HUMANITIES 2 Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions WHAT IS ART TO YOU? THE CREATIVE ART • Art is the expression and the application of human creative skills and imagination. • Art is typically in a visual form e.g. painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. • Is a product of work to be appreciated primarily for its beauty and emotional power. • Is a diverse range of human activity. So much so that there is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes an art. • According to scientists, a Neanderthal made the first known artwork on Earth more than 65,000 years ago when he stroked onto the wall of a cave using red ochre (impure iron ore used as pigment). THE BEAUTY OF ART • Art forces humans to look beyond that which is necessary to survive and leads people to create for the sake of expression and meaning. • Art can communicate information, shape everyday lives, make a social statement and be enjoyed for aesthetic beauty. • It brings forth activity, creativity, satisfaction, and happiness. • An artist is like a God of his own creative world. He has the ability and the power to imitate or mimic life. According to the ancient Greeks, art's power resides in its ability to represent nature; the closer, more real, and more natural the representation, the closer the art work is to truth, beauty—and power. RELEVANCE OF ART • Art appreciation improves quality of life and makes people feel good. When art is created, the mood is elevated. Thus, the ability to solve problem is also elevated, opening the minds to new ideas. • People want to express themselves, to let other people know who they are, what they think, what they are feeling. They sometimes prefer to express themselves artistically rather than just telling other people what they are feeling and thinking in a more straightforward and less symbolic way. • Art has the ability to make people feel different things, interpret things differently, and change their opinions. • It is the sharing of an experience or a thought in a creative way; it is for the enjoyment of people. RELEVANCE OF ART • Math and science are important, certainly, but the visual arts push children and learners’ creativity and divergent thinking skills to the next level. If children practice thinking creatively, it will come naturally to them now and in their future careers. • Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Art, in this sense, is communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds, and stories. Art is often a vehicle for social change. • Life without art will lose its taste and attractiveness. Motivation, diversity, passion, and inspiration which move people’s soul will turn gray. Life would become boring, a sloid monotony that does not introduce changes. DO YOU THINK THERE IS LIFE IN ART? • Art is a testimony of the human condition. It encompasses all of people’s hardships, emotions, questions, decisions, perceptions. Love, hatred, life, death. Essentially the way in which people perceive the world, every aspect of humanity can be expressed through art. • Art makes it possible to make movies, music, or art galleries. • When you look at a new piece of art, your brain starts looking for patterns, shapes, and anything else that is familiar to make you feel more connected to the piece. Even if you don't “get” it, your brain is still going to work, trying to find meaning in what you're looking at. • The oldest artwork is a hand-drawn pig. CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART • Performing Arts • These arts comprise dance, music, theatre, opera, mime, and other art forms in which a human performance is the principal product. • Performing arts are distinguished by a performance element in contrast with disciplines such as visual and literary arts where the product is an object that does not require a performance to be observed and experienced. • Each discipline in the performing arts is temporal in nature, meaning the product is performed over a period of time. • Products are broadly categorized as being either repeatable (for example, by script) or improvised for each performance. • Artists who participate in these arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, magicians, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers. • Performing arts are also supported by the services of other artists or essential workers, such as songwriting and stagecraft. Performers often adapt their appearance with tools such as costume and stage makeup. CLASSIFICATIONS OF ART • Visual Arts • Literary Arts • Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary. The noun "literature" comes from the Latin word littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)." The term has generally come to identify a collection of writings, which in Western culture are mainly prose (both fiction and non-fiction), drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, the artistic linguistic expression can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry. Comics, the combination of drawings or other visual arts with narrating literature, are often called the "ninth art”. FORMS OF PERFORMING ARTS • Dance • Dance (from Old French dancier, of unknown origin) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. • Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (e.g. bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (e.g. the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres. • Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. • Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified techniques such as ballet. In sports, gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are dance disciplines while Martial arts "kata" are often compared to dances. FORMS OF PERFORMING ARTS • Music • Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. • The art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. • The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. • Expresses ideas and emotions. FORMS OF PERFORMING ARTS • Theater • Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. • The performers may communicate experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. • Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. • The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάοµαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). FORMS OF VISUAL ARTS • Architecture • Ceramics • Conceptual Art • Drawing • Painting • Photography • Sculpture • Filmmaking • Design and crafts
