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Reasons for Art
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Wearable Art Worn for spiritual worship
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Subali/Sugriwi – Balinese Mask
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Idols to Worship Objects wish become fetishized
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Spiritual Figure / Idol Nkisi Nkonde African Power Figure
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To Tell A Story from the Past
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The Story Teller 1964 Helen Cordero
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To Communicate An Opinion or Point of View Very common today: Post Modernism
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Ben Shahn Liberation1945
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Visualize Dreams Surrealists Dada
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Salvador DaliThe Broken Bridge and The Dream1945
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Document the feeling of a Place Impressionists
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Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884-1885
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Depict the Beauty of Nature
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Georgia O’Keefe Black Iris 1926
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Political Commentary Murals Public Art
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David Alvaro Siquerios For the Complete Safety of All Mexicans (detail of Mural)
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Personal Identity (self-portraits) Not only images of the person Self- exploration Psychological Cross-over with surrealism
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Frida Kahlo The Frame 1938
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Illustrate a Story (Myth) Educate the viewer about a particular culture
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Marc Chagall Then the Daughter of the Pharoh Opened the Arke and Sawe it was a Childe, From the Story of Exodus 1966
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Marc Chagall La Chute d’lcare 1974-1977
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Metaphor “juxtaposition” of two elements to create what is called a “third term” Also called a “poetic image”
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Winslow HomerThe Gulf Stream1899
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Environmental Conservation Attention to the environment
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Christo & Jeanne-Claude The Umbrellas, Japan & USA 1984-91
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Document of an Actual Place Photo realism Photograph
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Richard EstesWoolworth’s1974
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Richard EstesWaverly Place1980
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To Depict Everyday life
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George SegalThree People on Four Benches1979
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Question Artworld Conventions Usually establish an art historical turning point or “movement”
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Marcel DuChamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912
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Others Reasons To Make Art?
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