MODULE 1 Flashcards
Humanities is composed of academic disciplines that make it distinctive in both content and method from the physical and biological sciences and from the social sciences
Gabelo (2018)
deals with human phenomena
Humanities
It is a Latin word for humanities, which means human, cultured, and refined
humanus
the quality which distinguishes man, not only from animals, but also, and even more so, from him who belongs to the species homo without deserving of homo humanus (Panofsky, 1955)
humanitas
based on the philosophical view of humanism which stresses the dictum of Protagoras, a Greek philosopher, that “man is the measure of all things,” implying that the humanities emphasizes the dignity and worthiness of man and recognizes creative expressions
Estolas, Javier and Payno (2011)
the humanities are the stories, the ideas, and the words that help us make sense of our lives and our world.
White (1997) as cited by Leano and Agtani (2018)
humanities refers to the arts - visual
arts such as architecture, painting, and sculpture; music, dance, the theater or drama, and literature.
Sanchez, et al. (2012)
explained that humanities contains records of man’s quest for answers to the fundamental questions he often asks about
himself and about the world he lives in
Martin and Jacobus(2004) as cited by Gabelo (2018)
to be human is to show characteristics of rationality, benevolence and care; to be cultured and refined is to show good tastes and manners indicative of good, proper education
Gabelo (2018)
art is derived from the Latin word, ars, meaning ability or skill
Estolas, Javier and Payno (2011)
areas of artistic creativity that seek to communicate beauty
ART
People create it, and that’s enough to make it complicated and subject to many definitions
Brommer (1997)
humanity’s most
essential universal language
ART
defined art as something that brings us into direct communication
Martin and Jacobus (2008)
Art is everywhere
ART IS UNIVERSAL
timeless
ART IS UNIVERSAL
man-made
ART IS NOT NATURE
artificial
ART IS NOT NATURE
it is momentary in the constant
transformation of change
ART IS NOT NATURE
It demands taking part
ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE
We can only appreciate art if we spend time to look at it, touch it, and feel it.
ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE
for self-expression, or gratification
Personal Function
“merely” entertain
Personal Function
therapeutic
Personal Function
religious service
Personal Function
go beyond personal intrinsic value to art’s social benefits.
Social Function
Influences social behavior
Social Function
Display and celebration
Social Function
function of an object is generally essential in the basic form
Physical Function
determined primarily by its operational
function
Physical Function (ARCHITECTURE)
common interest and needs
Physical Function (ARCHITECTURE)
Time has proved that their designs best enable them to accomplish their purpose.
FUNCTION AND BEAUTY
The concept of this encounter compels us to come to grips with the aesthetic experience, or the manner in which makes sense of the world as we see, touch, hear,
taste, feel and intuit it
Art as aesthetic performance
art as signifying practice of cultural knowledge sheds light on the close relationship between technique and technology of meaning
Art as discourse and signifying system of cultural knowledge
social enactment of experience and communication in a given historical context
Art as social history
someone who commissions works of art, often orders more monumental tributes.
PATRON
she said that the role of the artist as “genius” developed during the14th century, with a status far beyond that of the skilled artisan and craftsman.
Hodge(2014)
an Italian painter and architect, published his book entitled, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
Geogio Visari, 1550
Personages whose biographies were included in this book, became well-known.
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
a person who exhibits exceptional skills in the visual and/or the performing arts
ARTIST (Gabelo, 2018)
a person who is skilled trade that involves making things by hands. He is a crafts worker who makes or creates objects of great beauty by just using their hands.
ARTISAN (Gabelo, 2018)
made by artists and primarily concerned with the form of beauty
Major Art
made by artisans and concerned with functionality and usefulness of human-made objects
Minor Art
Biological: Born as a human-being; act of being human “personality”
KATAUHAN
Cultural: Becoming a human being; Process of becoming
PAGKATAO
The process by which one becomes a human being
PAGPAPAKATAO
how human being is comparable to a jar (Covar)
it is part of Christian belief that ang tao ay nagmula sa isang kipil na putik, hiningahan ng Maykapal at naging si Adan
cultural identity is the worldview and values, beliefs, systems, knowledge, skills, practices, core principles and ideas shared by a society
de Leon(2011)
denigrating the local, from land, from being Filipino, and from sustainable living.
DONA VICTORINA SYNDROME
father of
Philippine painting
Damian Domingo Gabor
first Art School in the Philippines
Escuela Dibujo y Pintura in Tondo Manila in 1821.
Spoliarium
Juan Luna
Las Virgenes Cristianas
Expuestas al Populacho (Christian Virgins
Exposed to the Populace)
Felix R. Hidalgo
for genius has no country; genius bursts forth everywhere….
RIZAL
Deals with
natural, physical
phenomena
Sciences
“The humanist learns about the self.”
Reflexive Method
A scientist tends to know everything about the world that he forgets to know anything about himself.
Thales of Miletus
Gods in the state of perfection in heaven
divinitas
People in the state of culture in civilized society
humanitas
Savages in the state of nature for survival
barbaritas
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras (COSMOCENTRIC VIEW)
Man is at the center of the universe.
Geocentrism (COSMOCENTRIC VIEW)
Man is created in the image of God
Man is at the center of creation.
Scholasticism (THEOCENTRIC VIEW)
Nothing is more wonderful than man.
Humanism (Anthropocentric View)
Man is a part of nature.
Scientific-Technocentric View
Man is a piece of everything
Eclectic View
Only schooled people are artists
Academic
Meant for the higher social class
Elitist
Liberal art and servile art, high and
low art, major art and minor art or
craft, fine art and practical art, folk
art, indigenous art, popular art
Hierarchical
THE SEVEN MAJOR ARTS
IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION
VISUAL: PAINTING; SCULPTURE; ARCHITECTURE
PERFORMING: DANCE; MUSIC; DRAMA
LINGUISTIC: LITERATURE
Style of Juan Luna’s Spolarium
Neoclassical
España y Filipinas 1886
Juan Luna
Tolentino, Bonifacio Monument 1933
NEOCLASSICISM
Amorsolo, Planting Rice
Romantic Realism; Renaissance Art; Impressionism
Manansala, Market Scene
Transparent Cubism
Lamaroza, Ecology Series (1978)
Surrealism
Joya Karate
Action Painting; Abstract Expressionism
Albor,
Upward
Duality
Color Field Painting
Tiboli Art
Tinalak
Art of Colorful Mats from Samar-Leyte
Basey
Ifugao
Native
Backpack
Pasiking
Igorot Art
Bul-ul
literature
pasyon
pabasa
music
theater art
Senakulo