Chapter 3 Studying Art and Humanities (page 17-20)

1. Humanities

1.1. This represents the best that man has creates

2. Evolution of Science and Art

2.1. Science is produced by man explaining about the external world that he observes.

2.2. Art is produce as man revealing the world within him.

3. Refers to the subjective and evocative world of feelings and experience.

4. Art Being a process that man engages in, anchor to the enironment is what its shaping.

5. Categories of Art

5.1. The west nurtured Arts that produced distinct categories.

5.2. The East has embraced the ancient civilization of the babylons, sumerians, akkadians, and even the egyptians.

6. The west refers to Europe where art grew from the from Greeks and which art spread throughout the world.

7. The term 'WEST' and 'EAST' are simply products of nomenclature from the

8. Culture and Art

9. Culture is composed of everything tangible and intangible man does and thinks of in a given time and place.

9.1. Culture is an accumulation of shared knowledge, experiences, beliefs, values, attitude, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time and space, toles, concepts of the universe and material objects and possessions acquired by people living in a contiguous space through generations.

9.2. A culture nurtures a way of life that rears this accumulation of thoughts and behaviors passed through each person and to the next generation by a system of symbols.

10. Symbols are images, gestures, movement, objects, arrangements, among many others  that requires meaning that are recognized by those who share a particular culture.

11. The study of symbols is  what we call SEMIOTICS