ART 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Audrey Flack, Grande Odalisque, Edward Hopper
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P a t c h e t t | 1. Content and analysis: by using the elements and principles of design we can visually analyze a work of art. This refers to formal analysis, one of the paradigms through which we can look at art. Idealized art takes recognizable images and makes them better. This is an idealized statue of marcus aurelius. The viewer looks at the images and figures in the artwork examining them for signs and symbols, sometimes based on religious, cultural, or historical beliefs understood at the time the work was created. Then the viewer may attempt to interpret these: contextual analysis: looks at the work in context of its surrounding world (historical, religious, political, economic, social, etc. ). P a t c h e t t | 4. Vanitas painting the images are symbolic of the fleeting nature of the material life. P a t c h e t t | 5.
