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fingers, and crossing our arms are representations of GEHUM quiz reviewer humanities (Menoy, 2009). Lesson 1- Introduction to Art Appreciation As a branch of knowledge, Humanities explores on human conditions through the use of analytical, critical, or You might be wondering what in the world an art course theoretical methods. These methods are in the form of ideas subject is doing in your degree program. Some of you may and words that help makes our life more meaningful. think that studying arts or developing an appreciation for arts is a waste of time and unnecessary because it may not be Moreover, Humanities can also be as the study on how an relevant to your degree program or your work later in life. At individual documented and processed his/her experiences the same time, others may deem it significant nevertheless. particularly in connecting to others (Stanford University, 2016).Imparting humanities as an academic science is “Why there is a need to understand and appreciate art?” As designed to let our learners (particularly the new generations) a college student, learning through and about the arts enriches become creative and artistic individuals. the experience of studying while at school as well as preparing the student for life after school. Arts subjects Humanities help the students to connect with the community encourage self-expression and creativity and can build through art exposure like museum outings, concerts, theatre confidence as well as a sense of individual identity. performance, etc. (Marcos, 2010). In addition, art appreciation helps open up student’s mindset, Description of Art Appreciation by listening to different perspectives and views as well as When we look around, we see a lot of things that relate to interpretations of the art, it encourages thoughtful art. Art can come in the form of many items such as posters, conversation and the understanding that there is more than paintings, portraits, covers, and more. People look at art in one approach to everything. different ideas that they want to know more about or may be Understanding and appreciating the concept and meaning of studying. Art can shows ideas about the past, what is art forces the student to look beyond that which is necessary currently happening and what may happen in the future. It to survive and leads him/her to create for the sake of can also show meaning, love, boredom, and creativity expression and meaning.... Art can communicate (Ramos, 2012). Art can be meaningful because of the colors, information, shape our everyday lives, make a social shapes, and depictions it can create. statement and be enjoyed for aesthetic beauty. Art Appreciation is a way to motivate ideas and allows As a preliminary activity for the topic, the teacher will ask the students of individuals to illustrate their feelings when they viewed an the following questions: artwork. It helps develops critical and innovative skills in 1.​ Do you think of yourself as a creative person? If you do, why? If thinking and teaches essential qualities in listening, you don’t, why not? observing, and responding to multiple viewpoints It also requires an ability to differentiate what is apparent and what 2.​ Are you more creative and most productive when feeling happy? Do you suffer if you are not? is not (Gargaro & Jilg, 2016 and Sanger, 2012). 3.​ How do you determine whether a particular art is an original work of an artist? The Creation of Arts 4.​ What talent/s would you like to improve as a person? Why? In our life, we experience so much fragmentation of our Meaning and Importance of Humanities thoughts and feelings. But, by creating arts, it brings things Etymologically, the term “Humanities” is from a Latin word back together. We merely make art because of so many humanus, which means educated. It refers to the learning of reasons, and we enjoy the process of it. arts such as architecture, dance, literature, music, painting, The word “art” is from a Latin arti, which means theatre, and sculpture (Sanches, 2011).They are branches of craftsmanship, inventiveness, mastery of form, skill. It knowledge that focuses on the human opinions, and includes literature, music, paintings, photography, sculpture, relationships (Machlis, 2003). As a branch of learning, the etc. It serves as an original record of human needs and artwork is considered as the material object while its achievements. creativity and appreciation is the formal object (Menoy, 2009& Marcos, et al., 2010). ​ Significantly, the word artist comes from the French word artiste and the Spanish artista, which means Likewise, Humanities is more concerned on how a “performer.” It is someone who creates art that is merely person expresses his/her feelings. These feelings can be in trades and professions by which different people make their facial manifestations or body movements. Laughing, crying, livings (Goines, 2004). clenching our fists, curling our toes, stretching out our  An Artist most often refers to those who create within a Examples of this association are the choral singing, context of the fine arts such as acting, dancing, drawing, group dancing, public art exhibits and other practices. filmmaking, painting, sculpture, writing, photography, and music. 3.​ Economic Functions- Arts are emerging as a potent force in the economic life of people assumes an ​ They are those who use imagination, and a skill to essential role as a direct and indirect contributor to construct works that may be judged to have aesthetic state economies. Example of this is by generating importance. economic vitality in under-performing regions through crafts, tourism, and cultural attractions. Creativity is a characteristic of an artist that progressed in the extent of his/her life to express feelings. These are all 4.​ Political Functions- Art provides a forum for ideas processed in three significant phases namely: Creation of that will lead to employment, prestige, status, and Forms; Creation of Ideas; and Creation of the Materials power. During election period, for example, the (Sanchez, 2011). candidates created their artworks (poster) which expresses their propaganda, agendas and political a.​ The Creations of ideas. Artists are usually views about making a stable society. impressionable persons. They used their experiences as their basis in the making of dance, picture, a poem, 5.​ Historical Functions- Art is an essential technique or a play or a song. for information to be recorded and preserved. It serves to document or reconstruct historical figure For example, a composer may write a song on the and events. Most arts that are in Museums, for developing romance between a man and a woman, or example, are filled with amazing stories about the on the pains of a broken-hearted. world most excellent and most creative people who b.​ The Creations of the Materials. The artist uses brought us the treasures. By looking at a work of art’s different materials or mediums to give form to an colors, materials, and symbolism, we can learn about idea. For example, a painter uses pigments; a sculptor the story and culture that produced it in the past. uses wood, metal or stone; an author uses words; and 6.​ Cultural Functions- Art is an articulation and a composer who uses musical sounds to determine transmission of new information and values. the notes. Example, when you think of Manila, you probably c.​ The Creations of Forms. There are diverse forms think of Fort Santiago, Luneta Park, and its used by the artists in expressing their ideas. It is a world-renowned churches, or the famous Intramuros. medium of artistic expression recognized as fine art. 7.​ Physical Functions- Buildings are artistically This form is used to explain the physical nature of the designed and constructed to protect their occupants artwork like in metal sculpture, an oil painting, etc.​ and make their life inside more meaningful. Functions of Arts Architects, Industrial and Graphic Designers, and Interior Decorators share responsibility in building From the very beginning, arts have been part of human environment that balance forms and functions. history. It described, defined, and deepened the human experience. In the Prehistoric period for example, 8.​ Aesthetic Functions- Any artwork means beauty. It is peoples performed songs and dances to gratify their visual spice for gracefully adorned interiors and can ancestors. Likewise, hunters brushed different figures on bring out the most elegant features of different décor the walls of caves to depict their day to day experiences. elements. It reasonably reproduced visual images Arts also serve several functions which are item outcome which communicate through fantastic persuasions to its purpose (Menoy, 2009), namely: and meaningful words. 1.​ Individual Function- The artists perform arts PURPOSES OF ART because of the passion of their respective art Creativity or imagination is the primary basis of art. Art is forms. A singer presents a concert for free because of his advocacy and the love of singing. created when an artist produces a stimulating experience that For example, Regine Velaquez (Asia’s Songbird) is considered by his audience to have artistic merit. The is well-known for possessing extensive vocal artwork is the visual expression of an idea or experience of an range. artist, through the use of a medium (Frank, 2011). 2.​ Social Function- Man associates with others through It allows expression of the individuality of the artist. his art performance that arouses social consciousness. Through artistic endeavors, we can share what is important to us with others and can learn about the values of feelings of those sharing art with us. Some purposes of art are the looks; truth about how the world works. But artists have also following (Marcos et al., 2011). reached outward to describe truths about humanity and have reached inward to describe truths about themselves. 1.​ Art creates beauty. Sometimes their pursuit has led them to beauty, at other times to shame and outrage. The "ugly truth," just like the beautiful Art has always added beauty to our lives. At times the artist truth, provides a valid commentary on the human condition. has looked to nature as the standard of beauty and has thus imitated it. At other times, the artist has aimed to improve 4.​ Art immortalizes. upon nature, developing an alternative standard---an idealized form. Standards of beauty in and of themselves are by no Human beings are the only species conscious of death, and means universal. for millennia, they have used art to overlap the limits of this life. In Four Marilyns (photo), Pop artist Andy Warhol Example: participated in the cultural immortalization of a film icon of the 1960s by reproducing a well-known photograph of The Classical Greeks were obsessed with their idea of beauty Monroe on canvas. Proclaimed a "sex symbol" of the silver and fashioned mathematical formulas for rendering the screen, she rapidly rose to fame and shocked her fans by human body in sculpture so that it would achieve a majesty taking her own life at an early age. In the decades since and perfection unknown in nature. Monroe's death, her image is still found on posters and The sixteenth-century artist Leonardo da Vinci, in what is calendars, books and songs are still written about her, and the perhaps the most famous painting in the history of Western public’s appetite for information about her early years and art, enchants generations of viewers with the eternal beauty romances remains insatiable. and mysteriousness of the smiling Mona Lisa. But appreciation of the stately repose and refined features of this Italian woman is tied to an affinity to a Western standard of beauty. Elsewhere in the world, these very features might seem alien, unattractive, or undesirable. On the other hand, the standard of beauty in some non-Western societies that hold scarification, body painting, tattooing, and adornment, both beautiful and sacred may seem odd and unattractive to someone from the Western world. One art form need not to be seen as intrinsically superior to the other; in these works, 5.​ Art expresses religious belief. quite simply, beauty is in the eyes of the society’s beholder. The quest for immortality is the bedrock of organized 2.​ Art enhances our environment. religion. From the cradle of civilization to the contemporary era, from Asia to the Americas, human beings across time We have all decided at one time or another to change the and culture have sought answers to the unanswerable and color of our bedrooms. We have hung a poster or painting have salved their souls with the belief in life after death or here rather than there, and we have arranged a vase of flowers even reincarnation. It is not surprising that in the absence of or placed a potted plant in just the right spot in the room. We physical embodiments for the deities they fashioned, humans may not have created works of art, but we did accomplish one developed art forms to visually render the unseen. Often the thing: We managed to delight our senses and turn our physical attributes granted to their gods were a reflection of otherwise ordinary environments into pleasurable havens. humans themselves. It has been said, for example, that the Works of art have been used to create pleasing environments Greeks made their men into gods and their gods into men. In for centuries. Paintings are not merely objects of beauty in other societies, deities were of ten represented as powerful themselves; they also hang on walls and can be painted and mysterious animals, or composite men-beasts. Ritual and directly on them. Sculptures find their way into rooms, courts, ceremony grew alongside the establishment of religions and and gardens; photographs are found in books; and fiber arts the representation of deities, in actual or symbolic form. Until are seen on walls and floors. Whatever other functions they modern times, one could probably study the history of art in may serve, many works of art are also decorative. terms of works expressing religious values alone. 3.​ Art reveals the truth. 6.​ Art expresses fantasy. Art is a powerful tool, and the artist knows this well. It can be Art also serves as a vehicle by which artists can express their used to replicate reality in the finest detail, tricking the eye in inmost fantasies. Whereas some have labored to reconstruct perceiving truth in imitation. the Renaissance artist, the reality and commemorate actual experiences, others have contemporary Photorealist painter, all, in their way, pursued used art to give vent to their imaginary inner lives. There are truth and attempted to reveal it: truth about how the world many types of fantasies, such as those found in dreams and daydreams or simply the objects and landscapes that are times and places, reflecting contemporary fashions and conceived in the imagination. beliefs as well as the states of the crafts and sciences. 7.​ Art stimulates the intellect and fires the emotions. Art has the power to make us think profoundly, to make us feel deeply. Beautiful or controversial works of all media can trigger many associations for us. Whether we gaze upon a landscape painting that reminds us of a vacation in the past, an abstract work that challenges our grasp in geometry, or a quilt that evokes family ties and traditions, it is almost impossible to truly confront a work and remain unaffected. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold 8.​ Art creates order and harmony. Artists and scientists have been intrigued by, and have ventured to discover and describe, the underlying order of 12.​ Art protests injustice and raises social nature. One of the perfect expressions of order and harmony consciousness is found in the fragile Japanese sand garden (Fig. 1-17).These medieval gardens are frequently part of a pavilion complex As other people have, artists have taken on bitter struggles and are tended by the practitioners of Zen, a Buddhist sect against the injustices of their times and have tried to persuade that seeks inner harmony through introspection and others to join them in their causes, and it has been natural for meditation. The gentle raked pattern of the sand symbolizes them to use their creative skills to do so. water and rocks, mountains reaching heavenward. Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix Ryoanji Zen Temple, Japanese Sand Garden, Kyoto, Japan 13.​ Art meets the needs of the artist. Artists may have special talents and perceptive qualities, but 9.​ Art Expresses Chaos they are also people with needs and the motivation to meet those needs. Psychologists speak of the need for Artists have portrayed chaos in many ways throughout the “self-actualization'—that is, the need to fulfill one's unique history of art, seeking analogies in apocalyptic event such as potential. Self-actualizing people have needs for novelty, war, famine, or natural catastrophe. But chaos can be exploration, and understanding; and they have aesthetic needs suggested even in the absence of specific content. for art, beauty, and order. Under perfect circumstances, art permits the individual to meet needs for achievement or 10.​ Art records and commemorates. self-actualization and, at the same time, to earn a living.​ From humanity’s earliest days, art has served to record and communicate experiences and events. From prehistoric cave paintings, thought to record significant events in the history of Paleolithic societies and even involvement in wars, art has been used to inform future generations of what and who have gone before them. Art also serves to convey the personal experiences of an artist in a way that words cannot. 11.​ Art reflects the social and cultural context. Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach tells us the story of a young girl growing up in Harlem. Her experiences take place within a specific social and cultural context. In recording experience, artists frequently record the activities and objects of their