1. Purposes/Functions of Art
Art is Communication:
Artists Create art, in order to communicate visually and conceptually.

3. Personal Function Artist create art to express personal feelings
Woman V
Willem de Kooning

4. Personal Function
Joan Miro’

5. Marc Chagall

7. Social Function Artists create to reinforce a shared sense of identity of community, or civilization
Aminah Robinson
Born 1940 (Columbus, Ohio ) painter and children's book illustrator.
Elizabeth Catlett

8. Social Function
Cindy Sherman

9. Cindy Sherman

11. Spiritual Function Artists create to express spiritual beliefs
Michelangelo Pieta’ Pee-ey-tuh

12. Spiritual/Personal Michelangelo’s David Donatello’s David
Renaissance
Renaissance

14. Physical Function Artists create functional artwork
Native American Pottery
James Sterling
1959 Architecture- England

15. What else could be Physical Function?

17. Educational Function Artist create artwork to impart information
The Vision of the Holy Grail, Morris and Company, (tapestry)

18. Native American - Folk Art

19. What is the Function? Hint: Artwork sometimes has more than one function.

20. Hint: folktale

22. Canopic Jars

23. Jeff Koons
Paul Klee

26. Cy Twombly

28. Romare Bearden Collage Artist