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The Artist’s Eye

The Artist’s Eye. Image Grammar Chapter 2. Overview. Create a “motion picture” in the minds of the reader through the usage of nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases, similes and metaphors. Helps students who write with images of stick figures turn their pieces into Van-Gogh portraits.

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The Artist’s Eye

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  1. The Artist’s Eye Image Grammar Chapter 2

  2. Overview Create a “motion picture” in the minds of the reader through the usage of nouns, verbs, prepositional phrases, similes and metaphors. Helps students who write with images of stick figures turn their pieces into Van-Gogh portraits.

  3. Painting with Detail Professional writers paint with specific details. They use a camera to zoom in close on powerful images.

  4. Nouns and Verbs The use of specific nouns and verbs breathes life into cold corpse images. Verbs project motion pictures.

  5. Nouns and Verbs Stick figure: “Matthew had barely stepped into his house before Amos, his father’s personal servant had told him that his father wished to see him in the study right away.” This passage uses very few specific nouns and verbs.

  6. Nouns and Verbs Van-Gogh: “The clear, blue waves gently lapped against the large wooden ship.” In this passage, we see noun phrases like “clear, blue waves”. We hear the waves as they “lap against the boat.”

  7. Prepositional Phrases Prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. Stick figure: “The solider looked insane.” There are no prepositions, so there is no sound to this image.

  8. Prepositional Phrases Van-Gogh: “And with his soiled and disordered dress, his red and inflamed feathers surmounted by the dingy ray with its spot of blood, his wildly swinging rifle and banging accouterments, he looked to be an insane soldier.” These phrases add more details, color, and sound to the image.

  9. Similes and Metaphors Generate an image-webbing pattern in the reader’s mind, where added power comes from one image linking to another and to another. Stick Figure: “The lake had a mist on its surface.” Does not encourage the reader’s imagination.

  10. Similes and Metaphors Van-Gogh: “A pure white mist crept over the water like breath upon a mirror.”

  11. Activities

  12. Why Teach Students About the Artist’s Eye? Twentieth-century readers, transformed by film and television, are used to “seeing” stories. Therefore, the reading experience is mostly visual. Specific, concrete images in writing help students create movies in their minds to process the information.

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