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You should be able to:
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| 1. Talk about the impulse to create art in human beings and support it with examples. |
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| 2. Understand the rudimentary reasons for studying art and art history. |
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| 3. Explore the nature, meaning, and importance of "creativity." |
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| 4. Name the conditions under which art flourishes or declines in a civilization. |
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| 5. Understand the reasons why artists create works. |
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| 6. Discuss the qualifications for how someone can be considered an artist. |
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| 7. Discuss the functions that works of art in your local environment fulfill. |
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| 8. Explain how artists sometimes help to make history, as well as sometimes recording it. |
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| 9. Understand what factors make a painting valuable in different ways to different people. |