READING VISUALLY

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READING VISUALLY

• What Is In the Details

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Reading Visually

• Can you tell whats happening if there are no
  words?

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Two Layers of Reading the Visual

• What does the picture present?
• Icons
• Tone
• Background versus foreground
• The frame
• What is the the point of view/perspective from
  which the creator of the visual presentation is
  seeing it?
• What is the lens?
• As an audience member, how do you think that lens
  influences the way the artist sees his subject?

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Iconography

• Can you think of any icons? What are they?

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Tone Use of Light and Darkness

• How does the darkness influence the tone?

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Tone Use of Light and Darkness

• How does the light influence the tone?

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Tone Color

• How does the artist Mark Rothko use color to
  influence the tone?

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Background vs. Foreground

• What gets emphasized? Why did the artist decide
  to place it there?

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Framing

• What is kept in the frame? What is cut out of the
  frame? Why might a cartoonist want to control
  what goes in and what is kept out?

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The Lens is The Renaissance Worldview

• An interest in recovering/studying Latin and
  Greek literary, historical, oratorical texts
• A search for realism and human emotion in art
• The development of linear perspective in painting
• The practice of studying and improving the
  secular and worldly, both through the revival of
  ideas from antiquity, and through novel
  approaches to thought

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Application The techniques the Lens