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Reasons for Art

Reasons for Art. Wearable Art. Worn for spiritual worship. Subali/Sugriwi – Balinese Mask. Idols to Worship. Objects wish become fetishized. Spiritual Figure / Idol Nkisi Nkonde African Power Figure. To Tell A Story from the Past. The Story Teller 1964 Helen Cordero.

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Reasons for Art

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  1. Reasons for Art

  2. Wearable Art Worn for spiritual worship

  3. Subali/Sugriwi – Balinese Mask

  4. Idols to Worship Objects wish become fetishized

  5. Spiritual Figure / Idol Nkisi Nkonde African Power Figure

  6. To Tell A Story from the Past

  7. The Story Teller 1964 Helen Cordero

  8. To Communicate An Opinion or Point of View Very common today: Post Modernism

  9. Ben Shahn Liberation 1945

  10. Visualize Dreams Surrealists Dada

  11. Salvador Dali The Broken Bridge and The Dream 1945

  12. Document the feeling of a Place Impressionists

  13. Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884-1885

  14. Depict the Beauty of Nature

  15. Georgia O’Keefe Black Iris 1926

  16. Political Commentary Murals Public Art

  17. David Alvaro Siquerios For the Complete Safety of All Mexicans (detail of Mural)

  18. Personal Identity (self-portraits) • Not only images of the person • Self- exploration • Psychological • Cross-over with surrealism

  19. Frida Kahlo The Frame 1938

  20. Illustrate a Story (Myth) Educate the viewer about a particular culture

  21. Marc Chagall Then the Daughter of the Pharoh Opened the Arke and Sawe it was a Childe, From the Story of Exodus 1966

  22. Marc Chagall La Chute d’lcare 1974-1977

  23. Metaphor • “juxtaposition” of two elements to create what is called a “third term” • Also called a “poetic image”

  24. Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream 1899

  25. Environmental Conservation Attention to the environment

  26. Christo & Jeanne-Claude The Umbrellas, Japan & USA 1984-91

  27. Document of an Actual Place Photo realism Photograph

  28. Richard Estes Woolworth’s 1974

  29. Richard Estes Waverly Place 1980

  30. To Depict Everyday life

  31. George Segal Three People on Four Benches 1979

  32. Question Artworld Conventions Usually establish an art historical turning point or “movement”

  33. Marcel DuChamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912

  34. Others Reasons To Make Art?

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