Planes of Analysis

Question 1

study of signs

Answer 1

Semiotics

Question 2

_________________ = iconic or pictorial sign consisting of the signifier (material/physical aspect) and the signified (nonmaterial aspect as concept and value)

Answer 2

Work of art

Question 3

object as it exists in the real world

Answer 3

Referent

Question 4

physical or material marks or traces, elements, figures, and notations

Answer 4

Signifiers

Question 5

concepts and values suggested by the relationship of the signifiers

Answer 5

Signifieds

Question 6

Elements and the general technical and physical aspects of the work with their semantic meaning-conveying potential:

____________________ (line, value, color, texture, shape, composition in space, movement) and how they are used; must be viewed in a highly relational manner and not isolated or compartmentalized

Answer 6

Visual elements

Question 7

Elements and the general technical and physical aspects of the work with their semantic meaning-conveying potential:

______________________- handmade paper with organic allure, irregularities of texture, uneven edges; signifies uniquely personal, human and intimate against the mass produced standard paper; on technique, other valorize spontaneity and the play of chance or accident; others emphasize order and control

Answer 7

Choice of medium and technique

Question 8

Elements and the general technical and physical aspects of the work with their semantic meaning-conveying potential:

_____________________ – contemporary art: not purely conventional but laden with meaning; square: order and precision
Other physical properties and marks – notations, traces, textural features, marks (random or intentional)

Answer 8

Format of the work

Question 9

Sources of semantic or meaning-conveying potential of elements of visual arts:

(psychological and physical/sensory) commonly shared ; intellectual and emotional associations that go with light of day and night, warmth and cold, weight and gravity, relative distance, pleasure, and pain

Answer 9

human psychophysical experiences

Question 10

_________________: orientation and quality (thick, thin; density and porosity, regularity or irregularity; use of tech pen and stick of a charcoal – signify different set of values and concepts

Answer 10

On LINE

Question 11

Sense of tonal values derive from our ____________________ of a cycle of day and night , warmth and cold, weight and gravity, even and uneven pressure on a surface

Answer 11

experience

Question 12

__________________ = general meaning of an artwork

Answer 12

Shared experiences

Question 13

_________: optimism

_________: mystery, melancholy, respite

Answer 13

Dawn;
Night

Question 14

Sources of semantic or meaning-conveying potential of elements of visual arts:

Social codes and symbolic systems shared by members of society or group – color

Answer 14

sociocultural conventions of society and period (Matejka and Titunik 1976)

Question 14

Semantic inflections: mourning: black -_______, white-________

Answer 14

West; East

Question 15

Meaning is produced from interplay of the signifiers of the work (_____________,1974):

Answer 15

Saussure

Question 16

Other signifiers or conveyors of meaning are: dimension, format, medium, frame, techniques

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

The ___________________, or the Image Itself

Answer 17

Iconic Plane

Question 18

Part of the semiotic approach, also based on the signifier and the signified

Answer 18

Iconic Plane

Question 19

NOT on the material elements but has to do with the particular features, aspects, and qualities of the image which are second-level signifiers .

Answer 19

Iconic Plane

Question 20

___________=iconic sign

Answer 20

Image

Question 21

Focuses on the unique, particular, and highly-nuanced meaning different from a conventional sign.

Answer 21

Iconic Plane

Question 22

Includes choice of the subject – may bear social and political implications time?

Answer 22

Iconic Plane

Question 23

___________________________through facial expression, body language, costume and accessories, natural and social background; Peers or dominance/subordination? friendly, ironic, aggressive, hostile relationship?

Answer 23

Human figure –Subject-viewer relationship

Question 24

_________________ of figure(s) frontal, profile—centered or decentered? Asymmetrical? formal or casual? Stance of the central figure: poised, relaxed, indifferent, provocative, or aloof?; importance given into the character? Costume and accessories? Setting – natural, social, or domestic? Scaling? bearing in the meaning? (Tampuhan, 1895 by Luna); direction of the gaze?—impt in describing pictorial space

Answer 24

POSITIONING

Question 25

massed, isolated, or juxtaposed in terms of affinity or contrast; may be in temporal sequence to constitute a narrative ; simultaneous aspects of reality; serial images: Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup cans – on blatant consumerism of advanced capitalist societies

Answer 25

Relationship of figures

Question 26

a re-presentation or interpretation of the world, a world view, if not ideology classical figuration—ideal (proportion of 71/2 to 8 heads to the entire figure; realist – keen observation of people, nature, and society ; impressionist figuration – fluid and informal, catching the subject unaware like a candid camera; expressionists – follows emotional impulses and drives; involves distortion and clashing colors from strong emotion

Answer 26

STYLE OF FIGURATION

Question 27

Social and historical

Answer 27

Contextual Plane

Question 28

Brings about human and social implications of the work

Answer 28

Contextual Plane

Question 29

Draws out dialogic relationship between art and society

Answer 29

Contextual Plane

Question 30

Art involves ____________ or learning; an important way of learning about people, life, and society.”; expand our knowledge of reality? Insightful of the world and transformative?

Answer 30

cognition; Contextual Plane

Question 31

Calls upon knowledge of society’s history and its economic, political, and cultural conditions; comes with knowledge of national and world art and literatures, mythologies, philosophies, and different culture and world views; with references and allusions to historical figures and events, religious, literary, and philosophical ideas and values

Answer 31

Contextual Plane

Question 32

Symbolic systems, which are culture bound come into play – color, shape, design, cultural symbols associated with the belief system

Answer 32

Contextual Plane

Question 33

Values found in abstract art: spontaneity against discipline and order, mystery and elusiveness against clear definition, informality against formal, transitoriness against permanence : viewed in the light of the intellectual trends of the time

Answer 33

Contextual Plane

Question 34

Situates the work in the personal and social circumstances of its production – allusion to personal and public events, conditions, stages, as well as influences (such as persons and literary texts) that have been particularly meaningful to the artist from which themes and subthemes may be derived; biographical data

Answer 34

Contextual Plane

Question 35

Study against the artist’s body of work ; juxtaposed and compared on the semiotic, iconic, and contextual planes with works of artists of the same period, in different periods of his career, with the work of his contemporaries.

Answer 35

Contextual Plane

Question 36

Has to do with analyzing the values of a work Involves form and content

Answer 36

The Evaluative Plane

Question 37

= to what degree the material basis of the work conveys meaning or particular intellectual/emotional contents

Answer 37

The Evaluative Plane

Question 38

Reckons with standards of excellence in the use of medium and related techniques ;

Answer 38

The Evaluative Plane

Question 39

medium (surface, ground, material blocks, instruments, tools, pigments) used with the high degree of skill, creativity, and insight?

Answer 39

The Evaluative Plane

Question 40

Medium the most appropriate in conveying general or specific significations? ; technical side calls for familiarity with and sensitivity to the properties of the medium; transgressing conventional processes and norms in the quest for new creative and expressive resources accommodated

Answer 40

The Evaluative Plane

Question 41

Traditional considerations of form: principles of organization: rhythm, harmony, balance, and proportion.

Answer 41

The Evaluative Plane