Art, Humanities and Sciences

• Art appreciation motivates ideas and allows individuals to illustrate their feelings when viewing artwork.

Humanities

• Humanus translates to "educated".
• Humanities focuses on human opinions and relationships.
• Humanities is centered around how a person expresses feelings.

Social Sciences

• Considered a "soft science".
• Involves interaction with people using experimental data.
• Follows an open system
• Data is gathered through interaction.

Natural Sciences

• Considered a "real" or "hard" science".
• Uses controlled experiments with experimental data
• Follows a closed system
• Data is gathered in a laboratory.

Key Concepts in Art

• Creativity is an essential element.
• Art is a universal concept.
• Art has a meaning.

Functions of Art

• Art serves individual, social, economic, political, historical, cultural, physical, and aesthetic functions.

Purpose of Art

• Art aims to create beauty, provide decoration, reveal truth, express values, commemorate experience, and create harmony.

Classification of Art

• Visual art includes sculpture, architecture, drawing, and photography.
• Performing arts includes theatre, music, dance, film, installation art, opera, and stagecraft.
• Literary arts are another category.

Value of Arts in Education

• Connects imaginations with the profound questions of human existence.
• Helps to present issues and ideas to teach, persuade, and entertain.
• Shapes spiritual, political, economic, cultural, and social environments.
• Offers sources of enjoyment and investigates relationships between thought and actions.
• Teaches self-discipline, reinforces self-esteem, and fosters thinking skills and creativity.
• Values teamwork and cooperation.

William Morris

• Born in 1834
• Led the Arts and Crafts movement in 19th century Europe.

Types of Arts and Crafts

• Cross-stitch is popular counted-thread embroidery with X-shaped stitches in tiled patterns.
• Crochet is the process of creating fabric from yarn using a hook.
• Sewing is the craft of fastening objects using stitches made with needles and thread.
• Weaving is a fabric production method in which yarns are interlaced.
• Tatting is a technique for handcrafting durable lace made of knots and loops.
• Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.
• Lace is openwork fabric.
• Macrame is textile-making that requires few tools.
• Millinery is the manufacture of hats.
• String art is the arrangement of colored thread.

Principles of Art

• Harmony
• Variety
• Balance
• Movement
• Emphasis
• Proportion
• Rhythm

Art Elements

• Content
• Subject
• Meaning.

Primary Motivations of Art

• Acting
• Healing
• Political Change
• Propaganda
• Communication

Prehistoric Art

• Includes the Stone Age, Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.

Stone Tools

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Volcanic
• Neoliths were the first stone tools.
• Pebble tools, bifacial tools, flake tools, and blade tools also existed.

Pre-colonial Art

• Includes various forms like Agung, Banog-banog, Blit B'laan, Canao, Gangsa, Inamong, Kadal Iwas, Kashawing, Kinabua, Mamakar, Man-manok, Mayvanuvanua, Mumbaki, Ngilin, Pagdiwata.
• Pangalay is also known as Sea Gypsies.
• Sampak, Saut and Talip are also included.

Medieval Arts

• Included illuminated manuscripts with colorful religious texts.
• Metalwork for creating religious objects.
• Silversmithing and Goldsmithing for jewelry.
• Paintings used Fresco and Panel.
• Bayeux tapestry used embroidery in colored wool.
• Ceramics, Stained Glass and Heraldry were also art forms.

Philippine Artistic Handicrafts

• Play a vital role in preserving culture and traditions.
• Serve as evidence of traditional art, skills, talents, and the Filipino way of life.

GAMABA

• Philippine GAMABA Awards (Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan Awards)
• Apo Whang-od

Kulintang

• Gong and drum ensembles indigenous to the Sulu and Mindanao islands in the southern Philippines and northern Borneo.

Buri

• A plant native to the Philippines used for weaving various products like mats, bags, and hats.

Phases of Art

• Creation of Forms, Ideas, and Materials.