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Deriving Meaning The Ways In Which We Critique Art

Deriving Meaning The Ways In Which We Critique Art. 4.1 Deriving Meaning. Formal Analysis Content: subject matter and iconography

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Deriving Meaning The Ways In Which We Critique Art

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  1. Deriving Meaning The Ways In Which We Critique Art

  2. 4.1 Deriving Meaning • Formal Analysis • Content: subject matter and iconography • Criticism/writing about art: formalist criticism, ideological criticism, structuralist-based criticism, psychoanalyst and feminist criticism, writings on visual culture and personal interpretation • Art in Context • Ways we encounter art

  3. 4.2 Formal Analysis • An integrated study of all the formal qualities of an artwork • Formal qualities contribute to meaning.

  4. 4.3 Content • Content is an artwork’s theme or message • Subject matter is what is seen by observation • Iconography is the symbolism or ‘hidden’ meaning behind what is seen • Mandala of Samvara (Kharamukha Cakrasamvara Mandala). • Te Mana O Taranga

  5. 4.4 Writings about Art • Critics write about, interpret and evaluate works of art in various ways, each way adding specific meaning or ideas about content. • Some of these ways are: formalist criticism, ideological criticism, structuralist based criticism, psychoanalyst and feminist criticism, writings on visual culture and personal interpretation.

  6. Ideological Criticism • Rooted in writings of Karl Marx • All art supports particular political agenda, cultural structure, or economic/class hierarchy • How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art by Serge Guilbaut • Hans Haacke’s MetroMobilitan

  7. Structuralist-Based Criticism • Structuralism & Semiotics • Social and cultural structures influence the meaning of art • As study of language, Structuralism was called Semiotics • The study of signs in verbal or written communication • Late 20th Century Semiotics came to be applied to all forms of communication, including art • Deconstruction • Seeks to undermine or reveal myths, clichés, and stereotypes embedded in Western systems of signs. • Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #35

  8. Psychoanalytic & Feminist Criticism • Psychoanalytic criticism is most appropriate when applied to works dealing with strong emotional content, dream imagery, or fantasy • Surrealism • Assigns meaning to imagery • Feminist Criticism • Representation of gender in art • Can support male-dominated social structures • Borrows from structuralism, deconstruction, and psychoanalytic approaches to criticism • The Guerilla Girls use artwork as feminist criticism

  9. 4.6 Ways We Encounter Art • Print and photographic media • Reproductions • Museums and galleries • Original religious, historical and social environment • Community and cultural ritual, as well as tourism • Consider: mimetic and performative art

  10. Discussion Topics • Why does understanding the context of a work of art add to our understanding of it? • In what ways does the written word add to the public’s experience of art? • Why does adding others ideas to our own opinions increase our appreciation of art?

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