When I was younger, I found it easy to find things that interested me about artworks. But what about the student who begins a lesson completely uninterested? How can a teacher guide a student to ask and answer questions about an artwork? Upon reading Terry Barrett's book Interpreting Art, he created a way for any person to seek answers to some questions to lead to the artworks meaning.
Barrett's formula consisted of combining subject matter (how one would describe the piece) , medium (what the piece is made out of), form (what its properties are), and context (purpose/history) to get the outcome of the meaning of the piece.
In class, we used a Bloom's Taxonomy chart to answer questions about an artwork. I feel that this forced the viewer to ask questions about a piece of art. It categorized different thought processes and allowed for an organized and better understanding of the piece. This incorporates Barrett's formula in that all of the different categories of Barrett's formula can fall under Bloom's Taxonomy Chart.
These questions are a good starting point to talking about any artwork and always can generate a conversation about a work of art at any age.
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