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• PERSONAL

  •Provides comfort and convenience to human beings

  •Artist tries to express his  / her personal feelings through the artwork

  Arts are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their  feelings and ideas. The arts also serve as means of  expression for us
• SOCIAL

  •Art is used for public display and celebration•Bridges connection among people

  •Conveys a sense of family, community, or civilization
• PHYSICAL

  •The Physical function of Art can be the easiest to spot and understand•Can be found in artworks that are crafted in order to serve some physical purpose
• ART AS A REPRESENTATION

  According to Aristotle, the aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things but their inward significance
• ART AS AN IMITATION /MIMESIS

  •According to Plato, art is an imitation of the real that was an imitation of the ideal
• ART AS AN DISINTERESTED JUDGMENT/ FOR ART’S SAKE

  •According to Kant, art has its own reason for being.

  •Implies that an art object is best understood as autonomous creation to be valued only for its success as it organizes color and line into a formally satisfying and beautiful whole.
• ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTIONS/ AS AN ESCAPE

  •The ceremony of doing and creating art touches the deepest realms of the mind and the sacred dimension of the artistic creative process.•The sacred level of art not only transforms something into art, but also transforms the artist at the very core of his /her own being.