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18 Cards in this Set
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Purposes of Art: Art & Beauty
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Mona Lisa & Kenyan Woman.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Our Environment
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Interior Decorating
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Purposes of Art: Art & Truth
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True to nature, true to human experience, and true to materials. Art can be used to replicate nature, or reality, in the finest detail.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Immortality
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Immortalizations of humans. Marilyn Monroe -Andy Warhol.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Glory
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The desire to immortalize goes hand in hand with the desire to glorify. Some of art history's wealthiest patrons have had works created to to glorify their reigns and accomplishments.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Religion/Ideology
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Healing rituals, biblical stories, reliving or interpreting religious beliefs and ideologies--ideologies articulate the way societies look at things.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Fantasy
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Serves as a vehicle by which artist can express their innermost fantasies.
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Purposes of Art: Art, Intellect, and Emotion
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Reading the words without the art.
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Example of art as ideology:
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Betty Saar: Liberation of Aunt Jemima
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Purposes of Art: Art creates order, and harmony
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Unity vs Chaos
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Purposes of Art: Chaos
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Variety vs Unity
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Order Vs. Chaos example of art
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Compare and Contrast Henri Matisse vs Romare Bearden (piano lessons)
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Purposes of Art: Art records Experience & Memory
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Used to record experiences and events. "The Steerage" (1907) A photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. Black and white photo on the boat where you can see upper and lower class.
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Purposes of Art: Art reflects the Social & Cultural Contexts of Social Consciousness
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In recording experience, artists frequently record the activities and objects of their times and places, reflecting contemporary fashions and beliefs, as well as the states of the crafts and sciences.
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Purposes of Art: Art & Pop Culture
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Commonplace, everyday objects, visual cliche's, food labels, cans, automobiles with women next to them, etc.
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Purposes of Art: Art & the needs of the artist
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"Self-actualization"--the need to fulfill ones' potential. Art permits the individual to meet the needs of achievement or self-actualization and, at the same, earn a living. Ex: S.P Dinsmoore: Garden of Eden
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Vincent Van Gogh's art revenue, during his lifetime.
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He only sold a few works in his lifetime out of over a thousand paintings & drawings. He wasn't in it for the money.
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What is the role of the artist?
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Record & commemorate. Give tangible form to something unknown. Give tangible form to feelings & ideas.
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