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3. Chapter 2 Developing Visual Literacy

4. Previously -- What is art? -- What are your expectations of art?
-- What is the value in art (even in controversial art)?
-- What is beautiful?
-- Content and iconography
-- The impact of image and text
Style

5. “If television has made us virtually dependent on visual information, we have not necessarily become literate in the process.”

6. Visual Literacy
- Relationship between (words/images/objects) in the real world
- The idea of representation
- Form
- Content
- Conventions in Art
- Iconography

7. Shirin Neshat
Her photography and video installations are known for there hauntingly beautiful explorations of Islam, political violence, gender relations and the human form. Her works also draw on her personal experience as an artist in exile. She now lives in New York.
The Saffarzadeh’s verses express the deep belief of many Iranian women in Islam. That the Chador helps them be equal with men by concealing their bodies, making them less sexual objects. It also expresses solidarity with Islamic men in the rejection of Western culture. But, to westerners the text is undecipherable and the meaning of image is lost in the inability to read Arabic, the cultural misunderstanding of the chador and women, and the tension introduced by the gun.

8. Iconography. The images and symbols conventionally
Iconography The images and symbols conventionally associated with a subject. The study of the significance and interpretation of the subject matter of art. Any and all things & factors that influence the creation and reception of a work of art Ethnocentric Imposing on the art of another culture the meaning and prejudices of another Conventions A traditional repertoire of visual images and effects that tend to be understood in a particular way.

9. Picasso’s exposure to African art was a creative liberation for him
Picasso’s exposure to African art was a creative liberation for him. Where African artists use abstraction to celebrate life, Picasso used it to create emotional and psychological tension in his work. Freed from having to represent reality in all its detail, Picasso could explore the expressiveness of imagination. His imagination represented the world in a new way Thus, although his cubist work may be uncomfortable (it certainly is unrealistic), there is beauty in new forms of expression.

10. The Arnolfini Marriage

11. Book. New Research Finds…. Portrait of bride & groom
Book New Research Finds… Portrait of bride & groom Loving memorial to deceased wife Bed symbolizes wealth Bed, and composition of this painting is very similar to other paintings of Mary being pregnant. The wife is pregnant and she dies during pregancy Oranges symbolize wealth Widower husband is a devoted religious man and he frames his love for his wife and their relationship in very religious terms. Fruit refers to temptation Green dress and it’s style Wife is pregnant is sign of their wealth and her fertility

12. Book. New Research Finds…. Single candle represents
Book New Research Finds… Single candle represents There were 2 candles, hers has presence of Christ in this expired, suggesting her death religious home Shoes represent wealth Discarded shoes tell the viewer that the husband will love no other, he is faithful even after her death