VPHA46H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Introduction: Art History
22 Apr 2018
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He believed a true artist should engage in intellectual activity of a higher order and attempt to capture the energy/power of an object. How do we find the meaning of art: art carries a message. It can inform, challenge, and/persuade viewers, as well as give them pleasure or embody cherished cultural norms. Iconography- conventional subjects and symbols and the study of them. Arts and ritual: some art work was used for common rituals as tools to establish ties to unseen powers, sometimes to connect the present with the past and the future. May be valued as artwork by outsiders unaware of the circumstances/ceremonies that brought them to life. Art as sociopolitical commentary: as sophisticated forms of human communication, the visual arts shape, and are shaped by, their sociopolitical context, political rulers/government uses artwork to promote their political interests. In the ancient world, painters and sculptors were considered laborers.
