SCOPES OF THE

HUMANITIES
VISUAL ART

• Perceived by our eyes

Classification
1. Graphic: Flat or two dimensional
surface
2. Plastic arts: three dimensional
surface
GRAPHIC ARTS: FLAT OR TWO
DIMENSIONAL SURFACE

PAINTING DRAWING
 GRAPHIC PROCESS

RELIEF SURFACE
PAINTING PRINTING

INTAGLIO PRINTING
Commercial
Art
Photography

Mechanical Processes
PLASTIC ARTS: THREE DIMENSIONAL
SURFACE

Architecture Landscape City Planning

Architecture
Interior Design Craft

Sculpture
Industrial Dress
Design Costume Theater Design
Design
LITERATURE
• The art of combining spoken or written
words and their meanings into forms which
have artistic and emotional appeal
Drama is a form of literature

Essay non-fiction, expository (descriptive or

explanatory) writing tanging from informal,
personal topics to closely reasoned critical
treament of important subjects.
Prose Fiction includes narratives (stories)
created by the author, as distinguished from true
account.

Poetry is literature of a highly expressive nature

using special forms and choice of words and
emotional images.

Miscellaneous history, biography, letters,

journal, diaries and other works not formally
classed as literature often have definite literary
appeal and status due to the high quality of the
writing.
MUSIC
the art of arranging sound in rhythmic succession
and generally in combination.

Vocal Voice Instrumental Music

Music combined with other Arts

Opera is a drama set to music. It is mostly or entirely

sung with orchestral accompaniment.
Operetta and Musical Comedy is a drama set to music
but is light, popular, romantic, and often humorous or
comic
Oratorio and Cantata are sacred musical drama in
concert form
Other Forms
• Ballet music
• Background music for motion pictures
DRAMA OR THEATER
A drama, or play, is a story recreated by actors on a
stage in front of an audience

Tragedy Melodrama
Comedy includes all plays
with happy endings

Miscellaneous
• Tragicomedy
• Miracle and Mystery
Plays
• Morality Play
• Closet Drama
• Piano Drama
DANCE
involves the movement of the body and the feet in
rhythm.

Ethnologic
Involves the movement of the body and the feet
in rhythm.
Social or Ballroom Dances-Theses are popular
types of dancing generally performed by pairs.
The ballet- This is formalized type of dance
which originated in the royal courts of the middle
ages. Ballet dances may be either solo or
concerted dances with mimetic actions
accompanied by music.
Modern- are sometimes called contemporary or
interpretative dances.
Musical Comedy- refers to those dances
performed by soloists, group, choruses in
theaters, night clubs, motions pictures and
television.
METHODS OF
PRESENTING THE ART
SUBJECTS
The methods used by the artist are
• Realism
• Abstraction
• Symbolism
• Fauvism
• Dadaism
• Futurism
• Surrealism
REALISM
Objective, as much as possible.
• The artist’s main function is to describe as
accurately and honestly as possible what is
observed through the senses.
• There might be some emotional and mental
influence.
• Realistic = presentation and organization
seem so natural
 “Barong-Barong” Vicente
“Fernando Amorsolo’s
Manansala, 1958 (From Week
Painting”
end, 1981)
ABSTRACTION
• This is used when the
artist becomes so
interested in one phase of
a scene or a situation that
he does not show the
subject at all as an
objective reality, but only
his idea, or his feeling
about it. Constantin Brancusi
• Abstract = to move away "Bird in space (Yellow
or separate Bird)" 1923-24
Distortion

The Distorted Street

Faces by Andre Muniz
The Weeping Women
Gonzaga street art
Pablo Picasso
faces brazil
Mother and Child
Sculpture by Henry
Moore
 Elongation Mangling

Resurrection, 1584- Queens and Vagabonds Gina

94 by El Greco Litherland
 Cubism Abstract Expressionism
Shimmering
Substance,
1945 by
Jackson
Pollock

Blue Poles,
1952 by
Jackson
Pollock

Girl befor mirror/ The

guitar player by
Pablo Picasso