2.3 Discuss how form, as opposed to content, might also help us to understand the meaning of a work of art.
Form is the overall structure of an artwork. It includes such aspects as the artwork’s materials and the organization of its parts into a composition. What role does form typically play in nonobjective art? How does form differ from content? How do Kazimir Malevich and Beatriz Milhazes use form in their works?
2.4 Explain how cultural conventions can inform our interpretation of works of art.
Cultural conventions are often carried from one generation to the next through iconography. Iconography is a system of images, whose meaning is understood by a certain cultural group. The images used in iconography represent concepts or beliefs beyond literal subject matter. What cultural conventions used in Jan van Eyck’s
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
have we apparently forgotten? How does Jean-Michel Basquiat’s
Charles the First
represent a personal iconography?
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