Utilitarian

Examples of Utilitarian in the following topics:

• What Does Art Do?

  • However, the term is incredibly broad and is broken up into numerous sub-categories that lead to utilitarian, decorative, therapeutic, communicative, and intellectual ends.
  • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects, such as a glass or a chair, transforming them from a mere utilitarian object to something aesthetically beautiful.
  • Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art

• Using Art

  • The decorative arts are widely used and utilitarian by their very nature.
  • Typically, their purposes are obvious, and their aesthetic value is often secondary to their utilitarian function.
  • While these art objects often have no specific utilitarian purpose, anthropologists have proven they hold very specific cultural importance.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • During Neolithic times, the key known sources of nephrite jade in China for utilitarian and ceremonial items were the now depleted deposits in the Ningshao area in the Yangtze River Delta (during the Liangzhu culture, 3400–2250 BCE) and in an area of the Liaoning province in Inner Mongolia (during the Hongshan culture, 4700–2200 BCE).
  • Jade was used to create many utilitarian and ceremonial objects, ranging from indoor decorative items to jade burial suits, reflecting the ancient Chinese belief that jades would confer immortality or prolong life and prevent decay.

• Inuit Art

  • Thule art had a definite Alaskan influence and included utilitarian objects such as combs, buttons, needle cases, cooking pots, ornate spears, and harpoons.
  • They were simply meant to make utilitarian objects look appealing.
  • Non-utilitarian objects were also carved in miniature so that they could be carried or worn, such as dance masks, amulets, fetish figures, and intricate combs and figures which were used to tell legends and objectify their mythology and oral history.

• The Role of the Artist

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• Cistercian Architecture

  • This new Cistercian architecture embodied the ideals of the order, and in theory it was utilitarian and without superfluous ornament.
  • The "architecture of light" of Acey Abbey represents the pure style of Cistercian architecture, intended for the utilitarian purposes of liturgical celebration.A

• Academic Architecture

  • Though the Beaux-Arts style embodies an approach to a regenerated spirit within the grand traditions rather than a set of motifs, principal characteristics of Beaux-Arts architecture included: rusticated and raised first stories, a hierarchy of spaces (from "noble spaces"—grand entrances and staircases— to utilitarian ones) arched windows, arched and pedimented doors, classical details, references to a synthesis of historicist styles, and tendency to eclecticism.

• Metalwork of the Inca

  • Drawing much of their inspiration and style in metalworking from Chimú art, the Incas used metals for utilitarian purposes as well as ornaments and decorations.

• The Southwest

  • For hundreds of years, the Anasazi created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, as well as orange or red ceramics.

• Mycenaean Ceramics

  • There are a few different classes of pottery, generally separated into two main sections: utilitarian and elite.
  • Utilitarian pottery is sometimes decorated, made for functional domestic use, and constitutes the bulk of the pottery made.