The process associated with the comprehension of art

27 Setembro 2017, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussion of art as a reflection of society based on the Art History Timeline in the manual.

Presentation of the cognitive processes associated with the comprehension of art.

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).

narrative: 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).

levels of coprehension according to the Biggs Solos taxonomy applied to the painting: Dorothea Tanning  - The Philosophers - 1952

1)PRE-STRUCTURAL – “It’s a painting.”

2)UNI-STRUCTURAL - ”People at a table”

3)MULTI-STRUCTURAL – ”People at a table. Food is served. Two are making a toast””

4) RELATIONAL  -”It’s a rather enigmatic scene that resembles a kind of meal. While two characters seem to make a toast against the shadows in the background, another doesn't share it.”

5) ABSTRACT – “(…) the wife of the famous painter Max Ernst  being the author, the scene might represent  something about their relationship (…)”

Nest class will be a guided visit to the Gulbenkian Museum - the Founder's collection