Analysis of Reading Visual Arts

1. GROUP 4
Analysis of
Reading Visual
Arts – UNIT IV

2. Apply the
concepts of art in
reading visual
arts.
Know the different
ways of reading
visual arts
Analyze artwork
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

3. Jean Honoré Fragonard
Expert’s Meaning
This is reading visual
arts based on an
expert’s perspective
Artist’s Meaning
This is reading visual arts
through the lens of an
artist and the artist’s
background.
Visual Thinking
Imagination and creativity by
visualizing how the artist
created the work of art,
including elements and
concepts
Critical View
Tool that can be used
to read art using
questions and critical
thinking to be able to
critique a work of art
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WAYS TO RVA: AUTHOR’S
MEANING

4. Visual
Language
Constructive
Meaning
Reading visual arts
using one’s expperience
and perspective to
interpret and read art. It
is responding to a visual
art form as a reader.
Reading visual arts
through looking at the
artwork’s message,
code and symbols.
François Boucher
Audiencce’s Meaning

5. LEVELS OF
VISUAL ANALYSIS

6. Is a process in which relevant data is
idntified and gathered from the piece of
art. Students are encouraged to observe
and describe the features of an artwork.
In the process of literal description,
student’ s concentration and focused
observation can be strenghtened.
LITERAL
DESCRIPTION

7. Comprehensive
Feeling
Is owing to individual differences in
experiences, knowlede, and personal
feelings about a piece of artwork shaped by
associations and imaginations. In a broad
initial appreciation of a piece of artwork,
students are encouraged to freely express
their feelings and opinions towards the
artwork to enhance communication and
explore a range of perceptions.

8. Based on the literal description of and
comprehensive feeling toward a piece of artwork.
When using formal analysis, the students may;
1. Examine how the visual elements are combined
according to the principles of organization.
2. Examine how compositions achieve certain
effects
3. Analyze the image sources and image-
developments strategies used in the artwork.
4. Identify the materials used to create the image
and the processes and technologies applied.
5. Recognize the signs and/or symbols used
6. Identify cultural or stylistic aspects represented
in the artwork.
Formal Analysis

9. Interpretation
of Image
Drawing from personal
experience and information
acquired from formal analysis
and the contextual knowledge
about the artwork such that
students can reflect on,
discuss and interpret the
embedded messages of the
artwok in this particular
context.
Nicolas Lancret

10. Sources and bibliography
Value
Judgement
Drawing on all of the above
wherein students can make
reasonable, effective and
comprehensive judgements about
the significance and value of the
artwork.

11. Who made it?
When was it made? Where was it made?
Was it made for
someone else?
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Questions for Interpreting Art

12. What technologies
does the production
depend on?
What were the social
identities of the maker,
the owner and the
subject of the image?
What were the relations
between the maker, the
owner and the subject?
Does the form of the
image reconstiute
those identities and
relations?
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Questions for Interpreting Art

13. Is it one of the series? What is the vantage
poit of the image?
What is being shown?
What are the
components of the
image? How are they
arranged?
Where is the viewer’s
eye drawn to in the
image, and why?
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Questions for Interpreting Art

14. What color
was used?
What is/are the genre/s of the
image? Is it documentary,
soap opera, or melodrama,
for example?
What relations are established
between the components of the
image visually? How has the
technology
afftected the text?
Questions for Interpreting Art

15. Does the iage
comment critically
on the genre?
What knowledge is
being deployed?
Is this a
contradictory
image?
What do the
different
component of the
iage signify?
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Questions for Interpreting Art

16. Mars is actually a very
cold place
Neptune is very far
from the Sun
Location
Other data
Title
Mercury is the
smallest planet
Author
Venus is the second
planet from the Sun
Chronology
Jupiter is the biggest
planet of them all
Conditions
Saturn is composed of
hydrogen
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Steps to identificate a work of art

17. This bent and sightless man holds close to him a
large, round guitar. Its brown body represents the
painting's only shift in color. Both physically and
symbolically, the instrument fills the space around
the solitary figure, who seems oblivious to his
blindness and poverty as he plays. At the time the
painting was made, literature of the Symbolist
movement included blind characters who
possessed powers of inner vision. The thin,
skeleton-like figure of the blind musician also has
roots in art from Picasso's native country, Spain.
The old man's elongated limbs and cramped,
angular posture recall the figures of the great
16th-century artist El Greco.
The Old Guitarist – Pablo
Picasso
Author’s Meaning
The Old Guitarist – Pablo Picasso

18. During the Blue Period, Picasso painted
The Old Guitarist. This painting shows
an old, weak and poor man clinging to a
guitar. The guitar is the only color in the
painting, highlighting the man's only
hope of survival. Like Picasso, the old
man relies on the arts for his living, but
he is living in poverty and despair.
The Old Guitarist – Pablo
Picasso
Audience’s Meaning
The Old Guitarist – Pablo Picasso

19. Author’s
Meaning
The Starry Night meaning can be derived
from the large cypress tree: a symbol of
graveyards, mourning, and death. The
stars are symbols of dreaming, heaven,
and death. The church, mysteriously dark
in this painting, is a symbol of his
religious upbringing, as the spire is Dutch
and not French in design.
Starry Starry Night – Vincent van Gogh

20. Audience’s
Meaning
There are various
interpretations of Starry Night
and one is that this canvas
depicts hope. It seems that
van Gogh was showing that
even with a dark night such
as this it is still possible to see
light in the windows of the
houses. Furthermore, with
shining stars filling the sky,
there is always light to guide
you.
Starry Starry Night – Vincent van
Gogh

21. Author’s
Meaning
A woman walks to the
Sambre River for the last
time. Soon after, Magritte's
mother will be found dead by
suicide, her face covered by
her white gown. René was
only 13. It is thought that that
memory came back to life
when Magritte painted the
Lovers with their faces
covered by white cloth.
The Lovers – Rene Margaritte

22. Audience’s
Meaning
Here, a barrier of fabric
prevents the intimate
embrace between two lovers,
transforming an act of
passion into one of isolation
and frustration. Some have
interpreted this work as a
depiction of the inability to
fully unveil the true nature of
even our most intimate
companions.
The Lovers – Rene Margaritte

23. Reading visual arts makes us reflect the
world and the time we live in. It brings out
our creativity. It can also help us understand
history, culture and lives. The ability to read
visual arts opens self-exploration and self-
expression.
SUMMARY

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GROUP 4
• Ace Vergel Villamor
• Kirstein Stacey Peligro
• Kathyrine Borja
• Jo-ann Ruaya
• Juleth Avenilla
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