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LECTURE 2.

1
Art and the
Human Essence

DR. ALLAN C.
DR. ALLAN
ORATE, UE C.
ORATE, UE
Who am I?
THE BASIC QUESTION
IN THE HUMANITIES
Who am I?
“I am a human being.”
What is a
human being?
THE
HUMAN
ESSENCE

Leonardo, Vitruvian Man, 1490


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DR. ALLAN C.
THREE HUMAN FACULTIES

MIND REASON THINKING

WILL EMOTION FEELING

SENSES PERCEPTIO SENSING


Eyes N Seeing
Ears Sensation Hearing
Nose Smelling
Tongue Tasting
Skin Touching
Imagination Imagining
DR. ALLAN C.
ANALYSIS OF ART BASED ON THE
THREE HUMAN FACULTIES
LEVEL OF THE
SENSES
1. PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
Sense-Data: Lines, Color, Shapes, etc.
2. REPRESENTATIONS
Things, People, Objects, Events
LEVEL OF THE
WILL
3. EMOTIONAL SUGGESTIONS
Happy, Sad, Afraid, Anger, Love,
Pain, Tired, Ill, Anxiety, Jealousy,
Grief
LEVEL OF THE
MIND
4. INTELLECTUAL MEANING
Ideas, Concepts, Symbolism
Mondrian,
Composition with
Red, Yellow and
Blue, 1924

VISUAL
ELEMENTS
COLORS: Red,
Yellow, Blue, White,
Black

SHAPES: Rectangles,
Square

LINES: Straight,
Horizontal and
Vertical DR. ALLAN C.
Amorsolo
Winnowing VISUAL
COLOR
Rice, 1957 ELEMENTS
SHAPES
LINES

REPRESENTATI
ONS PEOPLE:
Woman
Farmers
ANIMALS:
Chicken
Carabao
THINGS:
Trees
Nipa Hut
Sky
Clouds
Mountain
EVENTS
Winnowing
Planting
Cooking
DR. ALLAN C.
Munch
The Scream
1893

VISUAL
ELEMENTS
COLORS, SHAPES,
LINES

REPRESENTATIO
NS THINGS,
PEOPLE,
EVENTS

EMOTIONAL
SUGGESTION
FEAR OR TERROR: Shown by
the facial expression, and by the
curving lines of red, yellow,
orange of the sky
DR.
DR. ALLAN
ALLAN C.
C.
Steenwyck, The
Vanities
of Human Life
1645

VISUAL ELEMENTS
COLORS,
etc.

REPRESENTATIONS
THINGS,
etc.
EMOTIONS
SUGGESTIONS
SADNESS

INTELLECTUAL
MEANINGS
CONCEPTS, IDEAS,
SYMBOLS
INTELLECTUAL MEANING: Ideas, Concepts and
Symbols in Art
From the Book
of Ecclesiastes
in the Bible

MEMENTO MORI
Reflecting about
Death

Steenwyck
The Vanities
of Human Life 1645
LIGHT Optimism SHELL Wealth SKULL Death DARK Pessimism
Hope, God
MUSICAL CLOCK Time
INSTRUMENTS
Beauty LAMP End of Life

HELMET Power SAMURAI Suicide

JAR Celebration

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