1. Food and Shelter
Reproduction and Sexuality
Exploring Art: A Global Thematic Approach
Ms. Beka

2. FOOD AND SHELTER
Art is used to serve, store and enjoy food,
while structures are built not only to provide
shelter,
but also to enhance and enrich lives through
their aesthetic designs.
 (shelter: protection from bad weather)
 (enhance: improve)
 (aesthetic: concerned with beauty, or
artistic)

3.  Art that Glorifies Food
 (glorifies: admires, gives praise and honor to
FOOD & SHELTER
someone or something)
 Baroque Era
 Pop Art
PREVIEW
 Art and the Act of Eating
 Last Supper

4. REPRODUCTION AND
In addition to food and shelter, human
reproduction and sexuality are basic for
the survival of the human race.
SEXUALITY
In various cultures, art has aided and
pictured human fertility, reproduction
and sexuality, especially with charm-
like figures, phallic symbols, fetishes,
erotic images, and paintings and
sculptures of marriage and children.

5.  Art Depicting Primordial and Human
SEXUALITY PREVIEW
Couples
REPRODUCTION &
 Primordial Couples (primordial: from the
beginning of time, the first)
 Human Couples
 Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 The Feminine Body and the Gaze
 Sexuality, Politics and Consumerism