Functions of Art and Philosophy

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Is the kind of art form that the population is most likely more exposed to, but its variations are so diverse they range from sculptures that you see in art galleries to the last movie you saw.

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visual arts

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visual arts include

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paintings
drawings
lettering
printing
sculptures
digital imaging

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refers to the art of putting together successions of still images in order to create an illusion of movement

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Film

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is a live art and the artist’s medium is mainly the human body which he or she uses to perform

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Performance Art

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is an art form where the artist expresses his emotions not by using paint, charcoal, or camera, but expresses them through words.

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Poetry Performance

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is the art of designing and constructing buildings and other types of structures.

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Architecture

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mother of the arts

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Architecture

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is series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment.

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Dance

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generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social spiritual or performance setting

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Dance

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is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer

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Choreography

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goes beyond the usual professional, academic, journalistic, and other technical form of writing.

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Literary Art

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uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience.

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Theater

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incorporate elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetically value.

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Applied Arts

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art can be and is used as therapy for individuals with a variety of illnesses, both physical and mental.

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As a Therapy

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A product of a particular time and place, an artwork represents the ideas and technology of that specific time and place.

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Art as Artifact

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are varied and highly subjective. This means that its function depend on the person- the artist who created the art.

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Personal Function of Art

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is considered to have a social function if and when it addresses a particular collective interest as opposed to a personal interest.

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Social Function of Art

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is a very common example of an art with a social function. Art may convey message of protest, contestation, or whatever message the artist intends his work to carry.

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Political Art

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can be found in artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical purpose.

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Physical Function of Art

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Other Functions of Art

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Art as a Representation
Art as a Disinterested Judgment
Art as a Communication of Emotion

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refers to the visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork.

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Subject

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is the meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork.

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Content

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these types of art have subject that refer to object or events occurring in the real world. Often, it is also termed figurative art, because as the name suggest, the figures depicted are easy to makes out and decipher.

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Representational Art

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this art does not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place, thing, or even a particular event. It is stripped down to visual elements such as shapes, lines, emotion, and even concept.

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Non-Representational Art

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Jackson Pollock, detail of “Number 1A”

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Non-Representational Art

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Mona Lisa

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Representational Art

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Vincent van Gogh “Die Ebene von Auvers

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Nature

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Battle of Waterloo

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History

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“Discobolus” – Greek original by the sculptor Myron of 450-440 BC

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Greek and Roman Mythology

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pertains to the most rudimentary level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another.

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Factual

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meaning, on the other hand, pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, symbols and other cyphers as bases of its meaning.

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Conventional

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are consulted, a variety of meaning may arise when a particular work of art is read.

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Subjectivities