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UNIT IV

ANALYSIS OF READING
VISUAL ARTS
Learning objectives:
At the end of the unit, the students will be able to:
1. Know the different ways of Reading Visual Arts.
2. Analyze artworks; and
3. Apply the concepts of art in reading visual arts
Introduction

What is Reading Visual Arts?

Reading Visual Art deals with the study of art


appreciation, interpretation, and criticism. It
surveys techniques, composition, materials
terminology, and the culture and social influences
of art forms. Designed for the non-art major; this
course provides the foundation for understanding
the visual arts.
CONSTRUCTING
Based on the interviews with visual art
experts, these are the ways on how to
read visual arts:
AUTHOR'S MEANING

This is reading visual arts from the author's perspective

Components include:

. Expert's meaning - This is reading visual arts based on an expert's perspective.

b. Artist's meaning - This is reading visual arts through the lens of an artist and
researching the artist's background. The philosophy, the movement, and the intention
of the artist are the factors that one can consider in reading art.

C. Visual thinking-This includes imagination and creativity by visualizing how the


artist created the work of art, including its elements and principles
d. Critical viewing This is a tool that can be used to read art using questions and
critical thinking to be able to critique a work of art. When one uses his/her
critical thinking skills by formulating questions to judge or analyze an art, he/she
is critically viewing the art. Another way is by not accepting what is, but also
testing the realities and facts of the artwork through creating one's theory of the
art that is being read.
AUDIENCE'S MEANING

This is reading visual arts from the perspective of an audience, viewing a visual artwork.

In reading visual arts using an audience's meaning, the reader can use visual language and
constructive meaning.

a. Visual language - This is a tool that a reader must have. It is reading visual arts through
looking at the artwork's message, code, and symbols.

b. Constructive meaning

This is reading visual arts using one's experience and perspective to interpret and read art.
It is responding to a visual art form as a reader.
COMPOSING
LEVELS OF VISUAL ANALYSIS

The levels of visual analysis" is a guide that will help you analyze visual arts. Visual analysis
helps you understand art through the visual elements, visual structure, formal properties,
content, and meaning

1. Literal description is a process in which relevant data is identified and gathered from a
piece of artwork. Students are encouraged to observe and describe the features of the
artwork carefully. In the process of literal description, students' concentration and focused
observation can be strengthened.
2. Comprehensive feeling is owing to individual differences in experiences, knowledge,
and personal feelings about a piece of artwork shaped by associations and
imaginations. In a broad initial appreciation of a piece of artwork, students are
encouraged to freely express their feelings and opinions toward the artwork to
enhance communication and explore a range of perceptions.
3. Formal analysis is based on the literal description of and comprehensive feeling toward a piece of artwork.

When using formal analysis, the students may:

a examine how the visual elements are combined according to the principles of an organization,

b. examine how compositions achieve certain effects;

C. analyze the image sources and image-development strategies used in the artwork:

d. identify the materials used to create the image and the processes and technologies applied;

e. recognize the signs and/or symbols used; and

f. identify cultural or stylistic aspects represented in the artwork.


4. Interpretation of meanings is drawing from
personal experience and information acquired from
formal analysis and the contextual knowledge about
the artwork such that students can reflect on,
discuss, and interpret the embedded messages of the
artwork in its particular context.
5. Value judgment is drawing on all
of the above wherein students can
make reasonable, effective, and
comprehensive judgments about the
significance and value of the
artwork.
Sample Analysis:

The Old Guitarist (1903) by Pablo Picasso

Author's Meaning The artist of this painting is Pablo Picasso. Picasso


underwent a lot of trials and challenges in his life. Picasso channeled
his frustrations and emotions through his paintings. His paintings were
then called the Blue Period. When Carles Casagemas died, this was
when Picasso started to paint in blue. Hence, his first painting was
titled, The Death of Casagemas, 1901. Picasso chose blue to
communicate his pain. Through this color, Picasso was able to show
his vulnerability.
According to experts, Ravin and Perkins (2004), the painting was made
because the artist blames himself for the death of his friend. Picasso's work
took a dramatic turn when he developed his first distinctive style, the nearly
monochromatic works of the Blue Period. These works are melancholy figures
in blue. Picasso's paintings and engraved works are mostly based on the
themes of blindness. He painted elongated arms, torsos, and heads.

The Old Guitarist also has a ghostly female face that appears under a layer
of paint. It was said that Picasso could not always find the money for a new
canvas, so he used an old canvas and would paint one painting on top of the
other.
In the painting, you would see an old man with broken bones He is holding a guitar,
and his bowing head shows that he has little strength. One can ask questions such
as, why is the man sad? What makes the man sad? Why is the old man blue?

Audience's Meaning Blue signifies sadness and depression Based on the colors,
shapes, and lines of the painting, the message of the painting is sadness and
depression. The painting could be dramatic because of the image and the colors.
The old man signifies a man who is sad and tries to play music to make him happy.
This could be based on the color of the guitar. The guitar is the only object in the
painting that is not blue. Based on the old man's position, he is weak and fragile.
The old man is looking down and is in a position similar to being tired. Looking at
his eyes, the old man could be blind. Based on the old man's clothes, which are torn
and unpresentable, he could be from the lower class.
Based on my experience as an audience, the painting brings feelings of
sadness and depression. Depression is a negative feeling that can make one
lose hope, which is very similar to the painting of Picasso. Music can make
one happy. Thus, the old man tries his best to play music despite his
sadness and grief.

To me, the meaning of the painting is that, as individuals, we should strive


to be happy despite our shortcomings and trials in life.
Thank
you!!

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