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Figure 1.3 Chauvet cave, Lion panel, c. 25,000-17,000 B.C.E.

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Figure 1.4 Stonehenge, c. 2000-1500 B.C.E., Salisbury Plain, England; concentric circles of megaliths

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Figure 1.5 Stemmed Vessel, c. 2000 B.C.E.

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Figure 1.6 Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982

What Do Artists Do?

Create places for some human purpose

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Cologne Cathedral, Germany, begun 1248. Bildagentur Huber/Friedmar Damm

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Figure 1.7 Kente cloth, Ghana, mid-20th century.

What Do Artists Do?

Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects

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Figure 1.5 Stemmed Vessel, c. 2000 B.C.E.

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Figure 1.8 Manohar, Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau, 1605-06.

What Do Artists Do?

Record and commemorate

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Figure 4.8 and 4.9 Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19.

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Figure 1.9 Shiva Nataraja, anonymous, India, 10th century C.E.

What Do Artists Do?

Give tangible form to the unknown

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Figure 4.12 Bill Reid, The Raven and the First Men, completed 1983.

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Figure 1.10 Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889.

What Do Artists Do?

Give tangible form to feeling

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Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940. Oil on canvas

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Figure 1.11 Ernst Haas, Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto, 1981, 1981.

What Do Artists Do?Refresh our vision and

see the world in new ways

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Figure 6.4 Leonardo daVinci, Star of Bethlehem and Other Plants, 1506-08.

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• Create places for some human purpose

• To create extra-ordinary versions of ordinary objects

• To record and commemorate

• To give tangible form to the unknown

• To give tangible form to feelings and ideas

• To refresh our vision and see the world in a new way

What Do Artists Do?

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Looking and Responding

Vanitas: a meditation on the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

Figure 1.14 Juan de Valdés Leal, Vanitas, 1660.

Figure 1.15 Audrey Flack, Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas), 1977-78.

Jackson Pollock,Shimmering Substance (Sounds in the Grass series)1946, oil on canvas, 30 x 24“