PURPOSES PURPOSES OF VISUAL OF VISUAL ARTART

WHY PEOPLE CREATE WHY PEOPLE CREATE ARTART

5 specific 5 specific purposes of artpurposes of artARTISTIC EXPRESSIONARTISTIC EXPRESSION

–Expresses or Expresses or communicates:communicates:EmotionEmotionIdeasIdeasfeelingsfeelings

5 specific 5 specific purposes of artpurposes of art - - continuedcontinuedCEREMONIALCEREMONIAL

–Observe ritualObserve ritual–CelebrationCelebration–CommemorationCommemoration

5 specific 5 specific purposes of artpurposes of art - - continuedcontinuedFunctionalFunctional

–Create artistic objects Create artistic objects used in everyday lifeused in everyday life

5 specific 5 specific purposes of artpurposes of art - - continuedcontinued PersuasivePersuasive

–Promote ideas or productsPromote ideas or productsAdvertisingAdvertisingMarketingMarketingPropagandaPropagandaideologyideology

5 specific 5 specific purposes of artpurposes of art - - continuedcontinued NarrativeNarrative

–Tell storiesTell stories–Describe or illustrate Describe or illustrate experiencesexperiences

–Communicate ideas or Communicate ideas or informationinformation

–Document historical eventsDocument historical events

What purpose of art is What purpose of art is this?this?

Saturn was the roman name Saturn was the roman name for Cronus, the god for Cronus, the god associated in late Greek associated in late Greek mythology with time. He mythology with time. He swallowed his children after swallowed his children after being told that one of them being told that one of them would dethrone him. Only would dethrone him. Only Zeus, who later did Zeus, who later did dethrone him, escaped. The dethrone him, escaped. The painting symbolizes how painting symbolizes how time ravages and destroys time ravages and destroys all humans. Unlike Zeus, all humans. Unlike Zeus, mere mortals cannot evade mere mortals cannot evade his clutches.his clutches.

What purpose of art What purpose of art was Goya representing?was Goya representing? SATURN DEVOURING HIS

CHILDREN (1824) by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya.

What purpose of art is What purpose of art is this?this?

There are two Different purposesOf Art here. What are they?

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Is the quilt on the left a different purpose from the quilt on the right?

What purpose of art is What purpose of art is this?this?

Name all the different art objects. Are the purposes different?

What purpose of art is What purpose of art is this?this?

What was Michelangelo's purpose for creating the Pieta?