Spirituality and Myth/ART 103/Summary

Spirituality and Myth Summary

Thomas Quine, African Mask, 2014

Humans use art to capture the form of ideas about worlds outside of our own. It's often a vehicle for myth or how we understand and explain concepts of a spirit world. Cultures use iconography to symbolize abstract ideas like dreams, love, power, and emotion, and call on the artist to create them. Art has significance in ritual and ceremony.