VISUAL LITERACY:

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VISUAL LITERACY DESCRIBING THE WORLD
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To what extent do we confuse words and images?
To what extent do words create stereotypes?

• Recognizing what you like (what you see) and why
  you like it is called visual literacy. Ideas
  to consider 1) the relationship between words,
  images and objects in the real world 2) the
  idea of representation 3) the distinction
  among form and content in art 4) conventions
  in art and 5) iconography.

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Using this image, define representational art.
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Define abstract art.
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In what ways are these two images different?
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• What of these two would you characterize as
  abstract? Which is non-objective?

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Define non-respresentationl art. How would you
describe this work of art?
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FORM is everything physical and visible in a work
of art, and is covered in the chapters on the
elements and principles of art.
CONTENT equals subject matter plus meaning. What
is the subject matter in this painting? What is
the meaning?
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What do you see here that might suggest that the
meaning is deeper than what the subject matter
suggests?
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What is the subject matter in this painting?
What is the meaning? Why is this different from
the Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper?
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What is depicted here? What does this suggest?
How has the WAY the artist has shown the subject
above determined HOW we understand what it is?
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What is shown here? What visual clues help
you determine subject matter and meaning? In
what specific ways is this different from the
other two works of art?
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• Discuss the difference between subject matter and
  meaning in this painting by Frida Kahlo.

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• What would you characterize as most important
  about this piece by Monet -- form or content?

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What is meant by artistic conventions?
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• Explain what this means
• When we see the Baule mask only through the
  conventions of our own culture, we fail to
  understand its meaning and function, and
  denigrate the African culture as well.

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The study or description of visual images or
symbolic systems is called iconography. What
else can we learn by examining the details?
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• How is this Buddha statue different from the
  typical Western understanding of the Buddha?
• How is it typical of the Buddhist understanding
  of images of the Buddha?

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Issues of iconography and cultural conventions.
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• What do these images tell us about artistic
  conventions? Compare with the Byzantine image in
  the last slide.

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• Explain some of the conventions and iconography
  at work in this stained glass window from the
  Chartres Cathedral. How does art give power to
  the ideas expressed?

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What are visual conventions? Above, Treaty
Signed at Medicine Creek Lodge, by John Taylor,
1867, sharply contrasts with the next imagehow
do you account for that?
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The above image, painted by Howling Wolf in
1875-78, is also called Treaty Signed at
Medicine Creek Lodge. Explain the difference.
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• Native American playing cards, c. 1880.

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• The coming together of cultural conventions