1. Purposes of Visual Arts
Ceremonial, Artistic Expression, Narrative, Functional, Persuasive

2. Ceremonial Art
Artworks created to support worship ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations.
Worn by the initiation leaders during the initiation rites, the mask represents the face of the Yaka ancestors who established the boys' initiation ceremonies.

3. Artistic Expression
Artwork intended to express or communicate emotions, ideas, feelings (e.g., for self-expression, to decorate or beautify objects)
Marcel Duchamp. (American, born France ). Bicycle Wheel. New York 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2" (129.5 x 63.5 x 41.9 cm).

4. Narrative Artworks
Artworks that tell stories, describe and illustrate experiences, or communicate information, art to document important or historical events
Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line 1932

5. Functional Artworks
Artistic objects used in everyday life (e.g., pottery, quilts, baskets, etc.).
Amy Sanders

6. Persuasive Artworks
Artworks that promote ideas, philosophies, or products (e.g., advertising, marketing, propaganda, ideology, etc.)

7. Subject Matter in Art
Representational (e.g., landscape, portrait, still life)
Abstract (Recognizable, but distorted)
Nonrepresentational (non-objective)