GEC ART 1 -Origin and Meaning of Humanities

Four Common Essentials of Art

- Art is man-made, not God-made - Art is creative, not imitative - Art benefits and satisfies man- when he uses art in practical life through artistic principles, taste, and skill - Art is expressed through a certain medium or material by which the artist communicates himself to his fellows.

Swara Swami's reasons why art is important

- Arts improve your creativity skills - Arts give you joy and satisfaction - Arts relieve stress - Arts give you the opportunity to showcase your talent - Arts give you confidence in performance - Arts help you do well academically - Arts help you learn visually -Arts help you express your emotions -Art is different language because it can express things without words.

Reasons why art is important

-Art highlights and heightens the importance of certain events in order to keep them memorable and pleasurable. -Art enables us to get a glimpse of the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the people in their time and the faces in their environment that influence. -Art enables us to value and appreciate beautiful things as a consequence of our encounter with arts. -Art may influence us to change our ways and behavior as a result of the aesthetic experience we derived from the arts. -Arts are valuable sources of inspirations and aesthetic delightful experience through the artist works of art.

Importance of Art to Students

-Students can develop their creativity -Students learn about their identity -Students develop self-awareness -Students develop self-confidence -Students develop sense of well-being

J.V. Estolas

According to him, Art is derived from the Latin word "ars", meaning ability or skill.

A. Tan

According to him, Art is taken from the Italian word "artis", which means craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness, and the associations that exists between form and ideas, between material and technique.

Pablo Picasso

According to this artist, Art is a life that helps us to realize the truth.

Leonardo da Vinci

According to this artist, Art is never finished, inly abandoned.

Edgar Degas

According to this artist, Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Frank Lloyd Wright

According to this artist, Art is the discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Panizo and Rustia

According to this author, An art is the skilled arrangement or composition of some common but significant qualities of nature such as colors, sounds, lines, movements, words, stones, wood, etc., to express human feelings, emotions, or thoughts in a perfect, meaningful, and enjoyable way.

F. Zulueta

According to this author, Art is a product of man's need to express himself.

John Dewey

According to this author, Art is an attitude of spirit, a state of mind- one which demands for its own satisfaction and fulfilling, a shaping matter to new and more significant form.

C. Sanchez

According to this author, Art is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and feelings by means of sensuous medium, color, sound, bronze, marble, words and film.

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

According to this author, Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling, the artist has experienced.

George O'Keeffe

According to this author, Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Lisa Morder

According to this author, Art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination.

Amy Lowell

According to this author, Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the action of his personality in the world he lives in.

Plato

According to this philosopher, Art is that which brings life in harmony with the world.m

Aristotle

According to this philosopher, Art is the realization in external form of a true idea and traced back to that natural love of imitation which characterizes human.

Art

It is a subject under humanities that has no universal definition since it is subjective.

Humanities

term originated from the Renaissance Latin expression "studia humanitatis" or study of humanities which refers to "culture, refinement, education". These are academic disciplines that deal on the various aspects of society and the noble in man. Thus, ithey make man more humane, cultured, dignified and refine human being.