FAH332H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Clara Peeters, Roland Barthes, Stoneware
26 Jan 2018
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Treat the look and visual appeal of still life in realism rather than as a product of descriptive or illusionistic artifice. Persuasive power of these pictures lies precisely in the capacity of still-life pai(cid:374)ter"s artistry both to exploit and naturalize this representational transformation. Draw attention by emphasizing details flower petal vein carefully observed and faithfully recorded. Roland barthes approached dutch painting as a pictorial production as semantic space/field of signs and practices in which artists and viewers represented and made sense of themselves and their society. He noted that objects in still life pictures are never displayed alone but always in significant relationships to other objects. And that objects depicted in still life are manipulated and displayed in ways that make their uses and attributes conspicuous aspects of their appearance. Modern interpretations are focused too exclusively on symbolic meanings and are too reductive to amount for the multifaceted significance of such images.
