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• Reading Visual Arts


  Understanding and interpreting the story, emotions, and meaning conveyed
• Visual Arts


  • It is an active and creative process
  • We draw on our general knowledges, tastes and habits, our personal context to what we see and to make sense of it
• Seeing as Reading


  Invites a holistic approach, acknowledging the visual and interpretive dimensions of understanding written or visual content
• Three main points in seeing as reading

  • We see things we are actively engaging with our environment rather than simply reproducing everything within our line of sight
  • Every act of looking and seeing is also an act of not seeing-some things
  • The extent to which we see, focus on and pay attention to the world around us
• Cultural Literacy


  • Refers to a general familiarity with and an ability to use, the official and unofficial rules, values, genres, knowledge and discourse
  • Also presupposes an understanding of how to think and see in a manner that is appropriate to the imperatives of the moment
• Cultural Trajectory


  Seeing something from a cultural perspective
• Techniques of Seeing


  • Selection and Omission
  • Focus and Attention
• Selection and Omission


  The first and most important techniques of reading the visual as we pointed out that every act of looking and seeing is also an act of not seeing
• Focus


  Refers to the concentration of mental effort on a particular aspect
• Attention


  Notice taken of someone or something
• Elements that contribute to or facilitate the process of suturing the world to make a text

  • Colors
  • Shape and movement
  • Texture
  • Distance
  • Light
• Text and Genres


  Encompasses a diverse spectrum of written or spoken expression
• Reading


  A particular form of visual practice; is both an active and a creative process
• Reading the Visual


  We draw on our general and specific knowledge, tastes, habits, and personal context
• Visual Culture


  Concentration is on the interface between images and viewer rather than on artists and works
• Spectatorship


  The production of social media, especially digital media
• Visual Matter


  Considered beautiful or appealing
• Semiotics


  Analytical approach and a research methodology
• Sign


  Basic unit of communication
• Text


  Name of group of signs a collection of signs organized in a particular make meaning
• Context


  Means the environment in which a text occurs and a communication takes place
• Process skills


  • Discovering
  • Planning
  • Doing
• Discovering


  Questioning, seeing afresh, observing, comparing, imagining, discovering options, being open-minded, making associations
• Planning


  Selecting, identifying relationships, organizing, visualizing, predicting, deliberating
• Doing


  Taking action, applying knowledge, describing, testing ideas, inventing, combining, adapting, being flexible
• Pierre Bourdieu: 'The relation to the world is a relation of presence the world, of being in the world, is the sense of belonging to the world'
• Tacit Seeing


  • We see and perceive not because we are looking at the world from the outside, as it were, but because we are part of everything within our gaze
  • This everything includes our habitus (our background, tastes, tendencies, and disposition) as well as our physical aptitude and status
• Seeing as Literacy


  Developing sophisticated literacies in the various components of written language we learn the shapes, letter, we learn the look of words
• Arresting Reality


  Arrested image is most often associated with the field of photography because we photographs perfectly freeze time and motion
• Criteria for Organizing Activities

  • Arts program should be sequential, balanced and cumulative
  • Are developmentally appropriate
  • Relate to and build on understanding and skills
• Modern neurophysiology has determined that something like half the brain is dedicated to visual recognition
• Our optic nerve comprises some 800,00 fiber over 120 million rods and over million cones
• The eye focuses the image on the retina just as the camera focuses and image on film

  
• Rods


  Processing dim light
• Cones


  Processing color and bright light

  
• The photoceptors transform what we have 'captured' visually into recognizable
• Sigmund Freud: 'Seeing is an activity that is ultimately derived from touching'
• Seeing is more than touching
• Visual Perceptual Processing Categories

  • Visual Discrimination
  • Visual Figure Ground
  • Visual Closure
  • Visual Memory
  • Visual Sequential Memory
  • Visual Form Constancy
  • Visual Spatial Skills
• Visual Discrimination


  The ability to be aware of the distinctive features of forms including shape, orientation, size, and color