Chapter 2: Developing Visual Literacy
Why were images in religious settings destroyed in sixteenth-century northern Europe?
The Ten Commandments forbid images.
Why are images traditionally frowned on in Islamic art?
The word can be trusted in a way that images cannot.
In a work of art, content refers to
What the work means
The less representation resembles the real world, the more it is considered
abstract.
How is Wolf Kahn s Afterglow I comparable to Willem de Kooning s North Atlantic Light?
Both paintings are largely concerned with the effects of light.
How did Kenneth Clark know of the African dancing mask he disparaged in his television series and book Civilization?
He owned it
Jan van Eyck s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami depicts many objects that have symbolic meaning. The use or study of these symbols is called
Iconography
Beatriz Milhazes s Carambola is based on
the square
