Answer:
• 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.
