1. Arts and Humanities K. Thompson Central Hardin High School
The Purposes of Art
Arts and Humanities
K. Thompson
Central Hardin High School

2. Artistic Expression: to express or communicate emotion, ideas, or feelings
Children Playing on the Beach, Mary Cassatt
The Scream, Edvard Munch
Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh

3. Ceremonial: to observe ritual, celebration, commemoration
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Ying Lin
Flag Raising at Iwo Jima, by more than 200 sculptors
A thurible or censer used in Roman Catholic church services

4. Functional: to create artistic objects used in everyday life
Chairs designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
A variety of Native American baskets
A blown glass vase

5. Narrative: to tell stories, describe/illustrate experiences, document historical events
The Seamstress, by Jacob Lawrence
Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze
Immigrant Mother by Dorothea Lange

6. Persuasive: to promote ideas or products—advertising, marketing, propaganda, ideology
“Got Milk?” Ad
War Posters/Propoganda, from WWII

7. 1. Complete the Purposes of Art Activity. 2
1. Complete the Purposes of Art Activity Thoughtfully complete an art project.