1. Four Traditional roles of art Four traditional roles of the artist
As defined by Henry M. Sayre in his book, A World of Art

2. To Record the world Keeping a Historical Record
History can be recorded visually.
Much of the ancient art was made when people were illiterate.

3. Autun Cathedral, Last Judgment, West tympanum, c. 1130, Autun Cathedral

4. To Giving form to feelings
Giving Form to Intangibles
Art makes emotions, and experiences, more visible.

5. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker in The Gates of Hell, c. 1917

6. Francis Bacon, Study for the Head of a Screaming Pope, 1952

7. To Reveal hidden truths
A skilled artist can bring out hidden or obscure truths.
Picasso’s Guernica is a great example of revealing the suffering of the massacre at Guernica in 1937.

8. PABLO Picasso, Guernica, 1937

9. To Help us see the world in a new Innovative way
An artist sees the same things as others, but interprets them in an innovative way.