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Art Appreciation
Alva Nicole A. Quijada
Outline:

Introduction to Humanities
Introduction of Art
Assumptions of Art
Introduction
to
Humanities
The Meaning, Importance and Scope
 Humanities
-comes from the Latin word
humanus, which means ,
, and .
—having the nature of people,
being a person
—Adaptation to environment
(social interaction, norms)
—norms, being civilized,
socialized
 The humanities constitute one
of the oldest and most
important means of expression
developed by man (Dudely,
Faricy, and Company 1960, 3)
 For as long as man existed in this
planet, he has cultivated the land,
altered the conditions of the fauna
and flora, all in order to survive.
Alongside these necessities, man also
marked his place in the world through
his works.
 Through his bare hands, man
constructed infrastructures that will
tend to his needs, like his house. He
sharpened swords and spears. He
employed fire in order to melt gold.
The initial meaning of the word art has
something to do with all these— .
 Art vs Craft
is a form of work that is the
expression of emotions.
is a form of work which results
in a tangible output, for example,
moulding and carving.
 Human history has witnessed how man evolved
not just physically but also culturally, from cave
painters to men of exquisite paintbrush users of
the present. Even if one goes back to the time
before written records of man’s civilization has
appeared, one can find cases of man’s attempts
of not just crafting tools to live and survive but
also expressing his feelings and thoughts.
 has started even the term has been
coined. Human persons have long been exercising
what it means to be a human long before he was
even aware of his being one. The humanities
stand tall in bearing witness to this magnificent
phenomenon. Any human person, then, is tasked
to participate, if not totally partake in this long
tradition of humanizing himself.
Unlike other subjects, it is not a
group of scientific or technical
subjects. Thus, the term
humanities refers to —the
(architecture, painting,
and sculpture);
 , , the ,
and . They are the
branches of learning concerned
with human thought, feelings and
relations.
 The importance of the human
being and his feelings and how
he expresses those feelings
have always been the concern
of .
Introductio
n
of
 -comes from the ancient latin ars
which means a “craft or specialized form
of skill, like carpentry or smithying or
surgery”. (Collingwood 1938, 5)
 -suggests the capacity to produce
an intended result from carefully planned
steps or method.
 The did not have any
conceived notion of art in the same way
that we do now. To them, art only meant
using bare hands to produce something
that will be useful to one’s daily life.
 in medieval Latin came to mean
something different. It meant “any
special form of book-learning, such as
grammar or logic, magic or astrology”
(Collingwood 1938, 6)
 It was only during that
the word reacquired a meaning that was
inherent in its ancient form—craft. Early
renaissance artists saw their activities
merely as .
 It was when the
problem and idea of aesthetics, the study of
beauty, began to unfold distinctly from the
notion of technical workmanship that is the
original conception of the word “art.”
 It was finally in the
when the word has evolved to distinguish
between the fine arts and the useful arts. The
fine arts would come to mean “not delicate or
highly skilled arts, but ‘beautiful’ arts”
(Collingwood 1938)
 -like love, art is not easy to define. It concerns itself
with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by
means of a 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 minds, arouses our emotions, kindles
our imagination, and enchants our senses. (Machlis, 1963)
-the art that we perceive through our eyes.
-Architecture, Painting and Sculpture is a part of
visual art.
-A great range of objects can be included in
-the art of combining and regulating sounds of
varying pitch to produce compositions expressing
various ideas and emotions.
-Its primary function is to entertain.
-Music deals with emotions, enables to convey
emotions with great intensity and can affect
people directly.
-a form of art that is common to man even during
the earliest times.
-The most direct of the arts for it makes use of
the human body as it’s medium.
-It springs from man’s love for expressive
gestures, his release of tension through rhythmic
movement.
-may be a comedy, tragedy, mystery, musicl or
melodrama.
-a group of people act out the plot to get
-a popular addition to the various forms of
the theater.
-The radio makes drama available for the
 -is a form of literature.
-scenery and costume provide the 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
-a form of theater
If you were
an artist,
what kind
Assumptions
of Art
 -Art has always been timeless

I. Art is and universal,

generations and
through and through.
spanning
continents

universal -In every country and in every

generation, there is always art.

-Age is not a factor in

determining art.

-The pieces are read in school

and have remained to be with
 -The first assumption is that

I. Art is art has been crafted by all

people regardless of origin,
time and place, and it
universal stayed because it is liked and
enjoyed continuously. A great
piece of work will never be
obsolete.
Art will always be present
because human beings will
always express themselves
and delight in these
 -One important characteristic of

II. Art is art is that it is not nature.

Art is man’s expression of his
reception of nature. Art is

not man’s way of interpreting

nature. Art is not nature. Art
is made by man whereas nature
is given around us. What we
nature find in nature should not be
expected to be present in art
too. Movies are not meant to
be direct representation of
reality. They may, according to
 Dudley (1960, 7) affirmed that

IIi. Art “all art depends on experience, and

if one is to know art, he must
know it not as fact or information
but as experience.”

involves In order to know what an artwork

is, we have to sense it, see or hear

experience it, see and hear it.

Degustibus non disputandum est

(Matters of taste are not matters
of dispute.)

One cannot argue with another

 One should underscore
IIi. Art that every experience with
art is accompanied by
some emotion, one either
involves likes or dislikes, agrees or
disagrees that a work of

experience art is beautiful.

With experience comes

emotions and feelings after
all. Feelings and emotions
 Criteria:

Creativity—20
points
Organization—10
points
Execution—20