Women and Dog
By Marisol Escobar
What I found more relevant in this unit is that I was confused what is really abstract work. I thought that nonobjective art was abstract art. Now I have better understanding of what abstract work is, even though there are times that the interpretation could be borderline between nonobjective and abstract as an example.
Also iconographic images were very intriging because if we are not familira with the culture, customes or background in a certain period of time, our interpretation of the art work could be totally wrong and ethnocentric. As what happened to me in "The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini". I thought that the woman on the painting was pregnant, I never would have known that the scene could have been either an engagement or wedding ceremony. Well, know I know that customs in the 15th century were very different.
So far I think that I'm understanding the material in the chapters but I would certainly need more practice to understand art work that have two meanings, like abstract and nonobjective at the same time for example.
