Humanities Midterms 2

Singkaban

Fil word for decorated bamboo arch

used as a welcome signage in a town or village

widely used as decoration during town fiestas in Bulacan

medium

material / substance of which a work is made

artists express and communicate feelings and ideas with this

defines nature of the art forms

nature of the art forms

sculptor

architect

painter

printmaker

musician

dancer

theater artist

photographer

filmmaker
writer

designer

literature

sculptor

uses metal, wood, stone, and glass

sculptures are 3-D art bcs they occupy space and have volume

UP Oblation or Bul-ul / Tinatagtaggu

architect

uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone and other building materials

painter

uses pigments on a usually flat ground

Painting

Vicente Manansala

BenCab

printmaker

uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (Wood, metal plates, or silk screen) that is in keeping w/ a duplicating or reproducing process

musician

uses sound and instruments (including the human voice)

dancer

uses the body and its movements

theater artist

integraes all the arts and uses the stage, production design, performance elements and script to enable the visual, musical, dance, and other aspects to come together as a whole work

photographer (and filmmaker)

use the camera to record the outside world

filmmaker

uses the cinematography camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering, performance, and screenplay

writer of a novel, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction

uses words

designer

the performance artists, and the installation artist combine use of the range of materials

literature

Juan Crisostomo Soto

• journalist, poet, playwright

• father of Pampanga literature

• Santa Ines, Bacolor, Pampanga

classification of arts (on the basis of medium)

practical arts

environmental arts

narrative arts

dramatic arts

muscial arts

practical arts

primarily meant to be functional in everyday life

environmental arts

involve the use of space, or are analyzed in the way that they interact w/ their surroundings

narrative arts

creative works that follow a sequential / story structure, such as events unfolding across time, foremost applied in the literary sense, but also encompasses other media that follows this sequential logic

dramatic arts

term tied up w/ theater

used (in the book) to describe works done by or for a performance–based representation, such as by actors

musical arts

harness a logical arrangement of sound (one of the most common of which is rhythm)

observable in music, poetry, and dance (w/ musical accompaniment)

technique

manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect, and communicate the desired conecpt / meaning accdng to his/her personal style

process / method of using the medium in a manner that he/she wishes to finish an art work

ex: etching, printing transfer design, hatching, coloring, cutting

art is “artifact”

directly experienced or perceived (live or directly in real time)

can be spacial and static or unmoving or time-based and in motion (live theater production)

when we experience a work indirectly or through a medium (like film / video) we describe it as a “recorded” or documented work

recorded - watched in real time but not at the site of production (ex: documented play, film, exhibit, or an ad watched through an electronic medium)