The Humanities: An Introduction to the Adventure The Arts

The Pictorial Arts Medium used? Lines and Shapes? Color and Light? Patterns? Does it create a meaningful whole?

Two-Dimensional Art Media: paintings, drawings, prints and photography Composition elements and principles: line, form, color, repetition and balance

Sculpture Full Round or Relief? Material? Texture? Movement? Relation of sculpture to site?

Sculpture Dimensionality: full-round, relief, linear Texture

Architecture Function of building? Materials used for construction? Design? Relation between interior and exterior? Any other arts used?

Architecture Systems of structure: post-and-lintel, cantilever, arch, vault

Music Melody and Rhythm? Instruments or voices? Where? For What Purpose? Form of composition?

Music Genres: symphony, mass, concerto, opera, oratorio Melody: musical ideas, themes, motifs

Dance Popular? Ballet? Modern? Relation between dance and music? Mimetic? Movements compose a whole?

Dance Ballet, modern dance, folk dance Compositional elements: line, form and repetition

Theater Genres: tragedy, comedy Elements: plot, characters, thought, visual elements

Theater Play staged through set, lighting, costumes? Director and actors interpret script?

Opera How is it staged? Relation between words and music? Director’s interpretation of script? Instruments and voices used? How singers interpret musical score and dramatic script? How is dance incorporated to script?

Literature Genres: fiction, poetry, biography, essay Elements: point of view, character, plot, theme and language

Poetry Form of poem? Patterns of sound? (meter, rhythm) Metaphors? Symbols?

Film Narrative, documentary, absolute

Personal Response What is my response to work of art? How is response shaped by work itself and my life experience?