Features from Qatar – artwork
Date
2015
Location
Qatar
Institution/Event
Mathaf museum /CHSS-HBKU
Summary
Describing art requires that you read the visual elements in the picture to elicit the information that allows one to understand the messages that the artist wants to portray.
Art is more than a story told through a medium. It is matter and form, technique and feeling.
Elements such as composition, proportion, light and depth, color and stroke, engagement and creative vibe will impact our senses, our perceptions, our feelings and what we take away when we leave.
How to capture so much is just a few words? How to be faithful to the message and the expression of the artwork, while serving the receiver? Is this where audiodescription become an art form in itself?
Publication
Neves, Josélia. 2016. “Enriched Descriptive Guides: a case for collaborative meaning-making in museums”.Cultus: the Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication 9, pp. 137-154.