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    LESSON 4 FUNCTIONS OF ART Social Function

    • Art performs a function when:


    Objectives
    • Discuss the functions of arts 1. It seeks or tend to influence the collective behavior
    • Analyze and evaluate the functions of arts of the people.
    • Show examples through video clips the functions of arts
    2. It created to be seen or used primarily in public
    situation.

    3. Provides both serious and humorous reflection


    about and criticisms of society. Through their art,
    artists seeking social changes bring public
    awareness to a variety of social, political, and
    environmental issues.

    4. Collaboration and Community Building: Art can


    bring people together (ex. Rizal’s novel).

    Nature = art as expression and communication


    Classification = visual art – 2D art – caricature

    Personal Function

    • Artists have their personal reasons for indulging in art.

    • Arts are vehicles for the artists’ expression of their


    feelings and ideas. The arts also serve as means of Manila Today
    expression for us.

    o May be used as a means for living, therapy, gift,

    June 9, 2019 Philstar.com

    The Sick Child by Edvard Much

    o Edvard’s mother died when he was very young and


    soon after when he became 14, his sister died. March 23, 2020 Business Mirror

    o He wanted to show the importance of a person’s


    life.
    ✓ Pyramid of Egypt
    ✓ Our Lady of EDSA Shrine
    ✓ Rizal Monument

    L’eau de Bleach by Bambi Ramsy – Washington Post –


    Digital Arts (Procreate App)

    Cultural Function

    • An art that forms a part of a country’s material culture.

    • Material Culture-tangible; Non-Material Culture-


    Distancing Bench by Kimberly A. Kelser – Washington Post Intangible
    – Dyed Black firewood, tape measure, cinder blocks
    ✓ Ifugao’s Ulog House
    Social Function of Arts
    ✓ Tausug’s/Badjao’s Bahay Tiyakad
    1. Influencing social behavior

    2. Display and Celebration

    3. Social Description

    Religious Function

    Goya’s Disaster of War • All art forms evolved from religion

    o An art in protest against man’s inhumanity to man. ✓ Images of Gods and Goddesses
    ✓ Painting and Sculptures
    ✓ Churches and Mosque
    ✓ Images of Saints

    Historical Function

    • Paintings, sculptures, architectural works and other art


    forms serve to record historical figures and events

    ✓ Taj Mahal-India
    Physical Function

    • Houses and other buildings are constructed to protect


    their occupants and all the other inside them

    • Paintings serve to protect walls and ceilings

    • Sculpture serve as columns of some buildings

    • Dance form of exercise (Zumba)

    • Music is a form of therapy (Mozart Effect)

    Aesthetic Function

    • Artworks serve to beautify

    • Paintings serve to decorate houses and other buildings

    • Sculpture to decorate churches

    • Props and costumes in dramas and stage plays

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