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
S.P. Avery Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.