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ART-002-Lesson 2

Art can be defined as creative works that require imagination or technical skill. It includes visual arts like painting, sculpture, photography, as well as performance arts, dance, music, poetry, and theater. Art can be classified based on its functions. Motivated or functional art has a practical purpose, like weaving, architecture, and furniture making. Non-motivated art, also called non-functional art, includes painting, music, and sculpture which do not have a practical use. The common functions of art are personal expression for artists, social influence on behavior and culture, spiritual representation in religious structures, education, political commemoration, and providing physical comfort through tools and containers.

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ART-002-Lesson 2

Art can be defined as creative works that require imagination or technical skill. It includes visual arts like painting, sculpture, photography, as well as performance arts, dance, music, poetry, and theater. Art can be classified based on its functions. Motivated or functional art has a practical purpose, like weaving, architecture, and furniture making. Non-motivated art, also called non-functional art, includes painting, music, and sculpture which do not have a practical use. The common functions of art are personal expression for artists, social influence on behavior and culture, spiritual representation in religious structures, education, political commemoration, and providing physical comfort through tools and containers.

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LESSON 2:

NATURE AND
FUNCTIONS OF ARTS
Subtitle
Nature of art

Art is a creative activity that


expresses imaginative or technical skill. It
produces a product, an object. The
product of art is called a work of art. It
includes drawing, painting, sculpting,
photography, performance art, dance,
music, poetry, prose and theatre.
CLASSIFICATION OF ARTS
ACCORDING TO FUNCTIONS
1. Motivated (Functional)

WEAVING
ARCHITECTURE

FURNITURE-MAKING
Non-motivated (Non-functional)

PAINTING

MUSIC

SCULPTURE
THE COMMON
FUNCTIONS
OF ART
The Common Functions of Art
1. Personal Function
Arts are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their
feelings and ideas.

2. Social Function
(1)It influences social behavior,
(2) It seeks or tends to influence the collective behavior of a
people.
(3) When it addresses aspects of (collective) life as opposed to one
person's point of view or experience.
The Common Functions of Art
3. Spiritual Function
The designs of religious structures tells so many things
about the culture of the faithful.

4. Educational Function
Art comes to be regarded as 'time off for good behavior' or as
'therapy'" and how the ease and carefreeness of the arts are
supposed to bring joy and a sense of calmness."
The Common Functions of Art
5. Political Function
The statues of national heroes that grace our parks and plazas are
commemorative works as are the commissioned paintings of leaders or
rulers. Often they serve to record important historical events, or reveal
the ideals of heroism and leadership that the community would want
the young to emulate.

6. Physical Function
Works of art that are created to perform some service such as tools and
containers are objects which make our lives physically comfortable.
Works of art that are created to perform some service have physical
functions like vases, benches, chairs, etc.
THANK
YOU!!

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