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We do not need to be gifted artists to interpret and appreciate powerful images. This guide helps us to understand the visual techniques used by artist to communicate meaning to their audiences.
We do not need to be gifted artists to interpret and appreciate powerful images. This guide helps us to understand the visual techniques used by artist to communicate meaning to their audiences.
Image (painting, photograph, drawing, sketch, poster) - a visual text which communicates meaning to an audience.
Artist (creator, composer, painter, photographer) - someone who creates a visual text.
Viewer (audience) - a person who experiences a visual text.
Visual technique (visual device) - a specific way for an artist to more effectively communicate meaning to the viewer.
Subject - the primary 'thing' presented to the viewer in the image. (For example, the subject of portrait is the person who is being painted.)
Introduction
Introduction
Due to their unique visual nature, images can communicate meaning quickly and evoke powerful moods. After all, we grew up looking at the world around us long before we started reading or writing about it. That said, there is a big difference between the ability of a skilled artist, and an unskilled artist, to tell a story in a visual medium (I should know—I'm a terrible artist).
Fortunately, this guide is designed to help us learn the language of visual art so that we can speak and write about images with greater certainty. And maybe, with enough confidence, we can learn to create our own images that communicate meaning in interesting and evocative ways.
You can move through the entries in this guide sequentially or navigate using the menu.
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