A Painting Exhibition as a Personal Multimodal Diary: Example of the Facebook Page “Guy De Montlaur” Cover Image

A Painting Exhibition as a Personal Multimodal Diary: Example of the Facebook Page “Guy De Montlaur”
A Painting Exhibition as a Personal Multimodal Diary: Example of the Facebook Page “Guy De Montlaur”

Author(s): Marina Zagidullina
Subject(s): Media studies, Visual Arts, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, History of Art
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: Abstract Expressionism; Art-Criticism; Art-History; Explanatory Strategy; Multimodality; Participatory Culture; Privacy/Publicity Boundaries; User-Generated Content;

Summary/Abstract: Technological facilitations of current communication exchange are considered as a basement of emerging media forms. For example, Facebook allows users to publish multimodal content and to organize it in long-lasting projects. In the “Guy de Montlaur” Facebook-page example, one can see how the classic format of a painting exhibition can be combined with a “personal diary”. Three aspects of such a form will be analyzed: (1) regularity (as a basement of periodicity); (2) principles of the choice of paintings (art-historian aspect); (3) principles of comment (art-critical aspect). In this example, the mechanisms of multilayered communication can be identified. The research approach can be fruitfully applied to other emerging forms and formats of user communication.

  • Issue Year: 8/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 202-210
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English