Reason for Making Art

Spiritual
http://theartedge.faso.com/blog/73876/the-spiritual-significance-of-art

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Utilitarian Art
Literally speaking utilitarian art would be art that prioritises function over other values such as formal aesthetics.

Crafts of various kinds could clearly be called utilitarian arts. The Bauhaus School might be a good historical example of this way of thinking.

• • However, the term is incredibly broad and is broken up into numerous sub-categories that lead to utilitarian, decorative, therapeutic, communicative, and intellectual ends.
  • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects, such as a glass or a chair, transforming them from a mere utilitarian object to something aesthetically beautiful.
  • Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art

• Using Art

  • The decorative arts are widely used and utilitarian by their very nature.
  • Typically, their purposes are obvious, and their aesthetic value is often secondary to their utilitarian function.
  • While these art objects often have no specific utilitarian purpose, anthropologists have proven they hold very specific cultural importance.
  • https://www.google.com/search?q=utilitarian+art&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikutj__bTkAhUQbawKHZOBDAMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1195&bih=515
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What is art... what is not art?

Classification Dispute- defining what high art or fine art is or is not...

Digital Extra Credit

Two Point Perspective

Albrecht Durer- It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught (possibly by the mathematician Luca Pacioli) the principles of linear perspective.  Here we have an illustration from a work published in 1535 based on or possibly a reprint of Unterweysung des Messung .

Dürer’s illustration shows apparatus for drawing a classic set-piece, a foreshortened lute. A pointer is attached to a thread running through a pulley on the wall. The thread represents a ray of light passing through the picture plane to the theoretical eye-point denoted by the pulley. As one man fixes key points on the lute, his assistant records the vertical and horizontal co-ordinates of the thread as it passes through the frame, and plots each new point to create a drawing.

One Point Perspective

While still in the early phase of his architectural career (probably c. 1410–15), Brunelleschi rediscovered the principles of linear-perspective construction known to the Greeks and Romans but buried along with many other aspects of ancient civilization during the European Middle Ages.  Brunelleschi had understood the concept of a single vanishing point, toward which all parallel lines drawn on the same plane appear to converge, and the principle of the relationship between distance and the diminution of objects as they appear to recede in space. 

Boxes Drawn in one point perspective.

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