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Defining the Humanities

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Humanities is the study of human culture through being analytical. In the humanities are language, history, philosophy, religion and the arts. The analyzing of these subjects helps to understand and mold humanities. It is a very widespread subject that covers multiple little subjects and time periods. These include the Medieval, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Modern, just to name a few. All these time periods had multiple elements that made each of them unique. Some things include the different philosophers who helped create the ideas for that time period, the different rulers of the countries of power, the teachings, the literature people read, and the multiple types of art as well. Humanities is a combination of everything that has been studied to create culture and what culture means today and how it is constantly being developed and changed and thought about by the new generations and periods of the day. Art is thought process put down on a canvas for others to interpret for themselves. The different types of classifications of art help make it easier or harder to decipher a piece of art’s message. When surrealism was big, it was harder to figure out what the painter was trying to portray and many would say that it is not art at all, but yet they would still buy it and one day it would be famous. Many of the famous paintings today were not popular during their time period and most of the artists were considered crazy for their paintings. Yet today, after they are dead their paintings are priceless. There is always one question though, what makes it art? That is a hard answer to define; it is just about as easy as defining love and beauty. The closest we can get to a definition is that it is infinite and it has infinite possibilities from one’s own interpretation, and that is exactly what art is, one’s own interpretation of whether or not it fits into the category of art. Style is the factor that makes somethin

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