Visual Arts History 1042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Perception, Apophony, Industrial Revolution
17 Dec 2017
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Key themes: the visual is a language, discipling knowledge. Formalism: form over content* focus on form over the context physical properties of a work (elements and principals of design) Muqi fachang (ink, brush strokes: simplistic, take it all in all at once. To understand an image, must understand the symbols. Audrey flack, marilyn (vanitas painting) 1977: 17th century popular in the netherlands, contains symbolic images oof death, calls upon viewer to consider their mortality, the clock, the candle, the old photograph. Still life, willem claesz heda, 1634: research in to the time. Ferdinand de saussure 1857-1913 a linguistic system s a eries of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. Help to understand what an image is actually doing. If the visual is a language then it is composed by a sysmte of rules: couldn"t make meaning fi there were no rules.
