User:LBird BASc/sandbox/ATK/Seminar6/Evidence/Art as Evidence

Introduction
Both positivist and interpretivist insight

art - culture, values, sentiments, materials accessible, attitude towards art

Scientific Analysis
Analysis of the chemical compositions used in artworks can firstly

Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

polarized light microscopy (PLM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence (XRF), scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis, Fourier transform infrared microspectrometry (FTIR) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the last decade, Raman microscopy has become a common tool thanks to its ability to non-destructively characterize pigments, minerals, and a variety of polymers

Subject Matter
Many aspects of the period the artwork was created can be derived from the subject matter of the works.

- medieval - religious

industrial revolution - romanticism

realism - french revolution - art becomes accessible to the rising middle class

dada

Stylistic Choices
movement

renaissance

romanticism

dada