Frames: There are four frames. Each frame sets up different relationship between the agency of the conceptual framework meaning the artist, artworks, the audience and the world. The four frames are;
The Subjective Frame: Discusses the work from your point of view. How does the work make you feel and what meaning do you take from the work.
The Structual Frame: Discusses the work based on it's physical elements and the procress of making the work. This frame looks at the materials used, how the artist made the work, the signs and symbols within the work. It's always good to remember the structual frame is based more on the facts then opinion.
The Cultural Frame: Discusses the culture and social meanings within the work.What type of audience and from what background its meant to view the work. What time and place was the work created, what was the influeces of the creation of the work.
The Post-modern Frame: Discusses how this work challenges the mainstream notion of art. How does it turn away or progress the art world and what we believe art to be. Does it challeneges your ideas of art by using practices that are unusal for the art world e.g. humour, appropriation.
Patrcia Piccinini from the Subjective Frame
Patricia Piccinini’s work ‘The Young Family’ gives you an immediate eerily disturbing feeling upon witnessing such a realistic portrayal of a hybrid creature, which are half man and half animal of some sort. The ugliness immediately makes you shudder without controllable thought and an experience of overwhelming guilt soon follows. One is not used to seeing a creature with such human life texture and colour, at first glance, you would think the creature was a life. However once inspecting the work you start to see the similarities between a human and the creature. You are reminded of a mother looking after her children just like this creature is doing in the artwork and begin to experience not only a sense of guilt but empathy. It begins to make oneself question the boundaries of science and biotechnologies and whether growing human organs in another species such as pigs is ethical. Is the future of science in these hybrid creatures? That is certainly what Piccinini is suggesting, however leaving the question whether this is right or wrong to our own individual verdict.
Activity
Choose a frame to write a paragraph about your own artwork. Try to answer as many questions as you can within your paragraph. Then go to the 'Your Artwork' page and upload a photo/ video of your artwork and your paragraph and display your art to the world.
