FUNCTION OF ARTS AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORTANTS OF ART

Function of Arts
The ideal is to be able to infer with some degree of accuracy from a piece of art when
and where it was created. In the best-case scenario, the artist is also identified because
they play a significant role in the context. When you view a work of art, you can ask
yourself, “What was the artist thinking when they made this?” The second part of this
equation is you, the viewer; consider how looking at the same work of art makes you
feel.
Physical, social, and personal are the three categories in which art often serves its
purposes. In any particular work of art, these categories can and frequently do overlap.
1. Personal - The most challenging aspects of explaining art are frequently its
personal purposes. Personal functions can take many different forms and are
quite individualized. It's unlikely that everyone's personal uses of art are the
same.
2. Social - When art addresses aspects of (community) existence as opposed to
one person's point of view or experience, it has a social purpose. Social art
frequently elicits some sort of emotional response from viewers, and they are
occasionally even moved.
3. Physical - The easiest aspects of understanding art are frequently its physical
processes. Physical functions are a part of works of art that serve a purpose.
Even if a Fijian war club is made with exquisite craftsmanship, you might
conclude that it was designed to physically break skulls if you see one.

Philosophical Importance of Art

Art has a deeply communicative purpose, much like philosophy. Through it, people are
able to share their most private, intimate, and profound ideas with one another. The
abundance of cognitive, moral, and social content that both art and philosophy include
is a shared characteristic.
4. Integrity – refers to a thing's fullness, wholeness, or oneness, as well as the fact
that it has the structure and visible components that are appropriate for a thing
with that specific essence or character.
5. Proportion – Proportion is largely about the relationship of the size of one
element when compared to another
6. Radiance - Radiance is defined simply as what “holds the eye.” [1] t is the aspect
of the object that draws viewers into the work and makes them want to continue
to perceive it or perceive it again. Radiance also has to do with light as it creates
the possibility of clarity, which is an essential ingredient to this work.
Art is Mimesis (Plato)
Mimesis, according to Plato and Aristotle, is the representation of nature. All creative
creation, according to Plato, is an imitation of reality; what actually exists (in the “world
of ideas”) is an ideal type that God created; the concrete objects that exist in the world
are only shadowy projections of this type.
Art as Representation (Aristotle)
In the field of aesthetics, Aristotle spoke of art as imitation but not in the Platonic sense.
He wrote: one could imitate things as they ought to be and art partly completes what
nature cannot bring to finish. To him, the artist repeats the form from the matter of some
object of experience such as the human being or a tree and imposes that form on
another matter such as a canvas or marble. This imitation is neither just copying an
original model nor changing a symbol from the original; instead, it is a particular
representation of an aspect of things and each work is an imitation of the universal
whole.
Art for Art’s Sake (Kant)
Art enthusiast or not, this is a phrase many of us in the 21 st Century will be familiar with.
On questions of why we create and value art, “art for art’s sake” argues judgment
should not be made based on how well work serves external purposes, such as moral
or political commentary. Instead, value is intrinsically defined by the aesthetic
impression.
Art as an Escape
Art is an escape, although it’s not a permanent one; rather, it’s a much-needed escape.
Without art, life would be a dreary misery of yearly goals that come true occasionally.
Most of life is spent not getting what we want, and art helps remind us that we can have
what we want, just not all the time.
Art as Functional
Functional art is generally applied art – art created for use, designed to serve a purpose
and with an aesthetic in mind. It’s art that serves a function, but is also designed
artistically for purpose of displaying beauty. Furniture is the most common example of
functional art.
Which is more important, the artist or the artwork?
Anybody can express themselves through art. Therefore, art is an expression
that carries the artist’s emotions. This demonstrates the value of the artist in the field of
the arts.