Chapter 4 Deriving Meaning Formal Analysis

Chapter 4 Deriving Meaning • Formal Analysis • Reading the Content • The Influence of Context • Ways we Encounter Art

Formal Analysis

Dorothea Lange and Camera

Formal Analysis Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother & family, Nipomo, California Gelantin Silver print 1936

Formal Analysis Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, California Gelantin Silver print 1936

Formal Analysis Walker Evans Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama Gelatin silver print 1936

Formal Analysis U. S. Capito Building Washington D. C. Begun in 1793

Reading the Content

Reading the Content Subject Matter Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, California Gelantin Silver print 1936

Formal Analysis U. S. Capito Building Washington D. C. Begun in 1793

Formal Analysis Yoruba , Nigeria (Olowe of Ise) Palace Sculpture Wood and pigment 1910 - 14

Style, Form, Content -- Expressionistic Jackson Pollock Male and Female 1942 Oil on canvas

Formal Analysis Jackson Pollock Lucifer Oil, aluminum paint, enamel on canvas 3” 5 x 8’ 9 1947

Reading the Content Iconography - The study of themes and symbols in the visual arts - the figures and images that lend works their underlying meanings. Iconography Jan Van Eyck Giovani Arnolfini and His Bride 1434 Oil on wood

Jan Van Eyck Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride Oil on wood 1434 The National Gallery, London

Formal Analysis Yama Distemper on cloth mid-17 th to early 18 th century + 72” x 46”

Reading the Content Iconography Example of Maori Architectural Interior 1874 Manutuke, New Zealand Maori (meeting house) Te Mana O Turanga Manutuke, New Zealand 1883

Reading the Content Iconography Dame Te Atairangikaahu Queen of the Maori until her death recently New Zealand Her Funeral Procession In August of 2006 New Zealand

Reading the Content Iconography Mike Tyson (with Maori facial tatoo design) USA Maori (facial tatoo designs) New Zealand

Writings About Art (Art Criticism) • Formalist Criticism • Ideological Criticism • Structuralist - Based Criticism • Psychoanalytic Criticism • Feminist Criticism • Writings on Visual Culture • Personal Interpretation (Criticism)

Writing about Art Reading the Content Jacques-Louis David The Oath of Horatii Oil on canvas 1784

Formalist Criticism Jackson Pollock Lucifer Oil, aluminum paint, enamel on canvas 3” 5 x 8’ 9 1947

Reading the Content Ideological Criticism Hans Haacke Metro. Mobiltan Fiberglass, three banners, photomural 1985

Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction Anselm Kiefer On the Rhine Printed images on paper on canvas 1982 - 87 10’ 5 x 12’ 10

Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction Anselm Kiefer Remnants of the Sun Mixed media on canvas 1997

Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction Anselm Kiefer Dein Goldenes Haar, Margarethe Mixed media on paper 1981

Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #35 Gelatin silver print 197910’ x 8”

Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction Cindy Sherman Gelatin silver prints Born 1954

Reading the Content Psychoanalytic Criticism Joan Miro The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers Gouache and oil wash on paper 18” x 15” 1941

Reading the Content Psychoanalytic Criticism The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. - Salvador Dali The Peristence of Memory Oil on canvas 1931 Yves Tanguy Mama, Papa is Wounded Oil on canvas 1927

Influence of Context Feminist Criticism Guerilla Girls Billboard Ingres Grande Odalisque Oil on canvas 1814 c. 1990

Reading the Content Feminist Criticism Guerilla Girls Poster c. 1990

Reading the Content Feminist Criticism Barbara Kruger Untitled (We Don’t Need Another Hero) 1987 Photographic silkscreen, vinyl lettering on Plexiglas

The Influence of Context

The Influence of Context Andy Warhol Green Coca-Cola Bottles Oil on canvas 1962

The Influence of Context Cildo Mirieles Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project Screen print on Coca-Cola bottles 1970

The Influence of Context Shirin Neshat Speechless Pen and ink over gelatin silver print Still from Passage 1996

Ways We Encounter Art

Ways We Encounter Art Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother & family, Nipomo, California Gelantin Silver print 1936

Ways We Encounter Art Alexander Calder Bent Propeller Painted steel 1970 Destroyed on September 11, 2001

Ways We Encounter Art Kwakiutl Interior House Post Northwest Coast Territory, North America Wood

Artist Intent vs. Written Analysis Yellow Calla Oil on canvas Georgia Jack in the Pulpit IV Oil on canvas c. 1925 1926 O’Keefe 1887 - 1986 Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow Oil on canvas 1923

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party 1974 -79 Painted porcelain and needlework Plate Setting of Georgia O’Keefe

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