TYPE OF PUBLIC ART

• Memorials:  Commemorates or honors events or people
• Relates Story:   Tells us about the history of a place and its people
• City Landmark:   City becomes identified with the representation of an artwork
• Personal or Social Expression:   Art that makes social, cultural, and historical statements
• Commercial Purposes:   Serves a commercial purpose, like a sign for a business, adds vitality, texture and interest to urban landscape.

QUALITIES OR TYPES OF PUBLIC ART

• Representational (Realistic):   Depicts, portrays events, objects or people in a realistic manner.  You know exactly what you are looking at.
• Abstract:   Rather than depicting a realistic specific object or event, abstract arts uses line, color, form, and materials to make an artwork.
• Aesthetic:   Expresses artist's sense of the beautiful and appeals to people's appreciation of the visually pleasing.  The intent is not to be useful or instructive, but to create an effect that arises solely from formal relations.
• Didactic:   Instructs or enlightens.  In a public context didactic works might inform, scold, preach, warn, or educate.
• Functional:   Art may serve a useful purpose besides the aesthetic, entertainment, or contemplative value such as a bench, door handle or fence.
• Symbolic:   Something that stands for, represents, or suggest another thing such as an eagle representing patriotism.
• Artists on Design Team:   Artist is involved in conception of sit, art may not be separate from site.

ARTWORKS' RELATION TO SITE

• Artwork whose artistic intention is not related to the specifics of a particular site.
• Artwork designed for a particular site whose artistic intent could be moved to another site in similar conditions.
• An artwork whose artistic intent is inseparable from the particularities of a unique site.