Předpoklady porozumění, kompetence a „rodiny jazyků“ ve vizuálním umění
| Title in English | Assumptions of Comprehension, Competence and 'Language Families' in the Visual Arts |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | What do we need to know to understand the meaning of a painting? How should we prepare when we go to the gallery? How do we explain why we do or don't understand paintings? This paper presents an overview of how paintings carry their meaning from the perspective of semiotics and analytic aesthetics. It focuses on the process of interpreting and understanding this meaning. This understanding requires some spectatorial competencies, but their combination may vary each painting style or even each artist and each work. It is unclear to determine the requirements of each painting style, but we can trace commonalities and define the main pictorial categories based on the expected spectatorial competencies. If each painting style has its own "language", these categories represent a "language family". Each of them is characterized by a different approach to representation, a different intention that the paintings aim to achieve, the rules of their symbolic systems, and the kinds of meaning they mediate. Understanding these differences will provide a better understanding of the paintings of a given family. And only if we can understand the images can we adequately evaluate them aesthetically. |
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