{"id":858,"date":"2017-08-07T05:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/?page_id=858"},"modified":"2017-08-07T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:32:45","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/learning-pathways\/how-art-speaks\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"objectives\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Introduction to How Art Speaks<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<table class=\"cquote\" style=\"margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201c\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\"> There is only one thing in a work of art that is important: it\u2019s that thing you can\u2019t explain.\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201d\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"cquotecite\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\">\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller; text-align: right;\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u2014Georges Braque<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Even though Braque\u2019s enigmatic quote cloaks works of art in mystery, art, by its nature, holds meaning. It explains ideas, uncovers truths, manifests what is beautiful and tells stories. It is at once a form of visual expression and non-verbal communication. Many times an artwork\u2019s meaning, or <i>content<\/i>, is easy to <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/05\/arts\/design\/05monet.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper\">see<\/a>. Two examples are the freshness of an Impressionist landscape painting (below left) or the identity inherent in a portrait photograph (below right).\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gallery mw-gallery-traditional\">\n<li class=\"gallerybox\" style=\"width: 335px\">\n<div style=\"width: 335px\">\n<div class=\"thumb\" style=\"width: 330px;\">\n<div style=\"margin:81.5px auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Monet,_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/5\/5d\/Monet%2C_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg\/300px-Monet%2C_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallerytext\">\n<p>Claude Monet, <i>Lavacourt under Snow<\/i>, ca 1878 &#8211; 1881, oil on canvas, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"gallerybox\" style=\"width: 335px\">\n<div style=\"width: 335px\">\n<div class=\"thumb\" style=\"width: 330px;\">\n<div style=\"margin:15px auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Nadar_(Gaspard_F%C3%A9lix_Tournachon)_(French_-_Self-Portrait_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/a\/a3\/Nadar_%28Gaspard_F%C3%A9lix_Tournachon%29_%28French_-_Self-Portrait_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\/285px-Nadar_%28Gaspard_F%C3%A9lix_Tournachon%29_%28French_-_Self-Portrait_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"350\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallerytext\">\n<p>F\u00e9lix Nadar, <i>Self Portrait<\/i>, ca. 1855, salted paper, The J. Paul Getty Museum, California, US\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But sometimes the meaning in a work of art is hidden, deciphered from signposts and clues imbedded in the work by the artist.<br \/>\nIn this module we will see how <i>formal<\/i> properties, <i>subject matter<\/i>, <i>iconography<\/i> and <i>context<\/i> team up to help interpret meaning in art. Let\u2019s approach these four terms as different <i>levels<\/i> of meaning we can examine to get a more complete understanding of what we are seeing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.053 seconds\nReal time usage: 1.674 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 167\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1230\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 6497\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 4032\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 8\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:181454-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20170807053242 and revision id 1029607\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/art103\/learning-pathways\/how-art-speaks\/overview-and-objectives\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/art103\/learning-pathways\/how-art-speaks\/how-we-see\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":854,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions\/859"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}