Art

• Individual function


  The artists perform arts because of their passion of their respective art forms
• Social function


  Man associates with others through his art performance that arouses social consciousness. This association is demonstrated by the choral singing, group dancing, public art exhibits and other practices.
• Political function


  Art provides a forum of ideas that will lead to employment, prestige, status, and power.
• Historical function


  Arts serve to record historical figure and events.
• Cultural function


  Art is expression, not of mere things or ideas, but of concrete experience with its values, and for its own sake. Its value is in the sympathetic mastery and preservation of life in the mind.
• Physical function


  Buildings are artistically designed and constructed to protect their occupants and make their life inside more meaningful.
• Aesthetic function


  Any artwork means beauty. Art is an image of the good, and has value in so far as through expression it enables us to experience edifying emotions or to contemplate noble objects.
• Purposes of art


  • Create beauty
  • Provide decoration
  • Reveal truth
  • Immortalize
  • Express values
  • Commemorate experience
  • Create harmony
• Create beauty


  • Artist has considered nature as the standard of beauty
• Provide decoration


  • Works of art have been used to create pleasing environment
• Reveal truth


  • Artist have pursued truth and attempted to reveal about how the world looks
• Immortalize


  • An artist can defy mortality by creating a work that will keep his talents in the people's consciousness
• Express values


  • Art has been used to express hopes to symbolize great religious event
• Commemorate experience


  • Art serves to convey the personal experiences of an artist and record his impression in his work
• Create harmony


  • An artist makes use of composition to put order in the diverse content of his work