Due Sunday October 19, 2008

ART PROJECT

Title: The Purposes of Art

Instructions: In order to learn even more about the purposes of art in a different way try this studio art project. Art is around us everyday--one of the purposes of taking this class is to learn to see art and appreciate it in our daily lives. For the next few days become aware of everything you see and try to figure out if the images you see are art. What purposes do they serve? Cut out pictures from magazines, newspapers and even print out some images you may find on the web and make a poster that you can then title "What Is Art?". This kind of activity is called a grounding exercise and it will help you learn and remember the content of this chapter. Again, it is helpful to do something working with the visual when you are studying art.

Remember the purposes for art you should include in your poster will be all of the following:

Art creates beauty

Art reveals truth

Art exposes fantasy

Art creates order and harmony

Art expresses chaos

Art records and commemorates experience

Art reflects social and cultural context

Art protests injustice and raises social consciousness

Art enhances our environment

Art immortalizes

Art expresses religious beliefs

Art stimulates the intellect

Art fires the emotion

Art elevates the commonplace

Grade Rubric is as follows:

100 points possible

Oral presentation: _____________ (out of 10) Grounding experience __________________(@5 pts ea. Total of

70) Creativity of Poster________________(out of 20) Overall presentation total_______________

Comments:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Grade: ____________________