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Here are some potential benefits you may gain from studying Art Appreciation: - It can help develop your aesthetic sense and ability to find beauty in visual works of art. This skill can make you more observant and help you appreciate artistic designs you encounter in everyday life. - Learning about different artistic styles and time periods can enhance your cultural literacy and understanding of history. Art often reflects the social and political conditions of its era. - The analytical and critical thinking skills developed in art classes, like learning how to interpret meaning and symbolism, can benefit your studies in other humanities subjects and careers. - An appreciation for creativity can inspire your own creative or innovative thinking in work projects down the road, helping you approach

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1.arts and Humanities

Here are some potential benefits you may gain from studying Art Appreciation: - It can help develop your aesthetic sense and ability to find beauty in visual works of art. This skill can make you more observant and help you appreciate artistic designs you encounter in everyday life. - Learning about different artistic styles and time periods can enhance your cultural literacy and understanding of history. Art often reflects the social and political conditions of its era. - The analytical and critical thinking skills developed in art classes, like learning how to interpret meaning and symbolism, can benefit your studies in other humanities subjects and careers. - An appreciation for creativity can inspire your own creative or innovative thinking in work projects down the road, helping you approach

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FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES

FIELDS OF LEARNING

Sciences HUMANITIES

Language History ART Philosophy

Art ART
Creation APPRECIATIO
Artist N
Practice Spectator
Theory
HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINES

HISTORY
Human events happening in the world

LANGUAGE
Written and oral forms of human communication

PHILOSOPHY
Human reason concerning reality

ART
Human appreciation of beautiful objects and
human creativity by which these objects are made
humanities
ETYMOLOGY
It came from the Latin word “humanus” which means refined,
culture and human
Refined - Norms, being civilize, and socialize
Cultured - Adaptation to environment (social interaction, norms)
Human - Having the nature of people, being a person

Definition
- The expression of ourselves without using of words (painting,
sculptures, dancing, mosaic, cross stitch, collage, paper and
folding)
- The study of man’s expression feelings, thought, intuition,
values, and ideas
- The study of man’s experience, goals, and aspirations
- It is used to dramatize individual expressions
Why do we need to study humanities?

The humanities serve to provide the


student with certain skills and values through
the arts. Students learn to appreciate the
importance of value that no other subject can
describe those values which are directly an
exact.
Aim of Humanities
•During Medieval Age
The humanities dealt with the metaphysics of the
religious philosopher.

•During Renaissance Period


To make man richer because during that time only the
rich people can make art like paintings, sculpture and etc.

•During 19th and 20th century


Is to appreciate and understand the importance of
human being, his ideas and aspirations
Other Related fields in Humanities

• Anthropology
• History
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Sociology
• Visual and Performing Arts
Art
Etymology

It came from the Latin word “ars/artis” which means to do or man


made

Definition

– It is a medium of expression because through arts we express


our ideas, emotions, feelings, without using words.
– Creative activity which involves skill or expertness in
handling materials and organizing them into a new.
Work of Art
Definition
– A thing of beauty having aesthetic value. Obra maestra, provides
aesthetic values to the viewers.
– It must have an artistic merit and literary merit.
– It is a symbolic state of meaning rather having a practical function.

Example:
Spolarium
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa Madonna and child

Banaue Rice Terraces


Importance of Art
• Driven our existence
• Satisfies the needs for personal expression
• Develop our skills to express ourselves
• Challenge us to see things differently
• It unleash our hidden desires and passion
• It can change our ways in life
• To see the truth that we might understand before
• It gives pleasure, satisfaction and gratification
The Creation of Arts
• The word “art” is from a Latin  arti, which means
craftsmanship, inventiveness, mastery of form, skill. It
includes literature, music, paintings, photography, sculpture,
etc. It serves as an original record of human needs and
achievements. It usually refers to the so-called “fine arts”
graphics, plastic, and building) and to the so-called “minor
arts” (everyday, useful, applied, and decorative arts). It is the
process of using our senses and emotions in making creative
activities. It is a human capability to make things beautiful
buildings, illustration, designing, painting, sculpture, and
Photography) through the production of his/her imagination
depending on the preparation, theme, medium, and values used.
Creativity is a characteristic of an artist that progressed in the
 extent of his/her life to express feelings.

a.The Creations of ideas. Artists are usually impressionable persons. They used their
experiences as their basis in the making of dance, picture, a poem, or a play or a song. For
example, a composer may write a song on the developing romance between a man and a
woman, or on the pains of a broken-hearted.

b.The Creations of the Materials. The artist uses different materials or mediums to give
form to an idea. For example, a painter uses pigments; a sculptor uses wood, metal or
stone; an author uses words; and a composer who uses musical sounds to determine the
notes.
• 

a.The Creations of Forms. There are diverse forms used by the artists in expressing their
ideas. It is a medium of artistic expression recognized as fine art. This form is used to
explain the physical nature of the artwork like in metal sculpture, an oil painting, etc.​ 
Functions of Art

• To express beauty
• It gives man moment of relaxation and spiritual
happiness
• It serves as a channel of man’s passion
• Arts reformed man
• Overcomes the feelings of restlessness and
loneliness
Categories of work of art considered to be great

• Best selling - it is very popular in its day, or is produced by an


artist who has done other very popular piece.

• Ground breaking- that it does not follow regular convention or


already tried artistic methods real closely. It is not, in short, just
one more soap opera following an old, old formula, no matter
how well done.

• Inherently beautiful - means just as the art critics do


require and demand that a work of art have an inner
harmony, beauty, and emotional/intuitive meaning that
are unified, strong and intense, and deeply moving to
us. Something that appeals to your senses and
emotions.
Different classifications of Art
I. By the Audience
- focus on how audience classified arts

1. Performing Arts- something an artist used body as a medium.


An art form that is moving from one place to another.

Example: play, movies, live music, movies/TV, operas,


mime, puppetry, acrobatic, dance, and ballet

2. Visual Arts- usually exist in two dimensional form and stay in


one place. Something that we see and hear.

Example: painting, photography, drawing, films,


sculpture, engraving, wooden materials, silk screen,
cartoon, stained glass, mosaic, and stage setting.
3. Literature- talks about language that affects our imagination and
make us think

Example: non fiction, fiction, stage play, poetry, screenplay and


song

4. Sculptural- a three dimensional form that we can touch, see, and


climb. It stays in one place.

Example: Monument, Architectural Designs, Rice terraces, Rock


Garden, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, flower gardens, water
fountain, and buildings.
II. By Critics
- Focus on how people judge art
Major Arts or Fine Arts- those that includes music, literature,
sculpture, painting, dance, theater, photography, and architecture.

2. Minor Arts or Applied Arts- those that includes ceramics,


furniture, weaving, photography, and letterings.

a. Pure Art- created and performed for other sake and to satisfies the
audience
Example: Watching movie

b. Practical Art- with a purpose, for practical use that


something is useful
Example: Chair and Table
III. By an Artist
- Characterize by special sensing, physical and special senses

1. Sight art- something that you can see, imagine, and create
Example: painting, drawing, mosaic, drafting design, stage
design, light displays and graphic design

2. Sound Art- something that you can hear


Example: Literature, Poetry, plays and Music

3. Touch Art- something that you can feel or touch


Example: Sculpture, Curving, Wood Craft, Pottery,
Dance Movement, and building
IV. Other Classification

1. Real Art- something that is understandable “what you


see is what you get”, objective and representational.

Example: photography, stage play, dance, sculpture,


and architecture

2. Abstract Art- non subject matter, non representational


that we cannot understand on the part of the listener.

Example: Grey Tree by Piet Mondrian


Thank you!
ACTIVITY 1
• IN GENERAL, WHAT DO YOU
THINK ARE BENEFIT YOU WILL
GET FROM THE SUBJECT ART
APPRECIATION? IN YOUR
DISCUSSION FOR THIS TOPIC YOU
CAN INCLUDE FUTURE
CONSIDERATION LIKE, WHAT’S
THE USE OF THIS SUBJECT TO
YOU TEN YEARS FROM NOW?

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