What is art? It's many things to many people and organizations. This PowerPoint explores the many things that art can do.

1. Art can…
Piet Mondrian Composition with Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red 1922 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
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2. Odilon Redon Eye-Balloon 1878 charcoal on paper The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Take us to other worlds

3. Please the eye
Odilon Redon Flowers c. 1903 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

4. Express ideas
Raphael The School of Athens 1510-11 Fresco Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome

5. Show us how we treat each other
Goya The Shootings of May Third 1808 1814 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid

6. Picture
ourselves
Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas 1939 oil on canvas Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

7. Picture others
Diego Velazquez Innocent X c.1650 oil on canvas Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome

8. Speak of madness
Edvard Munch The Scream 1893 pastel The Munch Museum, Oslo

9. Show us the world
Vincent Van Gogh The Harvest 1888, June oil on canvas Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam

10. Show us the sea
Canaletto Venice: the Upper Reaches of the Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo c.1738 (detail)

11. Stop time
William Bailey Still Life with Eggs, Bowl and Vase1971 oil on canvas Private collection, Bedford, New York

12. Use color
Mark Rothko Earth and Green 1955 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

13. Be
environmental
Tame Buzzard Line 2001Flint , MI

14. Suggest a season
Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) 1950

15. Look at
how
life changes
Norman Rockwell New Television oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art

16. Help us
think
about God
Fra Angelico Annunciation 1439-1443 Fresco Cell 3, Convent of San Marco, Florence

17. See the usual
in unusual ways
Rene Magritte Time Transfixed 1938 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

18. And even make us wonder about painting itself
Rene Magritte The Treachery of Images 1928-29 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of
Art