3. HUMANITIES I
WORKING GUIDE TO THE COURSE:ART, INDIVIDUAL and SOCIETY:
I. The Nature of Art
Working Definitions:
Glossary of Terms
Art and the Cosmos
The Relationship of Art and Nature
Art and Soul
Art and Ingenuity
Steps to Genius and Creativity
II. The Art Work
Elements and Principles
Sublimity and Magnitude
Heritage and LegaciesI
III. The Artist
The Image of the Artist as an Individual
The Image of the Artist in
an Ecology-conscious Society
The Image of the Artist in Globalization
Requirements: Participate in the following activities:
Educational Field Trip: National Museum and
Heritage Galleries in Metro Manila
Creative Exercises Yoga, Meditation, ESP and other Sensitivity
exercises
Film Showings and Performing Arts
Compulsary: Mid-Term Art Exhibit: Environmental Art
Submit a dossier of researches for Humanities
one as assigned in the Classes
13. STEPS TO GENIUS AND CREATIVITY
Curiosita – An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting
quest for continuous learning.
Dimostrazione – A commitment to test knowledge through experience,
persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
Sensazione – The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as
the means to enliven experience.
Sfumato – A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty
Arte/Scienza – The development of the balance between Science and
Art, Logic and Imagination. “Whole-Brain” thinking.
Corporalita – The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise.
Connessione – A recognition of and appreciation for the
interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. Systems thinking.
17. In aesthetics, the SUBLIME (from the Latin sublīmis)
is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral,
intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or
artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness
beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement
or imitation.
The Analytic of the Sublime is MAGNITUDE –
Immanuel Kant
18. ART is a Cultural HERITAGE. It is the legacy of physical artifacts (cultural
property) and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited
from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the
benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture
(such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and
artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and
knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally-significant landscapes,
and biodiversity).
The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is
known as Preservation (American English) or Conservation (British English),
though these terms may have more specific or technical meaning in the same
contexts in the other dialect.
Cultural heritage is often unique and irreplaceable, which places the
responsibility of preservation on the current generation. Smaller objects such as
artworks and other cultural masterpieces are collected in museums and art
galleries. Grass roots organizations and political groups, such as the international
body UNESCO, have been successful at gaining the necessary support to preserve
the heritage of many nations for the future.