Introduction to Humanities

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The term 'Humanities' is derived from the Latin word 'Humanitas', which primarily emphasizes:

  • The biological and evolutionary origins of humankind.
  • The physical strength and capabilities of humans.
  • The intellectual and rational aspects of human existence.
  • The refined and cultured qualities of being human. (correct)

Which of the following best describes the 'formal object' of Humanities as a study?

  • Cultivation of creativity and appreciation. (correct)
  • Critical interpretation of literary texts.
  • Analysis of historical artifacts.
  • Documentation of human societies and cultures.

Studying humanities enhances our understanding of the past. How does this understanding primarily benefit us in the present?

  • By directly replicating successful historical solutions.
  • By providing escapism from contemporary issues.
  • By predicting future societal trends with certainty.
  • By offering context and significance to current events. (correct)

Which aspect of human experience is most directly engaged when dance is considered a form of art within the humanities?

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Literature, as a branch of humanities, is traditionally characterized by its focus on:

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The capacity of motion pictures to reach a large audience primarily contributes to its role in:

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The concept of art as 'universal' suggests that:

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The statement 'Art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good' emphasizes which aspect of art's universality?

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The idea that 'art is cultural' primarily indicates that:

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When we say 'art is NOT nature,' we primarily mean that:

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The concept of 'art involves experience' suggests that:

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Considering 'art as a form of creation', what is identified as the most critical component for an artist to exist?

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Which of the following best describes the 'personal function' of art?

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When art serves a 'therapeutic' personal function, it aims to:

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Art is considered to have 'social functions' when it:

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How does art perform a 'social description' function?

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The 'physical functions' of art are most evident in creations that:

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What is a key characteristic that distinguishes 'fine art' from other forms of art?

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Historically, in many cultures, individuals who 'produced, embellished, painted, and built' were primarily considered:

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The study of 'aesthetics' is primarily concerned with:

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In art, a 'line' is best described as:

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Horizontal lines in art are often used to convey a sense of:

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Vertical lines are primarily used by artists to create a feeling of:

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Diagonal lines in art are most effective at creating:

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Curved lines in art are often associated with:

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Spiral lines are used in art to depict:

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In art, 'shape' is defined as:

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Geometric shapes are characterized by:

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Organic shapes in art are best described as:

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In art, 'form' differs from 'shape' primarily because form:

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The element of 'value' in art refers to:

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'Color' as an element of art is defined by:

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A 'color wheel' is designed to primarily explain:

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'Complementary' colors are defined as colors that are:

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'Monochromatic' color schemes are characterized by:

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'Analogous' color schemes involve:

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'Triadic' color schemes are composed of:

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'Tetradic' color schemes are defined by using:

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In color theory, 'color temperature' refers to:

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In color terminology, 'hue' refers to:

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'Saturation' in color theory is best described as the:

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'Luminance' of a color refers to:

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The element of 'space' in art is primarily concerned with:

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'Positive space' in an artwork refers to:

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'Negative space' in art is best described as:

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'Linear perspective' in art is a technique used to:

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'Atmospheric perspective' creates depth by:

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'Multipoint perspective' is characterized by:

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'Relative size' as a means to create space in art indicates that:

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The element of 'texture' in art refers to:

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'Tactile texture' is defined as:

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'Visual texture' is best described as:

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'Composition' in art refers to:

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The Latin term 'Humanitas', from which 'Humanities' is derived, encompasses qualities most closely associated with:

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If 'artwork' is considered the 'material object' of humanities, then the 'formal object' that shapes its approach to study is best described as:

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Studying humanities fosters an understanding of historical contexts. How does this understanding contribute to contemporary society?

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Dance, as a form of art within humanities, primarily engages which facet of human experience?

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Literature, within the scope of humanities, is primarily distinguished by its:

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The broad reach of motion pictures in humanities primarily serves to:

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The idea of art being 'universal' suggests primarily that:

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The adage 'Art is not good because it is old, but old because it is good' highlights:

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When we say 'art is cultural', we primarily recognize that:

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The statement 'art is NOT nature' primarily implies that art is:

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The concept of 'art involves experience' emphasizes:

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Considering 'art as a form of creation,' what is the most essential element for an artist to exist?

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When art serves a 'therapeutic' personal function, its primary aim is to:

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The 'physical functions' of art are most directly observed in:

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What is a distinguishing feature of 'fine art' compared to other art forms?

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Historically, in many cultures, individuals who 'produced, embellished, painted, and built' were primarily regarded as:

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The study of 'aesthetics' is fundamentally concerned with:

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Horizontal lines in art are often used to evoke a sense of:

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Vertical lines are primarily employed by artists to create a feeling of:

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Diagonal lines in art are most effective at conveying:

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Curved lines in art are frequently associated with:

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Spiral lines are utilized in art to depict:

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A 'color wheel' is primarily designed to:

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If 'Humanities' is concerned with the qualities of being human, which of the following would fall outside its primary area of focus?

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The 'material object' of Humanities is identified as 'artwork'. Considering the 'formal object' to be 'creativity and appreciation', how does this shape the study of Humanities?

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Studying Humanities provides connections to 'places we have not visited' and 'great minds of human history'. How does this benefit individuals in their personal lives?

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Music, within the scope of Humanities, is described as appealing to 'the sensuous beauty of musical sounds'. Which aspect of human experience does this primarily engage?

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Literature is characterized as 'imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution.' What is the most significant element literature contributes to the scope of Humanities?

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Motion pictures, as a part of Humanities, are noted for their ability to reach a 'great number of people'. What is the primary significance of this broad reach in the context of Humanities?

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The statement 'Art is universal' implies which of the following about art's nature and impact?

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When we say 'art is cultural,' what primary aspect of art are we emphasizing?

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The assertion 'art is NOT nature' primarily means that art is:

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If 'creativity' is essential for an artist to exist, which of the following scenarios would most fundamentally challenge someone's designation as an 'artist'?

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When art serves a 'therapeutic' personal function, what is its primary goal?

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Art performs a 'social description' function by:

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Horizontal lines in art are often used to convey:

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Diagonal lines are most effective at creating:

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Spiral lines in art are often used to depict:

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A 'color wheel' is designed primarily to:

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'Analogous' color schemes are characterized by:

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Flashcards

Humanities

From the Latin word 'Humanitas', it refers to the quality of being human: civilized, cultured, refined

Powers or capacities

These are powers or capacities regarded as common to and most characteristic of human beings.

Cultivation of human nature

It is the cultivation of aspects of human nature so as to bring them into active realization.

word Humanities

Comes from the Latin 'humanus/humanitas', it means human, cultured and refined.

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What it means to be human

Qualities like rationality, kindness and tenderness.

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Branch of Learning

It is the study of the arts

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Material object of Humanities

As a study, it is artwork

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Formal object of Humanities

As a study, it is creativity and appreciation

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Branches of Humanities

Languages, the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, and history.

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Visual Art

The art that we perceive through our eyes

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Aesthetic

Refers to the forms and psychological forms of art

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Makes it Art

The aesthetic aspects of any work such as a painting, song, story, dance, or play.

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Music

The art of combining and regulating sounds of varying pitch.

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Music as an art

It bases its appeal on the sensuous beauty of musical sounds.

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Dance

It makes use of the human body as its medium.

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Essence of Dance

Springs from man's love for expressive gestures, his release of tension through rhythmic movement

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Theater

The stage is a place for re-enacting the joys and problems of life.

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Theatrical productions

Combines art forms.

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Literature

A body of written works

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Traditional Literature

Imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution.

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Literature Classification

Classified according to language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.

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Art

Activity or product expressing idea, emotion or worldview

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Creativity

Use of imagination or original ideas to create artistic work.

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Creativity Definition

Tendency to generate useful ideas for problem-solving and communication

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Imagination

Faculty of forming new ideas or images of external objects not present.

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Imagination Definition

The ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful

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Expression

Making known one's thoughts or feelings.

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Expression Definition

Conveying feeling in face, voice, art or music.

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Art is Universal

Art exists in every country and generation and age is not a factor in determining art.

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Art is Cultural

Artistic expression has emerged to provide an outlet for thoughts, feelings, traditions, and beliefs.

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Art is NOT Nature

Art is made by Man. It is not a natural occurrence.

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Art Involves Experience

Art involves both the artist and the active observer who encounter each other, their mental environments, and their culture at large.

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Art is a form of Creation

The creation is creativity, and makes an artist. Without the act of creation, no artist exists.

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Functions of Art

The personal functions emphasize the artist's motivation; the social function concerns art's role in collective life; the physical functions focus on art's utilitarian purposes.

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Personal Functions of Art

The personal functions of art are diverse and vary from person to person, involving individual expression of emotions and ideas.

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Order Through Art

Art serves to bring order to a chaotic personal world, providing a sense of structure and control for the artist.

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Chaotic Art

Art creates chaos or introduces disorder when the artist feels life is too boring, injecting excitement and challenging the status quo.

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Therapeutic Art

It is for both the artist and the viewer.

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Biological Art

Decorate ourselves in order to be attractive enough to others

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Social Functions of Art

Art addresses collective life aspects rather than just individual viewpoints.

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Art's Influence

It can cause us to laugh, or as a source in improving the human condition or shaping the society.

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Display and Celebration

Sculpture and painting are commemoration personages in society

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Social Description of Art

Artwork reveal how people thought, felt, and lived in certain historical period.

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Physical Functions of Art

Created to perform some service have physical function, and form and function of an object generally determines the basic form that it takes.

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Chair Physical Function

It must allow the seated body to rest comfortably on it.

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Building Design

Its design is determined primarily by its operational function.

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Fine Art

It results from a free and open-ended exploration that does not depend on a predetermined formula for its outcome or validity.

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What is considered An Artist.

Today, an artist is considered to be a person with the talent and the skills to conceptualize and make creative works.

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Who Produced

In many cultures throughout much of history, those who produced, embellished, painted, and built were not considered to be artists.

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Why make art

The urge to make art

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Why Personal to Create

Comes out of a personal decision to put a feeling, idea, or concept into visual form.

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Communal Needs and Purposes

Communities maintain stability is in the production of works of art that identify common values and experiences within that community an thus bring people together.

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What is Aesthetics?

Philosophical study of art or the inquiry into feelings, judgments, or standards of beauty

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Origin Derivation?

Aesthetics is the philosophical study of art

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Lesson Objectives

To Identify the various elements of art; interpret the roles of principles of design; examine the use of elements and principles; and create artworks by applying the different elements of art & principles of design.

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Elements of Art

The elements of art are the building blocks of an artwork.

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Elements Line

A mark on a surface with length and direction created by a tool (pencil, pen, brush)

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Horizontal Line

Moves from side to side and creates a surface on the paper.

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Vertical Line

Moves up and down, similar to the way we measure things.

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Diagonal Line

Moves diagonally and create movements in art. Artists use diagonal lines to create movement and convey a sense of energy.

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Curved Line

Basically any line that curves instead of being straight, vertical or horizontal

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Spiral Line

A line that curves in a circular motion is a spiral line direction.

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Shape

A shape is an enclosed area of space created through lines or other elements of the composition.

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Geometric Shapes

Precise areas that can be made using a ruler or compass.

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Organic Shapes

Organic shapes are complex and imprecise.

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Form

a three-dimensional element

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Value color

Refers to the lightness and darkness of colors and is often described in varying levels of contrast.

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What is: Color

Visual property of pigment in object detected by the eye.

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Color Wheel

Designed to explain how color is arraigned and how colors interact with each other.

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Complementary Wheel

A two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel.

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Monochromatic wheel

It is made of three colors, tones and tints of one basic color

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Analogous

Has Three colors that

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What Three are called

Color scheme with three colors that are evenly spaced on the col wheel

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What Is Tetradic

A four colors

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what warmth called

color's warmth or the color

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What is know as WARM?

Warm colors are said to warmth,

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What is know as COOLNESS?

what color are said coolness, water

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What is Hue

pure color

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Saturation

intensity

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What is luminance?

amount light in a color

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what concemed ?

Space how an artwork threee

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illusion give?

by means

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Size

in space figures close to are larger farer,?

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texture

what qualities surface.

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Touchable texture

texture where feeling surface touched.

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Impasto

what to apply thickly surface

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Texture Visual

Where the illusion texture and artwork

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How work

arranges piece of artwork.

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Composition

putting together.key how relation

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Key term??

Principles how arranged position.

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Balance of What?

The state equal

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what is symmetrical

each side of mirror other.

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balance equal is it

sense of balance achieved plan element

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Redial balnce that do,

swril out from axis.

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Uality

What sense that work?

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How to create

simplify?

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harmon?

harmony create?

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what?

our eye patting together to

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Focus Spot

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Study Notes

Introduction to Humanities

  • Humanities is an area of academic study that focuses on understanding various aspects of human culture, values, and experiences.

Objectives of Studying Humanities

  • Students should comprehend humanities' meaning.
  • The scope of humanities requires identification.
  • Students should be able to appreciate the value of studying humanities.

Meaning of Humanities

  • Humanus means "a human, a mortal."
  • Humanities is derived from the Latin word Humanitas, focusing on the qualities of being human that encompass being civilized, cultured, and refined.
  • Humanities involves powers and capacities common to human beings.
  • There is a cultivation of these aspects of human nature to bring them into active realization.
  • The word "humanities" comes from the Latin humanus/humanitas, meaning human, cultured and refined.
  • Being human includes rationality, kindness, and tenderness.
  • As a branch of learning, humanities focuses on studying the arts with "artwork" as its material object.
  • Humanities' formal object is "creativity and appreciation."

Scope of Humanities

  • The branches of humanities are languages, the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, and history.

Visual Art

  • Visual art is perceived through the eyes.
  • Aesthetic aspects refer to visual and psychological art forms.
  • Aesthetic aspects such as painting, song, story, dance or play are what make works art.

Music

  • Music combines and regulates varying pitches to create compositions that express different ideas and emotions.
  • Music's appeal is based its sound's beauty.

Dance

  • Dance uses the human body as its medium.
  • Dance comes from the human love of expressive gestures and the release of tension through rhythmic movement.

Theater

  • The stage re-enacts life's joys and problems.
  • Playwrights use the stage to strip life of nonessentials and focuses on basic and important issues.

Motion Picture

  • Motion pictures enable a large number of people to view dramatic performances on any day.
  • Theatrical productions like motion pictures and television combine various art forms.

Literature

  • It is a body of written works with traditionally imaginative works of poetry and prose with the authors' intentions and perceived aesthetic excellence.
  • Literature can be classified by language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.

Why Study Humanities

  • Humanities connects us to places we have not visited and help us understand the past or history, making us encounter great minds and hearts.
  • Through humanities, we study things of value/good to humans through time.
  • Humanities helps us experience connections through culture and community through art.
  • Studying humanities increases respect for cultural and individual differences through achievements and world civilizations.
  • Studying humanities provides a global perspective of world cultures.
  • Humanities helps developing a career, improving quality of life, reducing frustration, and working as part of a team.

Art Appreciation

  • Art is about creativity, imagination, and expression.

Objectives of Art Appreciation

  • To characterize the assumptions of the arts
  • To characterize artistic expression on personal experience with art.
  • To clarify misconceptions about art
  • To differentiate art from nature
  • To apply concepts/theories on beauty/aesthetic in real life situations

Art

  • Art expresses human creative skill and imagination, often through visual forms (painting/sculpture).
  • Artworks are primarily made to be valued for the beauty or emotional impact.
  • Art is an activity or product with communicative or aesthetic purpose.
  • Art expresses ideas, emotions, and world views.

Creativity

  • Creativity uses imagination and original ideas, especially in artistic production.
  • Creativity generates or recognizes ideas, alternatives, or possibilities to solve problems and communicate, etc.

Imagination

  • Imagination forms new ideas/images of external objects separate from the senses.
  • Imagination shows the mind's ability to be creative/resourceful.

Expression

  • Expression is the process of making one's thoughts/feelings known.
  • Expression conveys feelings face/voice, artwork or music performance.

Assumptions of Art

  • Art is a universal and cultural phenomenon that is not nature.
  • Art involves experiences.
  • Art's assumptions include being universal, being a creation, and involving experience.

Objectives of Characterizing Assumptions of Art

  • Characterizing the assumptions of the arts
  • Characterizing artistic expression based on personal experiences with art
  • Clarifying misconceptions about art
  • Differentiating art from nature
  • Applying concepts and theories on beauty/aesthetic in real life situations.

Art Is Universal

  • Art exists in every country and generation; age is not a determining factor.
  • Art should not be good because it is old, but old because it is good.

Art Is Cultural

  • Throughout world cultures, artistic expression is an outlet for thoughts, feelings, traditions, and beliefs that is rooted in history and a catalyst for change.

Art Is Not Nature

  • Art made by man is not natural and humans determine art in nature.

Art Involves Experience

  • Art involves the artist, its process, and the observer through cultural environments.
  • Art is not merely a recording of human experience; it involves it.

Art As A Form Of Creation

  • Creativity is an important part of being an artist.
  • Beauty comes from making something new to express the artist's thoughts/desires to others.
  • There is beauty everywhere and artists should effectively capture/display beauty to the world.

Functions of Art

  • Art has all different functions.

Personal Function of Art

  • The personal functions of art encompasses art and the individual level with expressing emotions/ideas.
  • The common personal functions of art include establishing an aesthetic or sense of spiritual harmony.
  • Personal functions of art includes giving order to chaotic personal worlds and giving chaos or disorder to ordinary lives.
  • There is therapeutic functions between artist and viewer.

Social Functions of Art

  • Art has collective/social aspects unlike a person’s individual point of view/experience.
  • Influencing social behaviour that make society laugh or correct human conditions shaping society.
  • Display and celebration commemorates people in society.
  • Religious rituals influence certain arts.
  • Festivals employs arts, such as:
    • Sinulog in Cebu
    • Moriones Festival in Marinduque
    • Ati-atihan in Kalibo
    • Diyandi in Iligan

Social Description

  • It reveals how people felt/lived in a historical period.
  • Portraying value of unity/camaraderie/bayanihan spirit among people in planting/harvesting is social description.

Physical Function of Art

  • Works of art created to perform a service have physical functions.
  • The function of an object indicates the form it takes, e.g., chairs are designed to allow a seated body for comfort.
  • A building design is determined by operational function like height and number/shapes of rooms.

Distinction of Fine Art

  • Fine art exploration should not rely on a validity or predetermined formula.
  • The outcome of fine art should be surprising and original through a level of craft.
  • Art builds on skill, but exceeds it.

Who Is Considered An Artist?

  • Artists have the talent/skill to conceptualize/create creative works singled out for original ideas.
  • Artists are individuals who want to be the design/fabricate objects+structures others encounter.
  • Historically, those who produced/embellished art were artisans/craftspeople making designs/objects to those whom they were working.
  • In medieval years, artisans learning aspects of a profession learned through a master.
  • Apprenticeships with the master's workshop lasted for 5-9 years to learn painting/baking/ masonry to candle making.
  • By the end of it, the apprentice became a journeyman and supervised training in the craft guild.
  • A journeyman achieved "masterpiece" skill named "master" for craftsmanship.

Why Do We Make Art?

  • Some of the earliest known human activity includes practical items like stone tools/pits and decorative personal adornment.
  • Although there’s speculation, these things show lives included a process of creating art from ancestors.
  • The communal production of works maintains the value/experiences by binding together individuals.

Aesthetics

  • Aesthetics, the philosophical study of art, explores value in the arts and feelings/judgments/standards.
  • It is related to judgments of sense, taste, and emotion.
  • Initially, it studies sense experience rather than art, which Baumgarten references from there on.
  • The study of art's nature and artistic beauty arose later in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
  • Questions in aesthetics:
    • Is a representation of objective artistic value?
    • Does art represent sensible/ideal objects?
    • Is that art an intellectual activity?
    • What would those realistically represent?
    • Is there taste?
    • Is the artwork showing what actually is?
    • Is it coincidence, that architectures show geometric styles?

Elements of Art & Principles of Design

  • The elements of art are the building blocks of art.

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