Reflection on visit to Gulbenkian + Introduction to Formal Film Analysis

4 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

General discussion of students' reaction to the guided visit to the Founder's Collection at the Gulbenkian Museum. 
2 students presented 2 pieces from the collection that they considered demonstrated how art can be a reflection of their society at the time. 
Finished the discussion on the appreciation of art by referring to the 2 principle processes at work when we reflect on the visual arts. The inherent comprehension process: •Process: we establish relationships between the elements in the work of art itself and stored personal knowledge (i.e. through prototypes, schemes, idealised representations/canonical references (Solso, 1996).  •We understand characters in a narrative by inferring mental states in them and these inferences are based in an intuitive (called "folk") psychology (Prosser, 2003). and the educated process where we are informed what the artist may mean  and what he/she wishes to achieve through the piece e.g. Tracey Emin's "My Bed" - a reflection of our wasteful,messy,  disposable society. ~
The progressed to discussing the formal analysis of film using Timothy Corrigans "Six Approaches to Analysing Film" (chapter in course manual)