When completing step three interpret the artwork what will you seek to understand the most

• Artworks are always about something.

Subject matter + Medium + Form + Context = Meaning

• To interpret a work of art is to understand it in language.

Feelings are guides to interpretation.

• The critical activities of describing, analyzing, interpreting, judging, and

theorizing about works of art are interrelated and interdependent.

• Artworks attract multiple interpretations and it is not the goal of interpretation

to arrive at single, grand, unified, composite interpretations.

There is a range of interpretations any artwork will allow.

• Meanings of artworks are not limited to what their artists intended them

to mean.

• Interpretations are not so much right, but are more or less reasonable,

convincing, informative, and enlightening.

• Interpretations imply a worldview.

• Good interpretations tell more about the artwork than they tell about the

interpreter.

• The objects of interpretation are artworks, not artists.

• All art is in part about the world in which it emerged.

• All art is in part about other art.

• Good interpretations have coherence, correspondence, and inclusiveness.

• Interpreting art is an endeavor that is both individual and communal.

• Some interpretations are better than others.

• The admissibility of an interpretation is ultimately determined by a community

of interpreters and the community is self-correcting.

• Good interpretations invite us to see for ourselves and continue on our

own.