1 / 38

Developing Visual Literacy

Developing Visual Literacy. Chapter 2 – Sayre 7th edition. Visual Literacy. the ability to use “a descriptive vocabulary, a set of terms, phrases, concepts, and approaches that will allow you to think [speak or write] critically about visual images”. Let’s start at the beginning….

ava-gillespie
Télécharger la présentation

Developing Visual Literacy

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Developing Visual Literacy Chapter 2 – Sayre 7th edition

  2. Visual Literacy • the ability to use “a descriptive vocabulary, a set of terms, phrases, concepts, and approaches that will allow you to think [speak or write] critically about visual images”

  3. Let’s start at the beginning… • Subject matter – what the image literally depicts • Content – what the image means

  4. Form and Content • form – what we see…the total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work…including materials, color, shape, line “overall structure of a work of art”

  5. Form

  6. Form

  7. Content

  8. We can go even deeper with content- iconography

  9. What are these? Geographic Icons The Alamo and The Statue of Liberty

  10. What are these? Computer Icons Microsoft Windows and Word, AOL IM

  11. ICONOGRAPHY • Iconography = the symbolic meaning of signs and subjects… • Iconography/Symbolism carries the deepest levels of meaning. • Each culture and period has its own system of meaning for images.

  12. We’ll use this one as our prime example. Fig 39/2-21

  13. Gender Iconography

  14. window vs. bed broom green dress and pose

  15. Cindy Sherman1970’s Fig 719/21-32

  16. Social Rank Iconography

  17. clothing

  18. canopy bed oranges from Spain

  19. Oba Benin Kingdom 19th century Coral beaded necklace and crown Mudfish feet – Olokun Fig 378/13-17

  20. Religious Iconography

  21. shoes, dog, prayer beads, lit candle

  22. Budda 13th century Japan Fig 38/2-20

  23. We’ve already seen quite a bit of art in the course. We were already looking at the next concept and didn’t even know it!

  24. How a work of art relates to the “real” world… “describes how closely, or not, the image resembles visual reality itself” 1 – representational art (a.k.a. objective or figurative art) 2 – abstract art 3 – nonrepresentational art (a.k.a. nonobjective or nonfigurative art)

  25. representational art • Depicts the appearance of things as they appear in the natural world • Re-presents things from the natural world in a way that appears realistic • “portrays natural objects in recognizable form”

  26. Fig 5/1-6

  27. Fig 30/2-8

  28. abstract art • abstract art – art that depicts things from the natural world in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways • “does not try to duplicate the world exactly but instead reduces the world to its essential qualities”

  29. Fig 113/5-29

  30. nonrepresentational art • Nonrepresentational art – presents visual forms with no specific references (i.e. things in the natural world) outside themselves • “does not refer to the natural or objective world at all” • “the content of nonobjective art is its form” but “all forms…suggest meaning”

  31. Fig 33/2-15

  32. Fig 701/21-16

  33. Categorization Exercise • Determine whether the work of art is considered… 1 – representational art 2 – abstract art 3 – nonrepresentational art

  34. Image # 1

  35. Image # 2

  36. Image # 3

  37. Image # 4

More Related