The Methodologies of Art

Adams, Laurie Schneider

doi:10.4324/9780429494444

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“…Art has traditionally been compared with language in terms of its communicative functioning (Adams, 1996; Gombrich, 1963, 1972), but that is not our argument here. Rather, we assert that whereas both art and language can communicate an intended thought, emotion, or idea, art may transcend ordinary language and be particularly potent at expressing emotional information, and it likely operates on an embodied level (Dolese et al, 2014).…”

Section: Art and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 90%

Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.

Dolese¹,

Kozbelt²

2021

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Positive aesthetic experiences plausibly involve viewers’ ability to construct meaning by regarding art as a communicative process. Here we develop and analyze results of a survey extending the Gricean communication framework from language to visual art. Operationalizing the 4 Gricean maxims and an index of intent, we assessed their predictive power for artists’ and nonartists’ aesthetic liking of paintings varying in level of abstraction. Results showed that perceived maxim fulfillment was positively related to increased aesthetic liking and that most maxims maintained consistent predictive power across raters. Comparisons of artists’ and nonartists’ ratings on highly abstract versus representational paintings showed a consistent strong effect for painting type, with representational paintings receiving generally higher ratings on each maxim, intent, and liking by both groups. The Gricean framework is a fruitful means of capturing perceived artistic communication and aesthetic liking, and we discuss ways of developing this model, for instance, in distinguishing maxim fulfillment from understanding nonfulfillment as intentional.

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Section: Art and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 90%

Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.

Dolese¹,

Kozbelt²

2021

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…To find out the meaning contained in political cartoons with the theme of Indonesian foreign policy, iconographic and iconological methods are used. The iconographic method according to Adams (1996) is the iconographics approach to work of art primarily considering the meaning of subject matter [8]. Erwin Panofsky explained that iconography is a study that pays attention to the configuration of images in a work to find out the hidden meaning.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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The Meaning Of Indonesia’s-Foreign-Policy-Themed Political Cartoon Artwork During Demokrasi Terpimpin Era

Hidayatullah

2023

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Mass media uses political cartoon as a strategy to convey opinion regarding an issue with humour or satirical approach. This research aims to understand the meaning of caricature artwork published in newspapers during Demokrasi Terpimpin (Orde Lama) that criticize Indonesia’s foreign policy. During the era, President Soekarno implemented a confrontative Indonesian foreign policy. To understand the meaning of those foreign-policy-themed political cartoon, an Iconographic theory by Erwin Panofsky using descriptive analysis method is used. The research conducted through several steps which include pre-iconographic description, iconographic analysis, and iconological interpretation. The discussion begins by describing the visual aspects of political cartoons. The next stage explains the visual analysis and ends by interpreting the visual metaphors of political cartoons.From the research, Indonesia’s foreign policy during Demokrasi Terpimpin era showed assertive and critical attitude towards (neo) imperialism and colonialism. The benefits of this research is to give a deeper understanding about Indonesia’s foreign policy especially during Demokrasi Terpimpin era through political cartoons artwork.

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“…Nowadays, several approaches for visual images interpretation are available, each considering different aspects (Rose, 2001). This variety is reflected in interpretation methodologies, which can focus on the objects themselves (formal aspects, content or materials), on the creator (psychoanalysis) or on the cultural context to which it belongs (Adams, 2010). Among them, content analysis and understanding are objects of interest in iconography and iconology.…”

Section: Artwork Descriptions and Interpretationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is dc:subject enough? A landscape on iconography and iconology statements of knowledge graphs in the semantic web

Baroncini

Sartini

Erp³

et al. 2023

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PurposeIn the last few years, the size of Linked Open Data (LOD) describing artworks, in general or domain-specific Knowledge Graphs (KGs), is gradually increasing. This provides (art-)historians and Cultural Heritage professionals with a wealth of information to explore. Specifically, structured data about iconographical and iconological (icon) aspects, i.e. information about the subjects, concepts and meanings of artworks, are extremely valuable for the state-of-the-art of computational tools, e.g. content recognition through computer vision. Nevertheless, a data quality evaluation for art domains, fundamental for data reuse, is still missing. The purpose of this study is filling this gap with an overview of art-historical data quality in current KGs with a focus on the icon aspects.Design/methodology/approachThis study’s analyses are based on established KG evaluation methodologies, adapted to the domain by addressing requirements from art historians’ theories. The authors first select several KGs according to Semantic Web principles. Then, the authors evaluate (1) their structures’ suitability to describe icon information through quantitative and qualitative assessment and (2) their content, qualitatively assessed in terms of correctness and completeness.FindingsThis study’s results reveal several issues on the current expression of icon information in KGs. The content evaluation shows that these domain-specific statements are generally correct but often not complete. The incompleteness is confirmed by the structure evaluation, which highlights the unsuitability of the KG schemas to describe icon information with the required granularity.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this work is an overview of the actual landscape of the icon information expressed in LOD. Therefore, it is valuable to cultural institutions by providing them a first domain-specific data quality evaluation. Since this study’s results suggest that the selected domain information is underrepresented in Semantic Web datasets, the authors highlight the need for the creation and fostering of such information to provide a more thorough art-historical dimension to LOD.

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The Methodologies of Art

Cited by 23 publications

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Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.

Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.

The Meaning Of Indonesia’s-Foreign-Policy-Themed Political Cartoon Artwork During Demokrasi Terpimpin Era

Is dc:subject enough? A landscape on iconography and iconology statements of knowledge graphs in the semantic web

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