The document outlines a framework for visual analysis used in art education that can be applied to religious education. It includes the Conceptual Framework, which examines relationships within the art world, and four Frames - Subjective, Structural, Cultural, and Postmodern - that act as filters to analyze images. The framework guides students to consider things like symbols, context, and questioning conventions when pulling together a formal response analyzing an image.

1. A Cross-Curricular
Framework for
Visual Analysis
(Art does RE – Boom!)

2. Visual Analysis in RE
(Using the Visual Arts Framework of Analysis)
• There are 2 x ‘Formulas’ that Art Students
apply to an image when attempting to
analyse it.
• 1. The Conceptual Framework
• 2. The Frames

3. Visual Analysis in RE
(Using the Visual Arts Framework of Analysis)
1. The Conceptual Framework
Is a network of relationships that exist between the key players in the Artworld

4. Visual Analysis in RE
(Using the Visual Arts Framework of Analysis)
2. The Frames
1. SUBJECTIVE
2. STRUCTURAL
3. CULTURAL
4. POSTMODERN
Like Debono’s hats, the Frames act
as a filter through which to judge
an image.

5. Here’s the
image …..
Let’s
analyse
it the
‘Art Way’

6. Conceptual Framework
It’s all about
Relationships!

7. Frames:
- Subjective
Like DeBono’s hats we look
through a filter
• Emotion
• Personal Experience
• Intuition
• Dreams
• Imagination

8. Frames:
- Structural
• Symbols
• Composition
• Materials
• Techniques
• Formal Elements

9. Frames:
- Cultural
• Time & Place
• Identity
• Personal
• National
• Gender
• Racial
• Culture
• Social
• Religious
• Political
• Economic
• Philisophical etc

10. Frames:
- Postmodern
• Parody
• Irony
• Ambiguity
• Paradox
• Appropriation
• Questioning
Convention
• Use of
Non-traditional
materials or techniques

11. Finally, students would
pull their notes together
in a formal response:
The image Jesus on
Thyface, Date, by Artist
Challenges many
conventional
interpretations of Christ.
Synthesize:
• Conceptual
Framework notes
• Relevant Frames
notes