Reasons for Art

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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 Liberation 1945
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Visualize Dreams

• Surrealists
• Dada

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Salvador Dali The Broken Bridge and The Dream 1945
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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 OKeefe 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 dlcare 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 Homer The Gulf Stream 1899
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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 Estes Woolworths 1974
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Richard Estes Waverly Place 1980
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To Depict Everyday life
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George Segal Three People on Four Benches 1979
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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?