1. Some Relevant Questions About Artistic Intent

2. Ask Not “Is It Art?” Ask “Did An Artist Make It?”

4. Can we know an artist’s intent ever?
Always?

5. Do some artists work intuitively
Do some artists work intuitively. drawing on the subconscious, and even block specific intent?

6. Is an artist’s intent, when available, always relevant to the meaning of an artwork?

7. Can an artist express one thing, but then express more than that, or something different from that?

8. Should an artist’s stated intent be the final arbiter when determining the accuracy of an interpretation?

9. What do you think this artist is for or against?

10. What political, religious, or racial views does the artwork seem to uphold?

11. What would this artwork have you believe about the world?

12. Does the artwork represent a male or female point of view?

13. What does the artwork assume about the viewer?

14. Is the artwork directed at a certain age group, a certain class of people?

15. Who might like this work of art? Would some be offended?

16. Sue Coe

17. Sue Coe (born 1951 in Tamworth, Staffordshire) is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. She grew up close to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals. Coe studied at the Royal College of Art in London, lived in New York City from 1972 to She currently lives in upstate New York. Her work is highly political, often directed against capitalism and cruelty to animals.

19. For a quarter century she has explored factory farming, meat packing, apartheid, sweat shops, prisons, AIDS, and war. Her commentary on political events and social injustice is published in newspapers, magazines and books. The results of her investigations are hung in museum and gallery exhibitions and form an essential part of personal fine print collections by artists and activists alike. Coe's paintings and prints are auctioned as fund raisers for a variety of progressive causes, and since 1998, she has sold prints to benefit animal rights organizations.

21. Her major influences include the works of Chaim Soutine and José Guadalupe Posada, Käthe Kollwitz, Francisco Goya and Rembrandt. She is a frequent contributor to World War 3 Illustrated, and has seen her work published in The Progressive, Mother Jones, Blab, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Newsweek The Nation and countless other periodicals.