Humanities, Art and Aesthetic

HUMANITIES

Came from the latin word HUMANUS meaning human, cultured, refined.

Has various connotation depending on the political, economic, social, artistic and cultural forces that surround the different historical eras.

Today, humanities refer to a loosely defined group of cultural subject area:

ART

- Visual arts – painting, sculpture, architecture

- Performing arts – music, dance, drama, theater arts

SOME PURPOSES OF ART

- To create beauty

- To provide decorations

- To reveal truth

- To immortalize

- To express religious values

- To record and commemorate experience

- To create order and harmony

ELEMENTS OF ART

LINE – an element of art that is used to define shape, contours, and outlines, also to suggest mass and volume. It may be continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the edges of shapes and forms.

* Characteristics of Line

Width

Length

Direction

Focus

Feeling

COLOR – comes from light; if it weren't for light we would have no color.

* Categories of colors

Primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Intermediate Colors

Complementary Colors

SHAPES – is two dimensional, it has heights and width but no depth.

* Categories of Shapes

Geometric Shapes

Organic Shapes

Positive Shapes

Negative Shapes

Static Shapes

Dynamic Shapes

PICTURE PLANE – is the surface of your drawing paper.

* Categories of Space

Positive space

Negative space

Picture Plane

Composition

Focal Point

TEXTURE – is the surface quality of an object.

* Categories of Texture

Real Texture

Implied Texture

VALUE – is the range of lightness and darkness within a picture.

* Categories of Values

Tint

Shade

High-Key

Low- Key

Value...