FSN 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Tertiary Color, Secondary Color, Primary Color
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Formalism: art for art"s sake - adherents view works independently of their context/function. Iconographic method: contradictory to formalism, examines the content over form. Iconology: interpretation/rationale of a group of works, aka program . Marxism: relation of art to the economic context operating within a social context. Study for and content not for their sake, but for the social message conveyed. Search for manipulation on behalf of the ruling class. Feminism: assumes that the making of art is influenced by gender. Aim to illuminate the discrimination of the past regarding women in art. Biographical: interpret works as expressions the of the artists personal lives. Semiology: science of signs, meaning-making takes issue with the biographical method and formalism. Signifier: sound or written element (pipe: p-i-p-e) Signified: concept of what the signifier refers to (a pipe) Rene magritte"s pipe: pipe is actually signified in the painting more so than the word or oration of the pipe.