The humanities arts. What are the humanities?

1. Humanities
And The Arts
Arts

2. What are the Humanities?
• The humanities are
those academic
disciplines that study
the expressions of
human beings that
explore and reveal
what it means to be
human.

3. What are the Humanities?
• The disciplines that
study the expressions
of human beings and
explore what it means
to be human are
philosophy, language,
social science, history,
literature, religion, and
ART.

4. What are the Humanities?
• ART explores what it
means to be human.
• Painting, music,
sculpture, film, poetry,
and theater helps people
to see and understand
what it means to be
human.

5. What are the Humanities?
• The humanities is a
way of thinking about
and responding to the
world.
• The humanities are
about human beings,
their culture and their
intellectual
achievements.

6. What are the Humanities?
• Humanities stimulates
intellectual inquiry
and seeks answers,
to the central
questions of the
meaning of human
life.

7. What are the Humanities?
• Art probes into the
purpose and meaning
of life.
• Art makes us think
abstractly in ways we
don’t normally think.
• Art helps us to reflect
and keep the
meaning of life on the
edge of our minds.

8. What are the Humanities?
• The Humanities
interprets answers to
life as they emerge
from products of
human experience-

9. What are the Humanities?
• Products of human
experience are
– Religion
– Art
– Music
– Dance
– Drama
– Film
– Literature

10. What are the Humanities?
• Humanities seeks the clarity of wisdom gained through
a disciplined engagement –
(Art, religion, music, dance, drama)

11. What are the Humanities?
• Through the
Humanities, we learn
about ourselves and
Who are you?
we learn about
How did you get here?
others.

12. The humanities are about human
beings, their culture and their
intellectual achievements.

13. Humanities.

14. Humanities.
The Humanities are about
humans.
The Humanities are about what
humans produced and why they
produced it.

15. Humanities
•Human psyche
•Human nature
•Human condition
•Human behavior
•Human struggle

16. •Human
psyche
• –is where your power is. The
power of why you do what you
do. In your psyche lies the
potential to overcome odds, and
obstacles big and small. The
conscious “you” would never
allow you to take on such a feat.
Human psyche is the force
inside of a human that says
“mind over matter.” “If you think
you can you will. If you think
you can’t you won’t.”

20. •Human nature
-- the natural inclination of the
human. The ultimate tendency of
a human. The basic makeup of a
human. “I was born this way.”
Human nature is the set of
psychological characteristics,
including ways of thinking and
acting, that all normal human
beings have in common.

23. Human
behavior
•- Human behavior is the
collection of behaviors
exhibited by human beings
and influenced by culture,
attitudes, emotions, values.

25. Human
condition
Why am I this way?
Human condition is
the disconnect
between what we are
and what we can be.

26. Why am I this
way?

27. Why is she this way?
What is she thinking?

30. Human struggle.
To make strenuous or violent
efforts in the face of difficulties or
opposition. To proceed with
difficulty or with great effort.
The struggle for survival.
The struggle to find the meaning of
existence.
The struggle to have questions
answered.
The human struggle for rights…

34. Humanities.
The Humanities are about
humans.
The Humanities are about what
humans produced and why they
produced it.

35. We communicate our struggles to
others through ART.

36. As part of this course, we will learn to
observe. Observation by the intellect.
(Observation begins with the senses: what we
see, hear, taste, smell, touch--with what makes
us feel alive. )

37. Intellect = the capacity for rational or
intelligent thought -- especially when highly
developed. Intellect is built by involving oneself
in the arts as a viewer and/or participant.
The more a person involves themselves in the
arts, the more intellectual a person becomes.

38. Left Brain Right Brain
The more a
person
Words Images (non-
involves
(verbal) verbal)
themselves
Logical Intuitive
in the arts,
Black & the more
Color
White
intellectual a
Numbers Rhythm
person
Sequence Imagination becomes.
Analysis Daydreaming
Lists Dimension
Critical Creative
Thinking Thinking

39. The Left Brain
The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical
thinking. It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic
abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is
very linear: it places things in sequential order -- first things first
and then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our
own educational training, we have been traditionally taught to
master the 3 R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain
and strength of the left brain.

40. The Right Brain
The right brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal
manner and excels in visual, spatial, perceptual, and intuitive
information. The right brain processes information differently
than the left brain. For the right brain, processing happens very
quickly and the style of processing is nonlinear and
nonsequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and
quickly seeks to determine the spatial relationships of all the
parts as they relate to the whole. This component of the brain is
not concerned with things falling into patterns because of
prescribed rules. On the contrary, the right brain seems to
flourish dealing with complexity, ambiguity and paradox. At
times, right brain thinking is difficult to put into words because of
its complexity, its ability to process information quickly and its
non-verbal nature. The right brain has been associated with the
realm of creativity.

42. Why are the Humanities Important?
• Humanities are the key to
understanding the
diversity and richness of
all cultures.
• The humanities are
socially useful for critical
and imaginative thinking
about the issues that
confront us as citizens
and as human beings.

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44. Why are the Humanities Important?
The humanities allow people to accomplish
certain mental feats by helping them gain
empathy and a better sense of what other
people's truths have been.
•By visiting a Holocaust museum Americans can better
understand the pain and suffering Jews endured during
World War II.
•By watching the movie “Roots” people can better
understand the history and suffering of African American
people.

45. People
What are people?
People are a collective group of human
beings.

46. People
• An ethnic group of
people or ethnicity is a
population of human
beings whose members
identify with each other,
either on the basis of
ancestry, or by common
cultural, linguistic,
religious, or territorial
traits.
• Ethnicity is used in
contrast to race.

47. People
• A race of people refers to
a classification of physical
and genetic traits
perceived as common to
certain groups.
• The most widely used
human racial categories
are based on visible traits
(skin color, facial features
and hair texture

48. People
Nationality is a relationship between a
person and their state of origin, culture,
association, affiliation and/or loyalty.

49. People
So then what is culture?
Culture is..
• The predominating attitudes and
behavior that characterize the
functioning of a group or organization.

50. People
• So then what is
culture?
– The totality of socially
transmitted behavior
patterns, arts, beliefs,
institutions, and all other
products of human work
and thought.
– The expression of a
population or community
through their patterns,
traits, beliefs and
products.(Edwardian
culture; Japanese
culture; the culture of
poverty.)

51. What is Art?
• Art is a product made
with the intention of
stimulating the human
senses, the human
mind and spirit. The
driving force for art is
human creativity.

52. What is Art?
• Art = the product of
human work and
thought.

53. What is Art?
• Artist is a term
applied to a person
who engages in an
activity deemed to be
an art. An artist also
may be defined
unofficially, as, "a
person who
expresses
themselves through a
medium".

54. What is Art?
• An artwork is normally
assessed in quality by the
amount of stimulation it brings
about.
• Who does the art impact?
• How many people can relate to the
art?
• How much can the art be
appreciated? Why?
• How much influence does the art have
on the past? On human condition?
Psyche? Behavior? Nature? Struggle?
• Most artworks that are widely
considered to be "masterpieces"
possess these attributes.

55. What is Art?
• The humanities arts
concern the human
condition, struggle, psyche,
behavior,and nature: past,
present, and future.

56. What is Art?
• Architecture
• Visual arts
• Applied art
• Crafts
• Dance
• Decorative art
• Design
• Drawing
• Film
• Language
• Literature
• Music
• Opera
• Painting
• Photography
• Poetry
• Sculpture
• Theatre & Performing arts

57. What is Art?
• Art terms to
remember:
– Folk Art
– Applied Art
– Fine Art
– Craft
– Abstract
– Subjective (Realistic)
– 3 dimensional
– 2 dimensional
– Genre

58. Elements of Creativity
• There is an elemental basis for the
composition/product of any human
creativity.
The elements is the basic recipe. Just
like a cake, there are basic ingredients
needed to make a creative product.

59. Elements of Creativity
• The elements are the building blocks of
creation.

60. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Music
• Melody
• Harmony
• Rhythm
• Dynamics

61. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Theater
• Actor
• Audience
• Text (Script)
• Costume
• Scenery
• Sound
• Props

62. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Drama
• Plot
• Theme
• Character
• Dialogue
• Scenery

63. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Dance
• Centering
• Gravity
• Balance
• Posture
• Gesture
• Rhythm
• Movement in Space
• Breathing

64. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Film
• Story
• Direction
• Camera Work
• Editing

65. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of
Fashion
• Line
• Shape
• Fabric
• Texture

66. Elements of Creativity
• The Elements of Visual Art
• Color
• Value
• Line
• Shape
• Form
• Texture
• Space

67. Principles of Art are Universal
Emphasis
Balance
Harmony
Variety
Movement
Rhythm
Proportion
Unity

68. Elements of Art
(basic ingredients to make
a basic work of art)

69. Principles of art takes
creativity to a higher detailed
level.