1. Visual Literacy Skills Practice
4- Ability to understand compositional elements
Compositional (visual) elements include:
• Color: "Colorful Head Covers Aid Stabled Traditions"
1- How many colors does the seller have for the head covers?
2- Are they cold colors, warm colors or a mixture of the both?
3- Which culture do you remember when you look at these colors?
4- Is it the same impact you would feel if the photo was colored by black
and white?
• Shape: "Totally Solid but With Great Hidden Soul"
1- which one of the three components (the pottery, the books and the wall
picture) have the biggest size and which one of them have the smallest
size?
2- Compare between the pottery in the photograph and the one made in
Oman from the aspect of the final shape.
3- What geometric shapes you can notice in the photograph? and where?
4- How many rectangles can you see in the photo? two, seven or none?

2. • Rhythm:"Religions IndicationsAround the World"
1-Contrast is not about colors only. So, what kind of contrast is obvious in
the photo?
2-Does the flow and the arrangement of columns affect the way you are
looking at the photo?
3-what does putting the cross on the top of the building tell us?
4- What is the overall feeling you feel when you 'read' this photo?
• Pattern: "Detection of Islamic Amazing Art"
1-Try to figure out the 'five basic establishments' that have produce this
Photo.
2-Which of textual, geometric, animal and plant shapes did not appear in
the photo?
3-Which culture do you remember when you look at this pattern? And
from where do you think the photographer have he/she take it?
4- Do you think the designer of this pattern did grant success in choosing
the right colors to protruding the final look of the pattern?

3. • Texture: "Strong Humanity Building Above Rocky Mountains"
1-What are the two main elements in the photo?And what kind of surfaces
are they?
2-Give two examples similar or near to the surface features of the
mountains and the road.
3-Have you ever see something similar in Oman? Where?
4- Isn't it an excellent example for the accomplishment that happen in
Oman after 1970?
• Shadow: "Zoomed Mind!"
1-Specify both of dark and bright area.
2-What does zooming the light on the little girl and the rabbit tell us?
3-Doesn't the dark area represent another visual element other than the
shadow? What is that element?
4- Imagine that there was light on the little girl more than on the rabbit.
That would tell us that it is whose turn?
A. The little girl
B. The rabbit

4. • Flow of movement: "Unforgettable Moments!"
1-What do the four kids do? And where?
2-Do they seem like they are following an arranged way of playing?
3-Describe the impact of the lake on the overall atmosphere of the photo.
4-Do you agree it do not look as play time but fight time?!
• Harmony: "Mysterious Sadness"
1-Three, less or more elements are there in the photo?
2-looking at the arrangement of them, are they convenient with each
other?
3-Do you think moving the bird from its place would give the same
wonderful seen obvious in the photo now?
4- Think about different colors for the three elements that would give even
better harmony.

5. • Scale: "Eat the Amount Keeping You Alive"
1-Specify the biggest and the smallest element in the photo.
2-Without having the finger in the photo would you be able to know how
small the food is?
3-Doesn’t the three kinds of food have another scales itself?
4-Do the photo support its title? How?
• Foreground and background: "Inspiring Fingers"
1-Specify both the foreground and background.
2-What is happening in this photo?
3-What is the thing that surround the woman in the photo?
4- Do you agree the photo would be dull without the woman?
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Name:AHLAM OTHMAN AL-KHAIARI
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