1. Functional Art
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2. Functional art is art that serves a specific purpose
Examples:

3. What do you Notice about this kind of art?

4. It is more Decorative and most careers in art revolve around Functional art

5. Careers in Art

6. This Kind of Art Has been around for a really long time
Why: Clay can me gotten in the ground. So it is cheap and it filled a need. People needed pots, dishes, and containers for food and other items

7. As early as 24,000 BC, animal and human figurines were made from clay and other materials
First Art Ever Made Year Development
24,000 B.C. Ceramic figurines used for ceremonial purposes
14,000 B.C. First tiles made in Mesopotamia and India
,000 B.C. Pottery making begins
B.C. Glazes discovered in Egypt
1500 B.C. Glass objects first made
1550 A.D. Synthetic refractories (temperature resistant) for furnaces used to make steel, glass, ceramics, cement
Mid 1800’s Porcelain electrical insulation
Incandescent light bulb
1920’s High-strength quartz-enriched porcelain for insulators
Alumina spark plugs
Glass windows for automobiles
1940’s Capacitors and magnetic ferrites
1960’s Alumina insulators for voltages over 220 kV
Application of carbides and nitrides
1970’s Introduction of high-performance cellular ceramic substrates for catalytic converters and particulate filters for diesel engines
1980’s High temperature superconductors

8. Ancient Egypt : Canopic Jars

9. Ancient Greek Pottery: Story Telling

10. Archaeologists study pottery because it tells you a lot of a culture
Example: if someone found your phone what would they find out about you
Phones in a box and guess

11. Why it is important?

12. Flower and Plant Jewelry Tiles

13. Pinch Pots : Create a Functional Pinch pot with at least 4 Tactile Textures

14. https://prezi.com/jjioikerfyyf/the-art-and-history-of-coil-pottery/

15. Coil Pots: Create a functional coil pot with at least 6 tactile textures

17. project: Functional I pod/ I Phone Speaker
Ancient pottery was made to fill a need, but in today’s time we don’t need a pot to hold water.
Create a speaker with 6 types of tactile textures and 3 different types of coils