The document discusses the various purposes and functions of art. It explains that art can communicate information, elevate spirits, show beauty or injustice, and be used for worship, personal expression, and influencing social causes. Additionally, the document discusses what creativity is, noting it as the ability to create something new that has value. It also examines untrained artists who work outside of formal art education and traditions.

1. Chapter 1
• The Nature of Art and Creativity

2. What Is Art?
• Work of art-visual expression of an idea or
experience formed with skill through use
of a medium
• Media/medium-type of tools used to create
the artwork
– clay, fiber, stone, wood, paint, video,
photography,
• Some communication can only be
expressed through visual form or music...

3. Purposes and Functions of Art
• Art can:
– tell us things
– elevate our spirits
– show beauty
– show injustice

4. Art for Communicating Information
• Through the ages, art has been used to
impart information

5. Lauren Greenfield. The View North, toward Burj Dubai. 2009.
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6. Dorothea Lange

7. Robert Frank

8. James Nachtwey

9. Art for Day to Day Living
• Objects made to delight the eye as well as
serve useful functions

10. Yves Behar. Mission One. 2009.
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11. Eames

16. Dish. East Iran. 10th Century.
Diameter 8-1/4".
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17. Art for Worship and Ritual
• Through the ages people have used art to
use for prayer, worship, magic, and
ceremony

18. Dance Wand in Honor of Eshu. Elegba Cult. Yoruba, Nigeria.
Height 19-3/4".
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19. Beatrice Wood (1893–1998). Chalice. 1986.
7-5/8" × 7/8".
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20. Stephen Cox. St. Anselm's Altar. 2006.
Height 35".
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21. Art for Personal Expression
• The artist uses their medium to express
their personality and/or feelings to the
viewer

22. Rembrandt van Rijn. Self-Portrait. 1658.
52-5/8" × 40-7/8".
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23. Yong Soon Min. Dwelling. 1994.
72" × 42" × 28".
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24. Romare Bearden. Rocket to the Moon. 1971.
13" × 9-1/4".
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25. Romare Bearden
• “ The biggest thing I learned was reaching
into your consciousness of black
experience and relating it to the universal.”

26. Romare Bearden.
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27. Romare Bearden. Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings. 1967.
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28. Art For Social Causes
• Humans are influenced by what they see
• Artists can use their art to influence the
public

29. Francisco Goya. The Disasters of War, No. 18: Bury Them and Say
Nothing. 1818.
5-7/8" × 8-3/8".
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30. Félix González-Torres. Untitled (Death by Gun). Installation view. 1990.
44-1/2" × 32-1/2".
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31. Félix González-Torres. Untitled (Death by Gun). Single sheet. 1990.
44-1/2" × 32-1/2".
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32. Christian Boltanski

33. Chaz Maviyane-Davies. Global Warning. 1997.
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34. Art for Visual Pleasure
• Art is often identified solely by this
definition
• Art made to be visually attractive and well
crafted

35. Decorative Panel from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain.
Nasrid Period, 14th Century.
60" × 50-5/8".
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36. Miriam Schapiro. Heartland. 1985.
85" × 94".
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37. What is Creativity?
• The ability to bring forth something new
that has value

38. Robin Rhode. He Got Game. 2000.
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39. Untrained Artists
• Outsider artists or folk artists- people with
no formal art education
– folk artists work within a tradition
– outsider artists rarely know about the
trends and history of art
• they work outside of traditional art
guidelines

40. Anna Zemankova. Untitled (M). c. 1970s.
24-1/4" × 17-3/4" (61.6 × 45.1 cm).
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41. Sabatino "Simon" Rodia. Nuestro Pueblo. Watts, Calif. Distant view.
1921–1954. Height 100'.
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42. Sabatino "Simon" Rodia. Nuestro Pueblo. Watts, Calif.
Detail of enclosing wall with construction tool impressions. 1921–1954.
Height 100'.
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43. James Hampton. Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium
General Assembly. c. 1950–1964.
10'6" × 27' × 14'6".
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44. Mola Embroidery