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

1. Chapter 4 DerivingMeaning • Formal Analysis • Reading the Content • The Influence of Context • Ways we Encounter Art

2. Formal Analysis

3. Dorothea Lange and Camera

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

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

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

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

8. Reading the Content

9. Reading the Content Subject Matter DorotheaLange Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, California1936 Gelantin Silver print

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

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

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

13. Formal Analysis JacksonPollock Lucifer Oil, aluminum paint, enamel on canvas 1947 3”5 x 8’9

14. Reading the Content Iconography Iconography - The study of the themes and symbols in the visual arts - the figures and images that lend works their underlying meanings. Jan Van Eyck Giovani Arnolfini and His Bride1434 Oil on wood

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

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

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

18. 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

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

20. Writings About Art (Art Criticism) • Formalist Criticism • Ideological Criticism • Structuralist - BasedCriticism • PsychoanalyticCriticism • Feminist Criticism • Writings on Visual Culture • PersonalInterpretation (Criticism)

21. Writing about Art Reading the Content Jacques-LouisDavid The Oath of Horatii Oil on canvas 1784

22. Formalist Criticism JacksonPollock Lucifer Oil, aluminum paint, enamel on canvas 1947 3”5 x 8’9

23. Reading the Content Ideological Criticism HansHaacke MetroMobiltan Fiberglass, three banners, photomural 1985

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

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

26. Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction AnselmKiefer Dein Goldenes Haar, Margarethe Mixed media on paper 1981

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

28. Reading the Content Structuralist-Based Criticism - Deconstruction CindySherman Gelatin silver prints Born 1954

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

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

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

32. Reading the Content Feminist Criticism Guerilla Girls Poster c.1990

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

34. The Influence ofContext

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

36. The Influence of Context CildoMirieles Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project Screen print on Coca-Cola bottles 1970

37. The Influence of Context ShirinNeshat Speechless Pen and ink over gelatin silver print 1996 Still from Passage

38. Ways We Encounter Art

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

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

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

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

43. JudyChicago The Dinner Party1974-79 Painted porcelain and needlework Plate Settingof Georgia O’Keefe

44. Now to Chapter 12