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Visual Literacy
By Don L. F. NilsenAnd Alleen Pace Nilsen
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 WritingPictographs
cave drawings () <> [] {} *Chinese, Japanese
Ideographs ! @ # $ % & ? . Chinese, Japanese
RunesMagic, SpellsNorth Germanic
SyllabaryISU, FUNEM?S, VFM.FUNEX?S, VFX.OK, LFMNX
LE, CD puppies?L, MNO puppies.OSMR puppies.CMPN?
Japanese Kanji
Phonemic AlphabetBDFHJKLMNPRSTVWYZSpanish, Latin
Morphophonemic AlphabetSee 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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Magritte’s Window
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Visual Aptness
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Quixote’s Mind
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Visual Distortion
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Picasso’s “Les Dmoiselles d’Avignon”
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Visual Impossibility
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Escher’s 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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LANGUAGE VS. IMAGE
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INVISIBLE BOX
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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 Sendak’s 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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Magritte’s “Tree with Ax”
Visual Perspective:Kissing the Sphinx
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Visual Repetition
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Magritte’s 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
Visual Future: Emoji
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Emoji Keyboard