Visual Elements
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YouTube Playlist: KQED Art SchoolA series of videos explaining visual elements like line and space
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Artist's ToolkitCheck out this interactive toolkit that teaches and then lets you practice what you learned!
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Vocabulary ListOberlin's vocabulary list for elements and principles of art
Analyzing Images
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Library of Congress: Analyzing Visual Media Worksheets
Check out the materials Library of Congress created to help you analyze everything from feature films to political cartoons! Incorporating this into your assignments helps foster primary source literacy, information literacy, and visual literacy! -
Breaking Down an Image
This Writing Commons page shares tips for considering audience, context, purpose, tone, arrangement, text, and color!
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Reading Images
by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0333765400Publication Date: 2000Is seeing a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? Reading Images draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different theoretical positions offered by psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The anthology opens up a dialogue between seeing and the seen, text and image, theory and practice. By discussing a range of visual material, from advertising and architecture to painting and photography, it crosses generic and disciplinary boundaries and suggests ways in which vision and visuality are related to questions of textuality, subjectivity, race and gender.
