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The Frames
The document outlines four frames for analyzing artworks: subjective, structural, cultural, and postmodern. The subjective frame focuses on personal emotional responses and communication through the senses. The structural frame examines design elements, principles, and artistic mediums. The cultural frame considers the social and historical context of when and where the artwork was created. The postmodern frame looks at how the artwork challenges conventions through appropriation, unconventional materials, and demanding new interpretations from the audience.
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The Frames
- 1. The Frames Subjective, Structural,Cultural & Postmodern
- 2. The SUBJECTIVE FRAME EMOTIONS COMMUNICATION THROUGHTHE FIVE SENSES Sight Sound Smell Taste The Audience You The Artist Touch What? How? Response? Response?
- 3. The STRUCTURAL FRAME Signs& Symbols Principals of DesignElements of Art Expressive Form Colour Line TextureShape Tone Installation Drawing Painting Printmaking Photography Performance Video Sculpture Compositio n Focal Point Balance Harmony Movement Contrast Perspective
- 4. The CULTURAL FRAME When,Where, Why? Social & Cultural Influences Art Movements Social & Cultural Environment of the Artist When was the artwork made? Where was the artwork made? Why was the artwork made? What were the artist’s intentions? What movements were around at the time? Does this artwork challenge or embrace a movement? What was society like at the time? What was happening in the world at the time? Religion Politics Mass Media Gender Economics Ethnic Background Science
- 5. The POSTMODERN FRAME Challenging Appropriation Roleof the Audience How has the artist challenged conventions? Use of unconventional materials? How does the artwork question conventions? Parody? Irony? Humour? Borrowed from other artworks? Does the artist/artwork make demands of the audience? Has the audience been pushed to rethink something? Borrowed from other artists?
- 6. FRAMES SUMMARY This framerelates to the way an artist structures the art elements (tone, colour, shape, perspective, pictorial depth, texture, line etc.,) to create their artwork. It also relates to the signs, symbols and codes that are used by the artist to create visual meaning. When you discuss an artwork using this frame, you describe your personal response to the work. You also consider how other people, such as the artist and the audience feel about the work and what the artist was trying to express when they created the work. This frame considers an artist’s social and cultural environment and the way it affects their artworks. The artist’s social and cultural environment can include religion, politics, ethnic background, gender, science, technology, economics and the mass media. When you use this frame to discuss an artwork, you describe how/if the work questions the accepted long-held beliefs about art and artists. You also consider if the artist has borrowed the work of other artists and whether they have used irony or parody to challenge or mock the status quo.