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PURPOSES OF VISUAL ART WHY PEOPLE CREATE ART 5 specific purposes of art ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

Expresses or communicates: Emotion Ideas feelings 5 specific purposes of art continued CEREMONIAL

Observe ritual Celebration Commemoration 5 specific purposes of art continued Functional Create artistic objects used in everyday life

5 specific purposes of art continued Persuasive Promote ideas or products Advertising Marketing Propaganda ideology

5 specific purposes of art continued Narrative Tell stories Describe or illustrate experiences Communicate ideas or information Document historical events

What purpose of art is this? Saturn was the roman name for Cronus, the god associated in late Greek mythology with time. He swallowed his children after being told that one of them would dethrone him. Only

Zeus, who later did dethrone him, escaped. The painting symbolizes how time ravages and destroys all humans. Unlike Zeus, mere mortals cannot evade his clutches. What purpose of art

was Goya representing? SATURN DEVOURING HIS CHILDREN (1824) by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya. What purpose of art is this? There are two Different

purposes Of Art here. What are they? What purpose of art is this? Is the quilt on the left a different purpose from the

quilt on the right? What purpose of art is this? Name all the different art objects. Are the purposes

different? What purpose of art is this? What was Michelangelo 's purpose for creating the Pieta?