated in the
royal courts of the Middle Ages.
- sometimes called contemporary or interpretative
dances.
-refers to those dances performed by soloists,
groups, choruses in theatres, night clubs, motion
pictures, and televisions.

METHODS OF PRESENTING THE ART SUBJECTS

-are anything that can be seen or touch with

aesthetic sense or beauty.

The Different Methods used by Artists in Presenting

the Art Subjects
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- this is the attempt to portray the subject as is.
- this is used when the artist becomes so interested
in one phase of a scene or a situation that he does
not show the subject at all as an objective reality,
but only his idea or his feeling about it.
-means to move away or separate .

Abstract subjects can be presented many ways like:

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- a symbol in general, is a visible sign of something
invisible such as an idea or a quality
- the fauves did not attempt to express ethical,
philosophical, or psychological themes.
- dada art was playful and highly experimental. The
name dada, a French word meaning hobby horse,
was deliberately chosen because it was nonsensical.
- futurist painters wanted their works to capture the
speed and force of modern industrial society.
- subjects of this kind attempt to show what is
inside man's mind as well as the appearance of his
outside world. The surrealists claim to create forms
and images not primarily by reason, but by
unthinking impulse and blind feeling or
even by accident.