The four Frames

Question 1

What is subjective frame?

Answer 1

the personal psychological experience

• describe your personal response to the artwork
• how other people (artist, audience) feel about the artwork
• What artist was trying to express when created the work

Question 2

What is structural frame?

Answer 2

communication, system of signs

• way artist structures the art elements (tone, colour, shape, perspective, texture, line etc) to create their artwork
• also relates to the signs, symbols and codes used by artists to create visual meaning

Question 3

What is cultural frame?

Answer 3

Cultural and social meaning

• artists social and cultural environment and they way it affects their artworks
  e. g. religion, politics, ethnic background, gender, tech, economics, mass media

Question 4

What is Postmodern frame?

Answer 4

Ideas that challenge the mainstream

• describe how work questions the accepted long beliefs about art and artists
• if artist borrowed work of others and whether they used irony, parody and pastiche to challenge or mock the status quo