Every individual interprets a painting in his/ her own way and sometimes one could find more than one explanation for the same piece of art. As a non-professional my understanding of this painting indicates that it represents a medical experiment of a cow that in her turn is observing another painting of her own species. The cow is accompanied by a group of people who probably are scientists and doctors. Realism is well executed in the painting. To be more clear, on the right side one scientist is standing with pen and paper in his hand to take notes of the cow’s reactions to the painting. The doctors and the people standing by all wearing glasses, except that one person on the left who has a mop in his hand, possibly to clean after the cow …show more content…
The title reveals a lot about the painting and gives an expanded explanation of what’s going on in it and what is the main message that the painter wants to send through his painting. The “Innocent Eye” from the title represents the cow’s eyes that the scientists are relying on. Here the eyes of the cow are the main tools of how she is going to interpret the painting and react accordingly. The whole experiment is based on those innocent eyes that symbolize simplicity; they are a representation of the reactions of unprofessional viewers of arts that are reflected through their innocent eyes. In other words, the cow itself represents amateur viewers of the painting that explain art through their own vision, having difficulty with understanding the authenticity of the images represented in the painting. The painter wants to send a message through the title that the cleverness of a cow in explaining the painting can be compared to those inexperienced people who criticize art and how innocent eyes can be tricked by things that appear to be true and …show more content…
Titles give us a chance to analyze the meaning of it throughout the piece of art and that meaning is usually hard to comprehend. Titles are the main key for analyzing paintings. For example, at first when I didn’t know the real title of the painting and gave it my own name The Experiment, I analyzed the painting in completely other way and searched for details that concerned the experiment I was very focused on. After finding out the real title The Innocent Eye Test I looked at the painting from another perspective and wanted to understand what the painter wanted the audience to understand by naming his painting The Innocent Eye Test and this time focused more on the eyes of the cow and what might they be a presentation of. From this example I can say that titles do matter in terms of understanding paintings, especially when it comes to their main idea and the painters’ main messages. The idea that lies withing the title makes us see the painting in a whole new way and find details that we didn’t pay attention to when the title wasn’t known
The artwork starts outside the barn. The left bottom of the painting holds a brown and white pig walking towards the barn in front of the resting dog lying just inside the barn’s open double doors. The pig’s ears are brown while its engorged nipples suggest it had piglets. As the pig strolls in front of the barn it encounters the remains of animal bones while patches of green grass and dirt highlight the way to the barn. On the opposite side of the pig, stands a reddish brown horse. The horse 's mane and tail are black. Its hind legs are white. The tip of the horse’s nose is white. The horse wears a saddle, bridle, halter, bit and reins. Its left hind leg rises as if ready to bolt. In the bottom right hand corner below the horse reads, “G.H. Durrie 1853.” While the area in front of the barn appears sparse, it is the barn and what occurs inside that is where the action
...elationship between the people in the composition and their feelings in each other’s company. The viewer is forced to think critically about the people in the painting and their feelings and body language.
are depicted with the same degree of variation. To understand such a diverse set of paintings –
"The Innocent Eye Test" is an oil on canvas painting created in 1981 by Mark Tansey. The work is currently in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. The author of this piece of art is a Californian born in 1949. Mark Tansey was immersed in the world of art since an early age. The main influences came from his family that had a history of artists belonging to it. In the 1970s, his main influence becomes René Magritte's eight methods, from which he starts searching for ways of illustrating contradictions as motivation for a painting. From this, Tansey understands that representations are necessary bridges between symbols and meanings. This author's paintings
Visiting the gallery made me think that art comes in many different shape, color, and views. Everyone is an artist in their own special way. There may have been several pieces that I did not like in the gallery, but the artist and other people have liked it and that is why it is a piece of art. I remembered in class we talked about how pictures can usually tell more than someone’s words. I believe that everyone that has looked at the pieces that I looked at today most likely all had different views on what the artist was trying to convey. There is a reason why artists do not always include words in their art because it is up to the viewers to think about the meaning behind the works.
This picture to me is saying that even when a mule deer has died and the only thing left is bones and its horns, there is still life with that deer. The deer has lived a life that none of us could have imagined, no one but that deer could tell the story of its life. The mule deer is a symbol of living and how nature can be so hard on animals. The picture makes you feel like the deer is staring at you and that maybe it is trying to tell you something. I know the excitement that comes with hunting and when you shoot that deer and come up to it, there is nothing in this world that feels better. It is really hard to explain the feeling that comes with hunting, but this picture is a deer that has died and it could have been by a hunter or it could have been just old age or disease. It is hard to tell with this picture what has happened to the mule deer.
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
...ion on her face as she gazes at her newborn son. She holds her stomach in agony (I assume this is because child birth is a painful and exhausting experience). The father gazes at his son lovingly as he coddles and embraces him. I empathize with this couple because I have experienced this moment with my parents. My dad once held me just as the father depicted in the painting; and my mother lay there exhausted, yet regarding of me, just as the mother in the painting.
A frame is to a painting, what a book cover is to a book and a title sequence to a film in that they’re all paratextual parergon’s. These works are changeable, sometimes not having any relation to the actual text, painting or film that they surround, however they can’t be removed because they become apart of the work. A paratext is something that has been created for a piece of work, but not by the original author of that work. They are also pieces of work that accessorise a main piece of work, otherwise known as a perergon. These paratexts might not be entirely necessary, although without them, certain elements of the works might be lost. A painting without a frame, would still be a painting, the same applies to a book and a film. Picture frames and book covers are not autonomous, there is little reason for a book or a frame other than the work it encompasses. Artists and designers strive to make them into beautiful objects and quite often they become known as just that in some ways making them unsuccessful in their purpose. Each paratext is similar and different from each other in many ways. The thing that ties them together is that they are all parergons.
Viewing a work of art is a multidimensional phenomenon. There is the primary act of looking, wherein one sees a combination of shapes and lines and can immediately identify it as a familiar object. For example, the red, rounded figure on the table in a given painting, whose circumference lessens towards its bottoms and which protrudes a thin, brown stem from its top, is fairly quickly identifiable to the viewer as an apple. However, there is a level of looking at art that is secondary to this, which was notably commented on by German art historian Erwin Panofsky. Artists use certain visual motifs that refer to a theme or concept -- which Panofsky refers to as an image. The study of these images, alone and in collection, is what the historian uses to define iconographic analysis or, in more simple terms, iconography. By understanding the ideas that are denoted by the imagery in art, the viewer is better able to understand the meaning of the artwork itself.
Critical thinking is a very important aspect to understanding art. As David Perkins put it in “The Intelligent Eye”, we must avoid “experimental thinking”, a rash, quick way of thinking based on observations and use “reflective intelligence”, a way of thinking in which a viewer takes their time and dissects details and nuances to fully understand a work of art. A majority of viewers will look at a piece of art and come to a quick analysis of it, without much thought. But, according to Perkins, “The more attentive the observation is, the better the opportunity is for deeper learning” (Perkins 14). As Banksy said in Exit Through the Gift Shop, “the reaction to the work of art is the most important thing about it.” Without a reaction or an opinion, the work of art has no meaning. Therefore, in order to trul...
images in this painting, all of which have the power to symbolize to us, the viewer, of the painter’s
Art is an integral part of society. It is imbedded deep within human culture and has been around since nearly the beginning of humankind. How people view art greatly differs, not only between cultures, but between individuals. So many different meanings can be extracted from a single piece of work, which leads to the complexity and beauty of art itself. The meaning behind a work of art is not always what is important to people, it can also be the aesthetics. People like art that is pleasing to the eye as well as to the mind. In Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, Griet, the protagonist, silently appreciates and critiques the artwork in the Vermeer household while busy acting as maid, a
Conversely, upon investigating the artwork’s factual information such as the painting’s context, the artist’s background, the genre and the school or movement associated with the painting, it is possible to obtain knowledge that combines objective information and subjective opinion, confirming that some degree of objectivity, albeit with our ‘cultural imprint’, is possible as an art observer.
To me the painting is a way of showing you what everyone else is seeing. That the painter had the men looking right at each other so they can see themselves running away. In turn I got to see myself doing the same thing and was able to change because of it. When other people look at the painting they probably see something else. That is why I choose to do the painting, it gives you the choice too interpret it any way you see fit. Or it can just be a beautiful painting to look at, but the painting was so much more to me. It painted a thousand words for me.