ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini, Regional Policy Of The European Union
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For example, making sense of willem de koonig"s north atlantic light requires visual literacy. Q: put aside whether or not you instinctually like this work. Instead, let"s begin to understand how it is communicating. Words and images - both images and words can refer to things that we see or experience in the world, but they are not the things themselves. Words and images work together: words help us to explain, for example, what we see or experience. If an artwork"s subject matter is apparent, we use our words to articulate what the artwork means. This painting depicts an image of a pipe, and the captions says "this is not a pipe. " Magritte refers to the fact that this image is a representation of a pipe, not an actual pipe. Both images and words symbolically refer to things in the world, but are not the things themselves. Example b: calligraphy is handwriting as a form of art.