What Is Art (For)?

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Your textbook discusses 16 reasons people make and enjoy art: the book is Understanding Art, 10th edition. author Lois Fichner-Rathus

1. Art creates beauty

2. Art enhances our environment

3. Art reveals truth

4. Art immortalizes

5. Art increases one’s glory

6. Art expresses religious or spiritual beliefs

7. Art conveys or counters ideologies

8. Art expresses fantasy

9. Art stimulates the intellect or emotions

10. Art creates order and harmony

11. Art expresses chaos

12. Art records and/or commemorates experience

13. Art reflects social or cultural context

14. Art motivates social consciousness

15. Art references popular culture or elevates the commonplace

16. Art meets the needs of the artist/provides personal expression

Look through your textbook (all chapters except Chapter 1) and select one artwork each to illustrate any 10 of the 16 artistic functions listed above. Write a sentence or two for each image, explaining how your example illustrates the concept and including the page number on which that image can be found. (For example: Andy Warhol’s Green Coca-Cola Bottles on p. 505 reflects popular culture and elevates the commonplace by suggesting that cheap, consumer products like Coca-Cola are themes worthy of artistic attention.”) In addition, think of two additional purposes art can serve that are not mentioned in the list above, and find one artwork to illustrate each.

Required: 16 sentences and 12 images, 10 illustrating concepts from Chapter 1, and two illustrating additional reasons people make art that are not mentioned in Chapter 1.