Purposes/Functions of Art Art is Communication: Artists Create art, in order to communicate visually and conceptually.
Personal Function Artist create art to express personal feelings Woman V Willem de Kooning
Personal Function Joan Miro’
Marc Chagall
Social Function Artists create to reinforce a shared sense of identity of community, or civilization Aminah Robinson Born 1940 (Columbus, Ohio ) painter and children's book illustrator. Elizabeth Catlett
Social Function Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Spiritual Function Artists create to express spiritual beliefs Michelangelo Pieta’ Pee-ey-tuh
Spiritual/Personal Michelangelo’s David Donatello’s David Renaissance 1501-1504 Renaissance 1430-1440
Physical Function Artists create functional artwork Native American Pottery James Sterling 1959 Architecture- England
What else could be Physical Function?
Educational Function Artist create artwork to impart information The Vision of the Holy Grail, Morris and Company, 1890 (tapestry)
Native American - Folk Art
What is the Function? Hint: Artwork sometimes has more than one function.
Hint: folktale
Canopic Jars
Jeff Koons Paul Klee
Cy Twombly
Romare Bearden Collage Artist