Looking at most of the paintings one doesn’t need art education it’s more like common sense appealing to human nature and having a keen eye for observation and for detail. As opposed to ‘mystery painting’ as there isn’t much obvious about it and only way to such a painting would be visually on the evidence presented by the art gallery mystery text tab itself.
A portrait on the other hand is picture of a person, still life is also easily recognized style, genre painting is a scene from everyday life, the terms themselves can often falsely suggest distinctive and exclusive categories. Categorizing a painting is not an exact science nor is it a simple one. Broad classification into immediately recognizable genres is however a very self-place to start when beginning to describe the painting.
The methodology described in this section of the book Is ideal for ‘what you see is what you get ‘kind of paintings specially for paintings that the entire substance for it lies within the painting except for when dealing with religious or mythical scenes. We look at a visual text purely at a face value we often failed to delve beyond its face value.
The first works on iconology were simple practical books of emblem and personifications which showed artists how to represent particular people and virtues and so on. They gave practical ideas on how to represent abstract ideas foremost among them was Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia published originally in Italy in 1593.It underpins many traditional histories of art as the identification of subject matter is important to nearly all figurative works. The medieval and renaissance periods are particularly rich in emblems and symbols both overt and disguised and studies concentrating on these periods are especially interesting to those who enjoy the iconology approach.
To discuss form Fry is the ideal person to talk about here as he thought form n content changed in painting just as the painting itself was turning away from the pursuit of realism at the start of the 20th century. He thought that there has to be more to art than the simple imitation of reality. According to him people has 2 lives, actual and imaginary and the work of art was intimately connected with the second.
If we are practicing artists in any medium whatsoever we will understand the aesthetic balance to bear even in small everyday life for instance while arranging furniture or hanging a picture on a wall.We all rework the attraction of the eye.
Traditional art history is that approach is subject to fierce attacks on several fronts. The conventional perspective exemplified by the work of Gombrich have been under criticism such as that it focuses upon the individual artist and does not take social environment into consideration and overlooks female artist and favors some over others. In a rich and intense debate over art history everything is open to criticism even criticism can be criticized.
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