The document discusses analyzing a piece of artwork using the four stages of formal analysis: description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment. It asks what meaning or idea the artist was trying to convey, to identify iconography and symbolic meanings in the painting, and whether the work took on greater meaning after 9/11.
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Derviving meaning
1. Using the four stages
of Formal Analysis
(Description, Analysis,
Interpretation,
Judgment) what
meaning, or idea, do
you think the artist is
trying to convey
The front
through this piece of
panel of the
Great Lyre
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
3. Do you think this work of art had an even
greater meaning after the 9/11 attack in
2001? Explain why.