This document discusses three pieces of artwork and asks questions about the meaning and symbolism conveyed in each piece. It asks about the meaning the artist intended to convey through the elements in the Great Lyre sound box. It asks to identify and describe the iconography and symbolic meanings in The Virgin of the Rocks painting. And it asks how the meaning of Calder WTC Stabile has been altered by the events of September 11, 2001.
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Derviving meaning
1. Using the four stages
of Formal Analysis
(Description, Analysis,
Interpretation,
Judgment) what
meaning do you think
the artist is trying to
convey through the
The front
different elements of
panel of the
Great Lyre
this piece of artwork?
sound box (c.
2600-2500
BCE)
2. Identify and describe the
use of iconography and the
symbolic meanings
conveyed by the
iconographic motifs in this
painting.
The Virgin of the Rocks
4. How has the meaning of this piece been altered
by the events of September 11, 2001?
Calder WTC Stabile, or Bent Propeller