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7 Standards of Visual Literacy

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  1. Finding Images
  2. Interpret & analyze images
  3. Evaluate
  4. Use effectively
  5. Create visual media
  6. Use images ethically and cite visuals
  7. Defining image need
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Perception

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Process of gathering information through our sense, organizing and making sense of it

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Reception

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Action of processes, receiving something given, seen, or sent

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Interpretation

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Develop intellectual strategies use to interpret and understand what is seen

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What is Value Culture?

Give Example.

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Everything that is seen, produced to be seen, and the way in which it is seen and understood. It’s part of culture that communicates through visual means

Example: Painting, photography, Tv, Sculpture, Video or Digital art

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Jane Jacobs - Book - 4 Key Qualities to healthy cities

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Book: Death and life of Great American Cities

  1. Mixed Users
  2. Aged Buildings
  3. Small Blocks
  4. Population Density
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What makes a city live-able? Components/Characteristics?

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  • Various types and ages of buildings
  • High concentration and density of use
  • Uses mixed not just all one kind of thing
  • frequent streets and very few blocks
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2 Elements of art and give examples

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Visual Components of Colour, form, line, shape, space, texture and value

Example:
1. Line - Defined by a point moving in space, 2 or 3D. Descriptive, implied, or abstract

  1. Colour - Hue, value, and intensity
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2 Principles of design and examples

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The ways artists use the elements of art in a work of art, balance, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition, proportion, rhythm, variety, unity

  1. Movement - path the viewers eyes takes through work of art through liens, edges shape, color within,

Balance - Distribution of visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space

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What is copyright? what materials are covered?

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Protects works from being copied, performed, or distributed without the permission of the copyright holder, usually the author or the creator of the work, and provides exceptions for special circumstances.

Materials: Paintings, books, theatre, manuals, dictionaries, magazines.. etc

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Fair Use of Copyright

2 Examples

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Allows you to use other people’s materials for the purpose of

Example: research, private study, criticism, review or news, reporting, education

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Derivative vs. Parody (Case Study)

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Photo: Art Rogers, Puppies

Jeff Koon making a sculpture out of photo and projecting it as how own use and argued he was using Transformative design

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Renaissance

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Term first coined in France in the 19th c to look back on particular period of history that began in Italy, and reached its height throughout Europe in 15th c

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Linear Perspective

Give Example

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Arrangement in conformity with the new mathematical depiction of receding space

Example: …

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De Pictura by Alberti

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Linear Perspective…

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Cartesian Dualism

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Binary division, theorized by 17th c philosopher Rene Descartes that the mind and body are split, with the mind containing consciousness and reasoning while the body is only matter

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Impressionism

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Artistic style emerged in France, was characterized by an Emphasis on light and colour.

Impressionist work to emphasize the view of nature as unstable and changeable

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Cubism

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Part of the modern French Advant-garde and began with collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. challenged the dominant model of perspective through analytical system that broke up the perspectival space. Both form and subject matter were more challenging

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Abstract Expressionists

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Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock … works of art viewed as record of artist’s emotional intensity and physical spontaneity and gesture during painting process

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Identify a formal element of architecture

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Form, space, texture, material, line, colour

Example: Form - Eero Saariaen TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport NYC

  • Shapes made by how the material was used. Reinforced concrete poured into wooden forms, when rigid and the forms removed, it gave soaring shells
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Construction system of architecture

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Post and Lintel

One of the simplest and most universally used systems of construction, able to find it in Egypt dating back to 2,7000 and Greek Temples of the 5th and 6th century

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Johannes Itten Colour Theory

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Colour Theorist, created the 7 strategies of colour combinations and 12 colour model 
		○ Contrast of huge 
		○ Light-dark 
		○ Cool-warm 
		○ Complements 
		○ Simultaneous contrast 
		○ Contrast of saturation
		○ Contrast of extension
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Discuss one of the 7 colour contrasts

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Cool and Warm

Both physical and psychological contrast. Colour juxtaposition affects warmth and cold perception: a red-violet next to a blue will look warm, but the same red-violet next to red will look cool.

Example: Violet and Blue, Red and Violet ..

Red making violet brighter

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Representation

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The use of Images to create meaning about the world around us

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Mimesis

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Defines representation as a process of mirroring or imitating the real

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Ideology

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Shared set of values and beliefs that exist within a given society and through which individuals live out their relations to social institutions and structures

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Subject

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The available ways of being for humans in a given time period or context

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Subjective

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Something that is particular to the view of an individual, hence the opposite of objective

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Myth of Representation

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Ideological meaning of a sign that is expressed through connotatioin…

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Connotative

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Rely on cultural and historic context of the image and its viewers

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Denotative

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Refering to its literal descriptive meaning

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Ronaly Barthes and the Myth of Photographic Truth

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Studium

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From Ronald Barthes, means the common banal meaning of the photographic image

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Punctum

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From Ronald Barthes to indicate the aspects of a photograph that grabs our emotions or attention, and is felt to be uniquely personal by the individual viewer

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Surrealism

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Political movement in early 20th c that extended around the world and was expressed through literature, theater, and the visual arts, which focused on the role of the unconscious in representation and in dismantling the opposition between the real and the imaginary

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Icon

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Image or person that refers to something beyond its individual components, something or someone that acquired symbolic significance

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Iconograpby

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Study of symbols and themes in works of art

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Erwin Panofsky

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Studies in Iconography

woman and man double portrait painting thing

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Semiotics

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Theory of signs, sometimes called semiology which is concerned with the ways in which things (words, images, and objects) are vehicles for meaning

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Barthes: Sign and Signified

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  • Barthes BUILT ON Saussure’s model and was interested in the cultural significance of semiotics (Saussure was more interested in how meaning was created in language)
    ○ Signifier = image/sound/word
    ○ Signified=Mental concept
    And together, signifier + Signified = sign
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Peirce: Types of Signs

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Pierce theorized that languages and though are processes of sign interpretation. In Peircee’s semiotic model, the sign is the word or image, not the relationship between the image and meaning, and the interpretant is the interpreted meaning, with the object itself separate from the sign and the interpretant.

Symbolic - Don’t resemble the object itself
Iconic - Resemble the object itself
Indexical - Essential link between signifier and signified

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Aesthetics

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Branch of phil that’s concerned with judgements of sentiments and taste, it can also be used to mean the phil of art, which considers arts meanings and value in light of standards such as beauty and truth

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Abstract Expressionism

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Highly abstract but comapred to the geometric abstraction of cubist paintings, they appear less formally organized and more spontaneous.

First used to describe expressionist art in Germany, in period after WWI, then became associated with artists including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock after WWII through 1950s.

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Connoisseur

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Person who’s particularly skilled at discerning quality in particular art. Class based concept that had been traditionally used to refer to those with “discriminating” taste that is those of upper class status

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Kitsch

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Art literature judged to have little or no aesthetic value, yet that value is precisely because of its status in evoking the class standards of bad taste

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High and Low Art

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Taste

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Cultural theory refering to the shared artistic and cultural values of particular social community or individual

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Sublime

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Aesthetic theory, specifically int he work of 18th c theorist Edmun Burke, that sets out to evoke experiences so momentous that they inspire intense veneration in the viewer or listening

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Interpellation

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The process which ideology addresses the individual that is ideologies “address” people and offer them a particular identity which they are encouraged to accept

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Intertextuality

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The referencing of on text within another, in popular culture it refers to incorporation of meanings of one text within another in a reflexive fashion

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Habitus

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to describe unconscious dispositions, strategies of classification and tendencies that are part of an individual’s sense of taste and preferences for cultural consumption (Popularized by French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu)

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Marxist Theory

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Originating with the 19th c, theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this theory combines political economy and social critique. Marxism is on the one hand a general theory of human history, in which the role of history and a particular theory of the development, reproduction and transformation of capitalism that identifies workers as the potential agents of history

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False Consciousness

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In Marxist theory, the process by which the real economic imbalances of the dominant social system get hidden and ordinary citizens come to believe in the perfection of the system that in fact opresses them

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Dada

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  • Intellectual movement that began in Zurich in 1916 and later flourished in France with such figures as Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Dada defined by the poet Tristan Tzara as state of mind and was primarily ani-art in its sensibilities
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Hegemoney

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Concept most associated with Italian Marxist Theorist Antonio Gramsci, who rethought how power works in traditional Marxist theories of ideology

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