Art can be used as a power struggle because it can appeal to those who see it that aren't educated enough to find the facts through reading. By the example of the church they can show images and painting to teach those who could not read. witch in that time was a lot of individuals, thus those who could paint could control the thoughts and power of the minds of those who could not find the true facts. It was a took because those who couldn't pain couldn't spread the word of "truth" religious of political.
Painting is like math or reading because it used a series of symbols to convey a message. the viewer has to see the symbols that of a math problem or of letters to make up words and put that all together to crate or understand the purpose of the art work.
Painting can be a social act because you can control the thought of the viewer with the concept that you show thought that of the signs and symbols that you show within painting. It is not only a social activity can also be political but even then it can be neither.
Artist engage in the world of signs by knowing the language of art and then taking that and reconstructing that into there own message. By creating a new message or idea with that they then taking the already know symbols and compare or contrast them with something completely different. They can take those symbols and create there own formula or make there own poem.
We need to interpret all works of art within different context because we are decoding the symbols that are created by the artist. We have to explore all the options and paths that the artist could be trying to explore with us as viewers. If we just taking the work of art based off of the first concept that comes to mind based off appearance we may be missing the majority of witch the artist is really trying to covey with their symbols.
Every interpretation my have a point to it but not every interpretation is valid. Someone can easily be seeing the symbols and take it the wrong way that intended of the artist.
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