What is the function of the arts?

Answer 1

There is no one right answer to this question. Art has several functions, and which function it serves depends on the context in which it is used. Art can for example have the function to:

- promote a philosophical idea

- entertain

- educate

- help clarify a message (like when art is used to accompany a text)

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

An excerpt and the site:

The function of all art lies in fact in breaking through the narrow and tortuous enclosure of the finite, in which man is immerged while living here below, and in providing a window to the infinite for his hungry soul.

* http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12ART.HTM
Art has two primary functions. First, it exists to relieve the compulsion of the artists who are driven to create it. And second, art exists to enhance and to give expression and meaning to the lives of its audience.

Answer 3

function-

# The action for which a person or thing is particularly fitted or employed. # ## Assigned duty or activity.

Art-

# Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. # ## The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. ## The study of these activities. ## The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.
In its purest form art has no function, it is simply art. However, most art does serve a number of functions as follows: * Art represents the aspirations of the artists who create it. * Art stimulates the human senses either towards or away from satisfaction. * Art provides a forum of ideas with which to interact. * Art is a source of employment and income. * Art portrays and records historical events theoretically thereby enriching society

Answer 4

Art has several functions:

• to evoke emotion in the observer
• to cause the observer to think
• to satisfy the desire for beauty