Week Two Discussion (Art Appreciation)

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Can Art Ever Be Completely Random

Pattern and rhythm are so integral to the human perspective of the world that their absence can be very disconcerting.

1. Do you think it would be possible for an artist to create a completely random work? How might they do this?

Would viewers be able to understand a work that does not feature any pattern or rhythm?

2. Using Modes of Analysis

Practice the different methods of interpreting a work of art.

Select a rich work of art, such as Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (3.6.11a). Analyze your choice of artwork via formal, iconographic, contextual, biographical, feminist, or psychological.

Is one approach more valid than the others for your selected artwork, and why?


Textbook Title: Gateways to Art (w/ InQuisitive)(Custom)

Author(s)/Editor(s): DeWitte, Larmann, & Shields

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Edition: 4th

ISBN: 9780500845127

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