Beyond ‘I like It’

What makes an artwork meaningful? This talk journeys across cultures, time periods, and artistic mediums to discover how artworks speak in different visual languages, leaving audiences with simple tools to look at the world around with greater curiosity, confidence, and attention.

The aim of the session is to cultivate visual literacy; the ability to observe carefully, recognize that images are constructed rather than neutral, and appreciate how meaning emerges through the interplay of form, material, history, culture, and the viewer’s own experience. Across cave paintings, temple…