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.

DEFINITIONToday, 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.

ARTIt 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 man’s manipulation of talents and materials.

PURPOSES OF ARTTo create beauty.

To provide decorations.

To reveal truth.

To immortalize.

PURPOSES OF ARTTo 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 man’s 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 ARTThe 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.

MUSICThe 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

DANCEBagobo – 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.

DRAMAA 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 PICTUREA 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 OPERAPlay- 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

SIX Classification of Visual Arta. Graphic arts- have two-flat dimensional

surface, such as painting, drawing, photography and other products of printing industry.

b. Plastic Arts - have three- dimensional 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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