Finding Meaning in Visual Art with Paul Kidder

Paintings and sculptures may strike us as beautiful, interesting, or curious, but they

offer more to us when we can find in them deep sources of human meaning. This slide lecture

will explore three different kinds of meaning in art: (1) narrative meaning, wherein the art

communicates by connecting to story; (2) morphic meaning, wherein the art communicates

through suggestive forms rather than representations; and (3) contextual meaning, wherein

the art communicates through the context of its creation. Looking at examples from the