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
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