humanism

Examples of humanism in the following topics:

• Humans and Their Deities

  • For example, human burials between 50,000 and 30,000 BCE provide evidence of human belief in an afterlife and possibly in deities, although it is not clear when human belief in deities became the dominant view.
  • Typically, they rarely reveal or manifest themselves to humans, and make themselves known mainly through their effects.
  • In polytheism, deities are conceived of as a counterpart to humans: humans are defined by their station subject to the deities, nourishing them with prayers or sacrifices, and deities are defined by their sovereignty over humans, punishing and rewarding them, but also depending on their worship.
  • This same concept is also present in monotheistic and henotheistic religions.The boundary between human and divine in most cultures is by no means absolute.
  • Demigods are the offspring of a union between human and deity, and most royal houses in Antiquity claimed divine ancestors.

• What Does Art Do?

  • A fundamental purpose inherent to most artistic disciplines is the underlying intention to appeal to, and connect with, human emotion.
  • A fundamental purpose common to most art forms is the underlying intention to appeal to, and connect with, human emotion.
  • In its broadest form, art may be considered an exploration of the human condition, or a product of the human experience.
  • Historically, the fine arts were meant to appeal to the human intellect, though currently there are no true boundaries.
  • In general terms, the fine arts represent an exploration of the human condition and the attempt to experience a deeper understanding of life.

• Archaeology

  • Archaeology is the study of historical human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and data they have left behind.
  • Because archaeology employs a wide range of different procedures, it can be considered to be both a science and a humanity.
  • The purpose of archaeology is to learn more about past societies and the development of the human race.
  • Many important developments in human history occurred during prehistory, including the evolution of humanity during the Palaeolithic period.
  • Without archaeology, we would know little or nothing about the use of material culture by humanity that pre-dates writing.

• Humanism

  • Humanism was an intellectual movement embraced by scholars, writers, and civic leaders in 14th century Italy.
  • Humanism, also known as Renaissance humanism, was an intellectual movement embraced by scholars, writers, and civic leaders in 14th and early 15th century Italy.
  • There were important centres of humanism in Florence, Naples, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Mantua, Ferrara, and Urbino.
  • Humanism affected the artistic community and how artists were perceived.
  • Assess how humanism gave rise to the art of the Renasissance

• Paleolithic Cave Paintings

  • Paleolithic cave paintings demonstrate early humans' capacity to give meaning to their surroundings and communicate with others.
  • Tracings of human hands and hand stencils were also very popular, as well as abstract patterns called finger flutings.
  • Drawings of humans were rare and were usually schematic as opposed to the detailed and naturalistic images of animals.
  • As is typical of most cave art, there are no paintings of complete human figures in Chauvet.
  • Human occupation was limited to the cave mouth, although paintings were created throughout the length of the cave.

• Art of Ancient Africa

  • African art is characterized by emphasis on the human figure, sculpture, performance art, and nonlinear scaling.
  • Masks are important elements in the art of many peoples, along with human figures, often highly stylized.
  • This was most notable in the addition of the human figure, as the human figure typically did not appear in Portuguese saltcellars.
  • Another common theme is the inter-morphosis of human and animal.
  • Discuss the elements of human figure, sculpture, performance art, and nonlinear scaling found in Ancient African art.

• The Stone Age

  • Stone Age art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.
  • The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.
  • For the first time, humans began to create durable products of self expression that served no function for survival.
  • The images are predominately depictions of animals, human hand prints, and geometric patterns.
  • Also the oldest known, undisputed depiction of a human being in prehistoric art.

• Sacrifices

  • Sacrifice is the offering of the lives of animals or humans to God or gods as an act of propitiation or worship.
  • While bloodless sacrifices are referred to as "offerings," other sacrifices involve the offering of the lives of animals or humans to a higher purpose or to God or the gods as an act of propitiation or worship.
  • Human sacrifice was also practiced by many ancient cultures.
  • According to a view that has featured prominently in Western theology, God sent Jesus as a sacrifice to atone for human sin.
  • The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on an unusually large scale; for instance, a sacrifice would be made every day to aid the sun in rising.

• The Northern Renaissance

  • Before 1450, Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy; after 1450, these ideas began to spread throughout Europe.
  • Before 1450, Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy; however, from the late fifteenth century, these ideas began to spread across Europe.
  • Although Renaissance humanism and the large number of surviving classical artworks and monuments in Italy encouraged many Italian painters to explore Greco-Roman themes, Northern Renaissance painters developed other subject matters, such as landscape and genre painting.

• Painting in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • For example, earlier art might have featured a lamb or a fish rather than Christ in human form.
  • Before long, religious figures were being depicted in their human form to emphasize their humanity as well as their spirituality.
  • Red signifies divine life, while blue is the color of human life.
  • In icons of Jesus and Mary, Jesus wears a red undergarment with a blue outer garment (God as Human), and Mary wears a blue undergarment with a red outer garment (humanity granted divine gifts).
  • Christ, seated in the middle, wears a blue garment over a red one to symbolize his status as God made human.