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Title: Art Purposes The reasons the artwork is made, and what it will be used for.


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Art PurposesThe reasons the artwork is made,
and what it will be used for.
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Decorative
  • The artist creates the artwork, simply to make a
    space more attractive.
  • To use the elements because they simply look good
  • Ex. A still life drawing of flowers

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Decorative Example
  • Not telling a story
  • Not being used to convince anyone of anything
  • Not being used in a ceremony
  • Not necessarily being used to express the artists
    personal feelings at the time
  • Not serving a practical purpose.

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Expressive
  • Artist uses any elements of design to show how
    they feel at that moment.
  • Blue What human emotion?
  • Red What human emotion?

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Starry Night By Van Gogh
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Winslow Homer
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Functional
  • Art that serves a practical purpose in a
    decorative/artistic way.
  • Examples
  • A chair
  • A vanity
  • A building
  • A table

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A Functional SculptureChair/Throne
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Narrative
  • Art work that tells a story or part of a story.
  • A Book Cover
  • A Comic book illustration
  • A movie Poster
  • A Medieval Mosaic
  • A Medieval Egg Tempera Painting

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Medieval Art Mosaics and Egg Tempera Paintings
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Mosaics Cont.
  • Used to show the unification of church and state.
  • Not all mosaics told only bible stories, but were
    also used testify to significant events.

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Mosaics on Church Ceiling
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Ceremonial
  • Art that is used and created for being used in a
    ceremony of any kind.
  • Wedding Dress
  • Cup for Communion
  • Native American Healing ceremony
  • A mask carved from a living tree.

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Chalice/Cup for Communion
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Ceremonial Dress
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Persuasive
  • Art that argues a point
  • Attempting to convince its audience of an certain
    point of view.

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George Catlin
  • Prairie Meadows Burning,
  • 1832
  • oil

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John James Audubon
  • The California Parrot
  • What is he attempting to persuade Americans to?
  • These birds are now extinct.

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  • Art with an Anti-War message
  • Compare Picasso to the Photographs of Matthew
    Brady.

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