Question

What are the purposes and functions of art?

Answer 1

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Art
Art functions within human experience in many ways: to express the imagination (Shelley); to purge the emotions through pity and terror (Aristotle) ; to promote the class struggle (Marx); to advance universal brotherhood (Tolstoy); to enhance morality (“the essential function of art is moral,” bluntly says D. H. Lawrence); to criticize life (Matthew Arnold); to help live the good life (Pater, Dewey); to contemplate (Schopenhauer); to bring you “face-to-face with reality” (Bergson); to help you relax (Matisse); and, of course, to serve no function at all, but simply to exist for its own sake. Art can be imitation of nature and language :))