Monday, 5 October 2009

6. Audience, and Audience Interpretation of the Work


It's very interesting to look into audiences and how they interpret different pieces of work. It's interesting to see all the different reactions that the works receive. Are they positive or negative reactions? I think it's good that people have their own opinions and reactions towards the pieces of work because it shows that they’re not afraid to express their feelings about it and that they don’t have to copy other people’s reactions. If the artist created his piece of work with just one intentional meaning behind it, he then,without realising might have created lots of other different meanings which the audience read into. At the Tate Modern, Robert Therrien’s Table and four chairs was a giant dinner table with big chairs in a big room, and some people were looking at it in silence with slightly confused faces but others were turning this piece into a joke by saying, “Imagine eating your dinner of that!”. It was good to see this because I think it doesn’t matter that we all have different perspectives on the work as we’re all individuals and shouldn't be looking at work with the same feelings and opinions.

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