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Personal Function of ArtMost difficult to explain in any great detailVary from person-to-personAn artist may create out of a need forself-expression, orgratification. S/he might have wanted tocommunicatea thought or point to the viewer. Perhaps the artist was trying to provide anaesthetic experience, both for self and viewers. A piece might have been meant to "merely"entertainothers. Sometimes a piece isn't meant to haveany meaning at all.EXAMPLE

most monumental painting of social protest in our time is Picasso's Guernica.

Advertising art is a common illustration. Detail from: "100 Cans" by Andy WarholBACK

muga contextual-face tree bruxelles in Belgium

Students used a photograph of themselves to complete a linear drawing before creating a background based on their contextual studies.BACK

Physical

Physical Function of ArtMost easily dealt withWorks of art that are created to perform services EXAMPLESusually relates to items that can be used for a practical purpose because of their physical structure

Works of arts are significant players in the evolution of culture, since they contribute both to cultural continuity, and through innovations in forms and techniques, to cultural change.

Socio-Cultural Functions of ArtGiving form to basic generative notions the ethos of a culture.Gives form to fundamental beliefs and feelings, it serves as conduits for culture; in effect, culture carrier.Art forms are essential to engaging in rituals that serves as the ingredient required to nurture and sustain any society.A life without art or a society would not only be drab, it would be unthinkable. It appears that humans instinctively seek to enhance and beautify their lives.

How does art fulfill Personal and Psychological needs?

Creating art is a vehicle for making inner thoughts and feelings visible and more objective.-ArtistThe aesthetics of everyday life need not hinge on a specific experience of art. And added health, which is in the art world isnt an art object, is construed aesthetically in form of living metaphors.-Robert Desjarlais in his book The Auestheticss of Illness & Healing in the Nepal HimalayasEXAMPLE

In art of dressing, people have seen Rustom Padilla cross-dressed. Many critics stressed the point that such gesture is an expected way of releasing his long suppressed identity crisis.

Art engages not just intellectual approach to moments of pain or comfort, but personal, psychological, emotional and moral stance. As we present ourselves in society, we embody and embed through fashion, taste, gesture, mode of violence, expression of joy and so on the world.