Art Chapter 2 09 09 2012 Words and Images Rene Magritte painted The Treason of Images o Print translates to say this is not a pipe Scared texts are almost always decorated with designs that aim to be visually compelling but not representational o Iconoclasts image breakers Describing the World Representational o Work of art that portrays natural objects in recognizable form o Realism more real life o Abstraction less that real world o Sublime if it captured a immensity large that it could hardly be comprehended by imagination o Naturalism is a brand of representation in which the artist retians apparently realistic elements The Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt o More abstract realism is represented by Sesshu Toyo s Haboku Landscape for Soen Abstract Nonrepresentational Meaning in Nonrepresentational Art Nonobjective or nonrepresentational works of art do not refer to the natural or objective world at all Form is the overall structure of a work of art Content which is what the work of art expresses or means Malevich s painting is really about the relation between the black rectangle the blue triangle and the white ground behind them o Iconography Cultural conventions are often carried forward from one generation to the next by the means of iconography a system of visual images the meaning of which is widely understood by a given culture of cultural group Symbols are visual images that represent something more than their literal meaning o Giovanni Arnolfini and His wife Giovanna Cenami painted by Jan Van Eyck Its repertoire of visual images was well understood but today much of its meaning is lost to he average viewer This painting includes many different symbolisms Class Notes 09 09 2012 Chapter 2 Developing Visual Literacy Literacy refers to the ability to read for knowledge and write coherently and think critically about the written word Visual literacy includes in addition the ability to understand all forms of communication body language pictures maps or video Visual literacy the ability to comprehend and discuss visual images Descriptive vocabulary Historical and social context Interpretation Visual art can be powerfully persuasive Relationship between WORDS IMAGES OBJECTS and the idea of representation Rene Magritte 1929 The Treason of Imagies Verbal Visual Lorna Simpson 1992 She Visual meets the verbal Faceless without identity personality and idivuality The Park 1995 works in progress Shirin Neshat Discourse of Gender Rebellion Symbol of Freedom in Iranian culture Chador Stereotyping misreading misunderstanding Iranian poet Saffarzadeh Chador Iran Pictorial Essays Rebellious Silence Women of Allah Words and images often result I misreading misunderstanding Calligraphy Fine art of hand writing Distress of Images The page of poetry depends for its power on its visual presence and beauty as much as it does on the power of the words and what it actually says A work of art is said to be Representational or realistic if the subject matter is recognizable o Ex Pat by John Aheam and Rigoberto Torres 1982 o Ex Albert Bierstadt 1863 The Rocky Mountains o Ex Albert Bierstadt The Matterhorn Abstract if the subject matter is recognizable but abstracted or educed to essential qualities which are then isolated exaggerated or distorted Non representational or Non objective if there is no recognizable subject matter Cezanne is the father of modern painting Takes a landscape and breaks up the landscape into geometric color blocks Jackson Pollock Piet Mondrian Series of abstraction of a tree The Grey Tree Reduces the work to a few lines and colors 09 09 2012