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FORM
Elements and Principles
Image Development
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MEDIUM
Process
Materials
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CONTENT
Subject Matter
Theme/ Concept
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CONTEXT
When you look at a painting in the nave of a church, with stained glass windows and prayer candles and parishioners kneeling
in the pews, it's quite unlike viewing that painting in a museum, where it is surrounded by informative wall texts, strolling
visitors, a cafe and a gift shop. Go a step further, and imagine the same painting on a postcard that you take away, removing
it to yet another container. When you see this painting reproduced on a T-shirt or mouse-pad, and think about how it has
traveled from its original context. Bertolt Brecht said of art that has been reproduced and transformed into a commodity:
" ...it will no longer stir any memory of the thing it once designated."
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Setting
Reception and Interpretation
Site/ Location
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Denotations and Connotations
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