1. Developing Visual
Literacy

2. • Relationship among words, images,
objects in the real world
• Idea of representation
• Conventions in art
• Iconography

3. Relationship among words, images,
objects in the real world

4. René Magritte. The Treason of Images. 1929.
21 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.

5. Lorna Simpson. She. 1992.
29 x 85 1/4 in.

6. Lorna Simpson. Necklines. 1989.
68 1/2 x 70 in.

7. Shirin Neshat. Rebellious
Silence, from the Women of
Allah series. 1994.
11 x 14 in.

9. Andres Serrano
Piss Christ

12. Idea of Representation
• Representational – art that portrays natural objects in
recognizable form
• Nonrepresentational – art that does not reference the
natural or objective world at all.

13. Representational
Realistic – more representative of what the eye sees
Stylize - to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as
of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
Abstract – the less a work resembles real thing in the real world.
Of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art,
emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or
geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference
to their relationship to one another.

14. Albert Bierstadt. The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak. 1863.
73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in.

15. Paul Cezanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire.

16. Sesshu Toyo. Haboku Landscape for Soen (detail). Muromachi period,
1495.
total height 58 1/4 in.

20. Apollo Belvedere (detail). Roman copy after a fourth-century BCE Greek
original.
Height of entire sculpture 7 ft. 4 in.

21. African mask, Sang tribe.

22. Naturalistic – where the artist retains apparently
realistic elements, but present the
visual world from a distinctly
personal or subjective view.

23. Albert Bierstadt. The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak. 1863.
73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in.