Visual Literacy

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Visual Literacy

• By Don L. F. Nilsen
• And Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Visual Past Egyptian Hieroglyphics The Rosetta
StoneQUESTION What is a cartouche and why is it
important?
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Cartouche of Thutmose III
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics are alphabetic, not
pictographic.
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The History of Writing

• Pictographs
• cave drawings
• () ltgt
• Chinese, Japanese
• Ideographs
• ! _at_ ? .
• Chinese, Japanese
• Runes
• Magic, Spells
• North Germanic
• Syllabary
• ISU, FUNEM?
• S, VFM.
• FUNEX?
• S, VFX.
• OK, LFMNX

• LE, CD puppies?
• L, MNO puppies.
• OSMR puppies.
• CMPN?
• Japanese Kanji
• Phonemic Alphabet
• BDFHJKLMNPRSTVWYZ
• Spanish, Latin
• Morphophonemic Alphabet
• See next slide

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The letters in a morphophonemic
alphabetrepresent meanings (morphology) as well
as sounds (phonology)

• Therefore, unrelated words are spelled
  differently even though they are pronounced the
  same
• cite-sight-site, marry-Mary-merry,
  pair-pare-pear, there-their-they're
• And related words are spelled the same even
  though they are pronounced differently
• CONSONANTS act-action, critic-criticize,
  medicine-medication, part-partial, rite-ritual,
  seize-seizure
• VOWELS nation-national, obscene-obscenity,
  sign-signature, go-gone
• SUFFIXES cats, dogs, horses / jumped, died,
  heated
• HISTORICAL PRESERVATIONS knight, hôtel

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• Visual Ambiguities

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Letters vs. Numbers Literacy
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• Visual Anachronism

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Anachronism
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• Visual Analogies

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Alleen Nilsen Friends
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• Visual Antithesis

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Magrittes Window
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• Visual Aptness

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Quixotes Mind
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• Visual Distortion

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Picassos Les Dmoiselles dAvignon
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• Visual Impossibility

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Eschers Waterfall
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• Visual Metaphors

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Skeleton Words in English
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• Visual Orientation
• Upside-Down
• Sideways

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Frog or Horse?
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• Visual Paradoxes

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Paradoxical Colors
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Paradoxical Circles
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Trapezoid Room
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• Visual Parodies

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Parody of Maurice Sendaks Where The Wild Things
Are

• With
• Bill Cosby
• George Lopez
• Ray Romano
• Margaret Cho
• Brad Garrett and
• Bill Engvall
• As Wild Things

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Diego Velazquez Las Meninas
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Pablo Picasso Las Meninas
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• Visual Personification

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Magrittes Tree with Ax
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Visual PerspectiveKissing the Sphinx
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• Visual Repetition

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Magrittes Bowler Hats
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• Visual Subtlety

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Animal Face
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• Visual Symbols

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Arrows
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Ribbons
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Visual Future Emoji
Emoji Keyboard ?