Introduction to Humanities

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Introduction to Humanities

• Review
• Of the Arts

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PAINTING

• Painting is the art that has most to do with
  revealing the visual appearance of objects and
  events.
• The most basic elements of painting are line,
  shape, light, texture, and color.
• The eye is the chief sense organ involved in our
  participation with painting
• Representational paintings furnishes the world
  with definite objects and events.
• Abstract paintings offers us a complete rest from
  practical concerns.

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SCULPTURE

• Along with painting and architecture is
  classified as one of the visual arts.
• It engages our senses differently than painting
  does because it occupies space as a
  three-dimensional mass.
• Sunken-Relief Sculpture carving cut grooves of
  various depths into the surface plane of the
  stone.
• Surface-Relief Low-Relief High-Relief etc.

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ARCHITECTURE

• Is the creative conservation of space.
• Space is the material of the architect.
• Four necessities of architecture
• Technical requirement buildings must stand (and
  withstand).
• Functional requirements they must stand in such
  a way that they reveal their function or use.
• Spatial requirements relationships with
  surrounding buildings.
• Content subject matter relevant values of
  society.

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LITERATURE

• Is an art whose medium is language used to affect
  the imagination.
• Fiction writers and poets share many of the
  techniques of literature because their effects
  depend on universal language art.
• Language has denotation a literal level where
  words mean what they obviously say, and
  connotation a subtler level at which words mean
  more than they obviously say.

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DRAMA

• Is a species of literature whose basic medium is
  spoken language.
• It can be read, somewhat like a poem or a novel.
• The word drama comes from the Greek word
  meaning act.
• Drama is spoken language acted, to be produced
  for public exhibition, usually upon a stage.

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MUSIC

• Is one of the most powerful of the arts partly
  because sounds more than any other sensory
  stimulus create in us involuntary reactions,
  pleasant or unpleasant.
• There is no escaping the effects of music except
  by turning off the source.
• It can be experienced in two ways hearing or
  listening.

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DANCE

• Moving bodies shaping space.
• At its most basic level, the subject matter of
  dance is abstract motion.
• In abstract dance the center of interest is upon
  visual patterns.
• It is rhythmic, unfolding in time, and thus has
  common ground with music.
• Most is accompanied by music.

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FILM

• When we evaluate a film, all of these elements
  come into play
• Cinematography, the care with which the film was
  photographed,
• Structure, the completeness and excellence of the
  script or story line,
• Acting and character development,
• Editing of separate shots
• Music, the way sound evokes emotion or
  establishes mood.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

• When it became widely available in the 1940s and
  1950s the images printed on paper were in
  black-and-white or sepia (brown-and-white).
• The success of photography in reproducing
  realistic scenes and people had an instant impact
  on painting.