Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Topics, Terms and People for Test #1, Spring 2015

Test Date, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015
Additions and deletions to this list may be made up to 10:00 pm the night before a test.


Vocab:
Guernica
Iconography
Trompe-l’oeil
Minstrel
Spectacle
Symbol
Attribute
Convention
Culture
Perception
Content
Metaphor
Arnolfini Wedding Portrait
Genre
Gaze
Panofsky’s Intrinsic Meaning (or Content)
Carlisle Industrial School
Fort Marion
Exotic


Be prepared to do a Factual Image Analysis.
Be prepared to do a a Formal Image Analysis (color, line direction, line quality shape, symmetry, asymmetry, space, scale, focal point).
Be prepared to do a Perception Analysis.
Be prepared to clearly state your thoughts and support.
Be prepared to use visual culture terms to discuss your thoughts. 

Class Discussion and Topics (will prepare you for test):
Why we need/want/make icons
Why we look
Why others want us to look
Formal Elements of Art and Design (line direction, scale, focal point, color)
Visual propaganda (advertising)
How perception varies across cultures and time.









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