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This document provides an overview of different approaches to understanding artworks, including semiotic, practical, and contextual approaches. It discusses analyzing artworks based on basic documentation like the title, artist, medium, dimensions, and date. It also describes three planes of analysis: the semiotic plane focusing on visual elements, medium, and physical properties; the iconic plane examining the image itself including subject, figure positioning and style; and the contextual plane situating the work historically and socially. The evaluative plane analyzes the work's values based on standards of excellence.

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Readinf The Image

This document provides an overview of different approaches to understanding artworks, including semiotic, practical, and contextual approaches. It discusses analyzing artworks based on basic documentation like the title, artist, medium, dimensions, and date. It also describes three planes of analysis: the semiotic plane focusing on visual elements, medium, and physical properties; the iconic plane examining the image itself including subject, figure positioning and style; and the contextual plane situating the work historically and socially. The evaluative plane analyzes the work's values based on standards of excellence.

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ARTS APPRECIATION

READING THE IMAGE


INTRODUCTION
Understanding art has to do with "reading" and the visual re-
presentation of the world.

Since art is the vital part of our lives, it is important for us to


understand and know it better.
APPROACHES
• The ability to show the material and ideational aspects that
are closely interlinked and if not fused, in the work of art
• Goes beyond the formalist view & limits itself to the
FORMAL premises of the work.
• advances broader aesthetic
• coordinates society and history in a dynamic relationship
of engagement.

SEMIOTIC APPROACH
APPROACHES

• Going through basic documentary information about the


work
• Information to gather can be from the museum , galleries,
and other exhibit venues in catalogues, brouchers and artist
folios.

PRACTICAL APPROACH
BASIC DOCUMENTATION
OF WORK

1. TITLE OF THE WORK 2. ARTIST'S NAME


Can be significant to the meaning of the work; it This brings biographical date ; to what
has textual element which may or may not genaration does the artist belong? who are his
contribute to its meaning peers? what is his personal bacground and
training?

3. MEDIUM & TECHNIQUES


Helps to indentify wether the art work is a two
dimentional or three-dimentional work.
TWO - DIMENSIONAL
Includes drawings, illustrationsm paintings, prints, posters, flat tapestries and wall
hangings, mosaics, mats , textile paintings (such as batik, glass drawings, or paintings)
THREE - DIMENSIONAL
Includes sculptures in various materials, such as wood, stone, metal, glass or they may
be assemblages of found objects or junk parts.

Installations, folk arts such as clay pottery and baskets combining and functions are also
a three dimentional in form.
BASIC DOCUMENTATION
OF WORK
4. DIMENSIONS / MEASUREMENTS
TWO DIMENSIONAL - can be measured in length and width
THREE DIMANTIONAL - measured in terms of length, width, and volume

The dimensions are now measured in the metric system may be large scale, mural size, big, avarage, small or
minature size.
5. DATE OF WORK
The date, often the year, in which the work is completed situates the work in a period that provides the
histortical context of the work .

6. PROVENANCE
Indicated by the name of the present owner or collector of the art work, it can belong to a museum, gallery or a
part of the private collection.
INTERRELATED ASPECTS IN THE STUDY OF
ART
ART HAS ITS SPECIFITY
• It has its particular language or vocabulary that has to do with media, techniques and
visual elements of art
• It is not just commonly called the formal aspect of art but it is what constitutes art as
a particular human activity different from others

ART IS HISTORICAL
• Situated and shaped by social, economic, and political forces.
BASIC
SEMIOTI
C PLANE
SEMIOTICS
• Used in its basic formulation for the study of "signs"
• The work of art is the iconic or pictorial sign
• A sign consist of a "signifier" / its material or physical
aspect and its "signified" or non material aspect, as
concept and value.
ELEMENTS OF SEMIOTIC
PLANES
01 VISUALL ELEMENTS
Refers to line, value, color, texture, shape, composition in space,
movement - and how they are used.

02 CHOICE OF MEDIUM & TECHNIQUE


Medium enters more and more into the meaning of the work.
Techniques goes hand in hand with the nature of the medium, Likewise, there
are techniques that valorize the values of spontaneity and the play of chance
and accident, while there are others that emphasize order and control.
ELEMENTS OF SEMIOTIC
PLANES
03 FORMAT OF THE WORK
Participates in the meaning. In contemporary art, format is no longer
purely conventional but becomes laden with meaning.

04 OTHER PHYSICAL PROPERTIES &


MARKS OF THE WORK
Notations, traces, textural features, marks (whether random or intentional) are
part of the significations of the work.
THE
ICONIC
PLANE
THE ICONIC PLANE / THE IMAGE
ITSELF
• Still part of the semiotic approach however it is not the material elements of the
artwork that are dealt.
• It has to do with the particular features , aspects , and qualities of the image, which
are the second-level signifiers.
• The image is regarded as "iconic sign" which mean beyond its narrow association
with religious images in the Byzantine style.
ICONIC PLANES INCLUDES
01 CHOICE OF THE SUBJECT
• May bear social and political implications.
• Consideration of the image and its relationship to the viewer.

02 POSITIONING OF THE FIGURE/S


Whether frontal, in profile three-fourth, and so fourth and the significations
that arise from these different presetations.

03 THE STYLE OF FIGURATION


Follows the proportion of 7 and half 8 heads to entire figure in its pursuit of
ideal form, as in formal studio portrait with the subject enhanced by make up,
all imperfections concealed.
THE
CONTEXTUA
L PLANE
THE CONTEXTUAL PLANE
• The knowledge and insights one has gain from these into the social and historical
context of the work art.
• The meaning of the art work is a complex that involves concepts, values, emotions,
attitudes, atmosphere, and sensory experiences that arise from the three planes.
• Situates the work in the personal and social circumstances of its production.
THE WORK MAY CONTAIN;
• Contain allusions to personal or public events,
conditions, stages, as we as influences that have been
particularly meaningful to the artist
• Themes and sub themes may be derived from personal
life experiences significant to the artists
• Particular data may play an important part in
understanding the work and its view of reality.
THE
EVALUATIVE
PLANE
THE EVALUATIVE PLANE

• Has to do with analyzing the values of a work.


• The evaluation of the material basis of the work reckons with standards of excellence
in the use of the medium and its related techniques.

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