Reasons for Art
Wearable Art Worn for spiritual worship
Subali/Sugriwi – Balinese Mask
Idols to Worship Objects wish become fetishized
Spiritual Figure / Idol Nkisi Nkonde African Power Figure
To Tell A Story from the Past
The Story Teller 1964 Helen Cordero
To Communicate An Opinion or Point of View Very common today: Post Modernism
Ben Shahn Liberation1945
Visualize Dreams Surrealists Dada
Salvador DaliThe Broken Bridge and The Dream1945
Document the feeling of a Place Impressionists
Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte
Depict the Beauty of Nature
Georgia O’Keefe Black Iris 1926
Political Commentary Murals Public Art
David Alvaro Siquerios For the Complete Safety of All Mexicans (detail of Mural)
Personal Identity (self-portraits) Not only images of the person Self- exploration Psychological Cross-over with surrealism
Frida Kahlo The Frame 1938
Illustrate a Story (Myth) Educate the viewer about a particular culture
Marc Chagall Then the Daughter of the Pharoh Opened the Arke and Sawe it was a Childe, From the Story of Exodus 1966
Marc Chagall La Chute d’lcare
Metaphor “juxtaposition” of two elements to create what is called a “third term” Also called a “poetic image”
Winslow HomerThe Gulf Stream1899
Environmental Conservation Attention to the environment
Christo & Jeanne-Claude The Umbrellas, Japan & USA
Document of an Actual Place Photo realism Photograph
Richard EstesWoolworth’s1974
Richard EstesWaverly Place1980
To Depict Everyday life
George SegalThree People on Four Benches1979
Question Artworld Conventions Usually establish an art historical turning point or “movement”
Marcel DuChamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912
Others Reasons To Make Art?