Developing Visual Literacy
Barbara Kruger
Various Works
1984-86
Title: The Treason of Images
Artist: René Magritte
Date: 1929
Source/Museum: Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, California.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York. © 2003 C. Herscovici, Brussels/Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 ½ x 28 ½ in.
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Magritte
Marisol Escobar
1998 Mixed Media
One and Three Chairs
Joseph Kosuth 1965 Installation
convention - General agreement on or acceptance of certain customs; a
standard attitude, interpretation, or practice (procedure, technique, iconography,
etc.).
Title: She
Artist: Lorna Simpson
Date: 1992
Source/Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ellen Kelleran Gardner
Fund. Reproduced with permission. 1992.204a-e. © 2006 Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.
Medium: Photographs, four dye-diffusion transfers (Polaroids) and plaque
Size: 29 x 85 ¼ in.
Title: Necklines
Source/Museum: Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Artist: Lorna Simpson
Medium: Three silver prints, two plastic plaques
Date: 1989
Size: 68 ½ x 70 in.
Subject matter - That which is represented in an artwork
Content – On the other hand, some feel that content is the meaning of a
work beyond its subject matter, denotations that it consists also of its
connotations, levels of meaning which are not obviously apparent.
Title: The Park
Source/Museum: Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Artist: Lorna Simpson
Medium: Edition of 3, serigraph on six felt panels with
felt text panel (not shown)
Date: 1995
Size: 67 x 67 ½ in. overall
Title: The Park
Source/Museum: Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Artist: Lorna Simpson
Medium: Edition of 3, serigraph on six felt panels with
felt text panel (not shown)
Date: 1995
Size: 67 x 67 ½ in. overall
Conventions and Art
convention - General agreement on or acceptance of certain customs; a
standard attitude, interpretation, or practice (procedure, technique, iconography,
etc.).
ethnocentrism – It imposes upon the art of another culture the meanings and
prejudices of our own. The tendency to see one's own ethnic group as the
norm and all others as marginal;
Title: Apollo Belvedere (detail)
Artist: n/a
Date: Roman copy after a 4th century BCE Greek original
Title: African mask, Sang tribe, Gabon, West Africa
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
ICONOGRAPHY Iconography is the pictorial representation of a subject, or
the collected images (or icons) illustrating a subject — pictures, diagrams,
etc. Iconography can mean the description of representational works of art.
Also, the study of subject matter and symbolism in the visual arts, as in
collections of pictures constituting a complete visual record of a subject, or a
visual dictionary.
ICONOGRAPHY Iconography is the pictorial representation of a subject, or
the collected images (or icons) illustrating a subject — pictures, diagrams,
etc. Iconography can mean the description of representational works of art.
Also, the study of subject matter and symbolism in the visual arts, as in
collections of pictures constituting a complete visual record of a subject, or a
visual dictionary.
Robert Langdon – Angels and Demons or the Da Vinci Code
Title: Helmet Mask, African, Baule, Ivory Coast
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Michael C.
Artist: n/a
Rockefeller Memorial Collection. Gift of Adrian Pascal LaGamma, 1973
(1978.412.664).
Date: 19th - 20th century
Medium: Wood, coloring
Size: Length 34 ¼ in.
Title: Buddha, adorned, seated in meditation on the serpent Mucilinda
Source/Museum: Photo: Superstock, Inc.
Artist: n/a
Medium: n/a
Date: c. 1100-1150
Size: n/a
Title: The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Date: 1434
Source/Museum: National Gallery, London. Bridgeman Art
Library.
Medium: Oil on oak panel
Size: n/a
Title:The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami (detail)
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Date: 1434
Source/Museum: National Gallery, London. Bridgeman Art
Library.
Medium: Oil on oak panel
Size: n/a
Title: Triumphal Entry
Artist: n/a
Date: 1562-1583
Source/Museum: (page from a manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnamah),
Islamic, Iranian, and Turkish, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Francis Bartlett ©
2002 Museum of Fine Arts. Boston. All rights reserved.
Medium: opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Size: 18 11/16 x 13 in.
showing the Nativity, Annunciation of the Shepherds, and the Adoration of the Magi
Source/Museum: Chartres Cathedral, France. Giraudon/Art
Resource, New York.
Artist: n/a
Medium: n/a
Date: c. 1150
Size: n/a
Title: Lower nine panels of the center lancet window in the west front of Chartres Cathedral,
Title: Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek
Artist: John Taylor
Date: 1867
Source/Museum: Drawing for Leslie's Illustrated Gazette, SeptemberDecember 1867, as seen in Douglas C. Jones, The Treaty of Medicine Lodge,
page xx, Oklahoma University Press, 1966.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek
Source/Museum: New York State Library, Albany, New York
Artist: Howling Wolf
Medium: Ledger drawing, pencil, crayon, and ink on
paper
Date: 1875-1878
Size: 8 x 11 in.