Interrelationship of Form and Meaning Definition:
People give meaning to objects in many ways. What a person chooses to communicate through art is deeply connected to how one chooses to say it. Choice of media, style, scale, etc. all affect the viewers perception of the artists message and meaning. Interpretation of personal and cultural symbols also influence what meanings are discovered in art.
Related Concepts:
Making Special: Artistic elaboration and decoration of objects and environments is one way that humans make things special in their world. Giving artistic meaning to an object usually thought of as common, such as creating a collage of antique aprons or a costume from neckties, can make something special in a new way.
Symbols and Signs: A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else. Visual artists use words, materials, gestures and pictures to convey meaning. Signs are marks or indications, frequently pictorial, conveying conventional meaning, that inform or guide the viewer.
Metaphors: Metaphors use words, phrases or visual images to create an analogy or likeness between two objects or ideas. This process produces a new imaginative concept.
Visual Storytelling: Art can tell stories through dynamic use of pictures. Sometimes these stories are presented using sequence to represent the passage of time, or scale to indicate relative importance of various aspects of the story. Symbols frequently communicate the details of an experience or event in storytelling.
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