Walking into one of the many galleries located around South Africa may lead you to feel like a bit of a lost sheep. Especially if you wouldn’t exactly call yourself an artist or art connoisseur. But the fact that you still find art interesting enough to view, means you may, in fact, possess the skills you need to interpret and appreciate the art in front of you. And that’s all artists are really asking for, anyway.
We’ll be looking at the different ways you can interpret works of art and actually enjoy those trips to art museums and galleries.
It will make a great difference to your gallery experience if you’ve done some research on the artist whose work you’re about to see beforehand. Having the artist’s context in the back of your mind while you view their work will help you better understand why certain materials, styles and images are used.
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You’ll also find out what themes they are famous for depicting in their artworks, which will help you place the artpiece’s theme and context as well. Context makes many things in life easier to understand and art is no exception to that fact. And, specifically, with the change African art is undergoing with artists creating more contemporary pieces with a head-on approach to controversial societal and political topics (founded on their individual contexts), you’ll
The next thing you need to keep in mind is that many pieces of art aren’t always meant to be obvious. So, if it only takes you a few seconds to look at an artwork and think you know what’s happening because you recognise symbols and materials, please try again. Yes, it may be a face, but the painting probably isn’t only about a woman’s face. Different paint strokes and techniques in different areas of the face can mean different things. As well as different colours, or just the general use of colour, can mean something so much more.
You need to allow yourself some time to go through the steps of appreciating and interpreting a piece of art. Never assume you know all there is to know by assigning generic meaning to seemingly generic symbols in art. Art is created to make you think. So take your time.
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But, it’s not to say that the more obvious things don’t help with interpreting the artwork at all. In fact, a great way to start is by simply asking “What do I see”. What colours, textures, materials, art style, shapes, shades, repetition and/or patterns are in this art piece? You can’t begin to start interpreting something with no base of understanding the fundamentals of what it’s made up of.
When you have the basic description down, you can start considering what those all mean individually and together. Because, remember, it’s not always meant to be so obvious.
Taking the information based on what you see and the knowledge of the artist and their context, you can start deciphering what it means. Can you follow the strokes and find a movement or energy in the artwork? What emotions are depicted and translated through colour association and art technique? Is it conveying tranquillity or turmoil? Take everything you see and take it deeper to understand it better.
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When it comes to interpreting works of art it’s about iconography in the symbols we pick up that helps us to understand what the piece as a whole means.
Now that you get an idea of what the artwork is conveying, you can consider how your interpretation of it is making you feel. Do you understand it? Are you moved by the art style as it was intended to move you? Can you link the meaning of artpiece to you with its title?
You also need to understand that everyone is going to have their own interpretations at the end of the day. Symbols mean different things to different people and the interpretations may be similar but they’re, likely, not the same. Just as poets who write poetry have a message they wish to deliver to a reader through their words, artists have a message they wish to deliver to a viewer through their art techniques. But it is the viewer who has the final say at the end of the day. Your personal associations will lead you to understand an artwork differently than another viewer and that’s why there are instances where you won’t understand a certain piece of art almost at all. And you need to know that that’s okay.
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Take everything you’ve experienced from this one piece of art and hold onto it as you go through the process of the next artwork. This way you will be able to compare emotions, understanding, feelings and ease of interpretations that will help you criticise and assign value to different artworks – based on the experience you have with them.The philosophy of arts looks at interpretation as a means of finding meaning in some work of art. It aims at explaining what the art is and what it is meant for. Aesthetic interpretation goes deeper to unearth the emotional or experiential understanding in a piece. Visual arts is a wide subject that requires close study to make meaning. It goes beyond talent and imagination to create a history for humanity. And artist draws something in order to tell a story and make people believe in something beyond what they can see. That is why interpretation becomes the centre of the whole field. One may create a masterpiece and put it to public viewing and criticism, but it will not make much sense if poorly understood.
Artists may approach a piece of art from different starting points. The way a student analyses a canvas piece of art will not be the same as someone looking at it on a beach at their own pleasure. However, in both scenarios, they will look at the piece with the intention of making something out of it. The person on the beach may only look at it and marvel at its beauty, but a student will and must seek meaning in the art.
Interpreting visual arts does not differ very much from, say poetry, interpretation. In poetic art, there are two reading stances that create variations: aesthetic reading and efferent reading. Aesthetic reading is where the reader looks at the text with special attention to words themselves. They expect to define pleasure in their sounds, images, connotation and more. An efferent reader on the other hand reads for knowledge, information, or for conclusion to an argument. He/she may also be looking for direction; for instance in recipe – one reads for what they are going to carry away afterwards. In visual art, the first reader will seek for critical analysis of everything about the picture starting from the choice of the drawing ground, to the choice of ink and the setting of the painting. On the other hand, one can look at the painting for simple pleasure and nothing beyond the obvious.
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In any case, anyone who admires a work of art must be able to somehow draw conclusion. It may not be precise or clearly stated, but there must be something they get out. At artist does not create his work to simply impress himself or others. There is always a hidden story behind the picture. A keen look into the work will reveal so much effect, including the tone and the mode of the work. Interpretation aims to connect the person who drew the visual document and the admirer. When someone says they admire a certain artist, it means they have found theme in their work and worked on understanding their story. It is only through interpretation that you can know why a certain painting for instance appears the way it is.
Just like evaluation, works of art present a big problem in interpretation. They are very difficult to interpret; it takes time and effort to discover what lies beneath. There are two main factors that guide interpretation efforts:
According to this factor, knowledge of the biography, historical background and other similar factors become irrelevant. The approach assumes that such things are harmful since they get in the way of true appreciation of a piece of work; they tend to substitute their recital for the main focus of the work itself. If one looks at a piece of art and does not understand it, they have to go back and read, hear or view it over and over. It is all about constant re-exposure which submerges the recipient in the work with total absorption and permeation for maximum appreciation.
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In this approach, any art work should be held in its context or setting. It does not need to rely merely on the knowledge about it. Total appreciation brings out a much richer understanding of the work. Contextualists argue that all forms of arts, including painting and music should be apprehended on this basis.
There are many lovers of different forms of arts in the world. Each of them requires freedom to interpret what they see in the manner that is fit
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