The document discusses foreground, background, and point of view in visual art, literature, and perception. Foreground refers to elements closest to the viewer that catch attention, while background consists of farther elements providing context. Point of view describes the perspective and position from which one sees or experiences something. Together these concepts shape how we perceive and interpret visual compositions and written works through different lenses. The document advocates enjoying art from various perspectives rather than one alone.

2. They (Foreground, Background and Point of
View) bound with visual perception
through multi-angles. (Pope 208)

3. 1. Thing in a
distance you
hardly aware of
2. Position where
you see the
product
3. Thing catching
your attention
(closest to you)
• Point of view
• Background
• Foreground

4.  Perspective in Art
and Architecture
 Psychology of
visual perception
Way of seeing ~ way of saying (causal relation)

5.  Language modern psychological terms, is the
primary symbolic system through which we
differentiate and categorize the worlds within
and around us.
 Lacan, Subject’s entry into language is the
primary condition for the perception of
difference.
 Words = expression and repression

6. Recognize background, foreground and share
your point of view.
Hunger Games

7. New critics and Formalist’s concept
 Foreground=literature=primary text
 Background = society/history=context
Prefer to get pleasure from art product in their ways
Marxists
Feminist
Post colonial critics

8. 1. Foreground
Background
2. Mona Lisa is seen as
a wife of rich merchant
Zanoki del Gioncondo
(A Marxist)
3. Sideway view of
the Louvre; shifting
function from
picture hang in the
palace to state
museum
(A New Historicists)
4. Seeing Mona Lisa
(female symbol) as
subject/object of art
(A Feminist)
5. Compare the
icon used in
modern era with
the original.
(A Postmodernist)
6. Clothes and style
(A fashion critics)

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10.  Foregrounding – Functionalism
The object is turned to be noticeable/
conspicuous through imagery, unusual words
combinations, sound patterning, metre, rhyme,
inverted or unusual word order.
 Existence of defamiliarisation
i.e., in pun
A: My dog smells awful. How does yours smell?
B: With his nose
in quips; Today I got up at the crack of lunchtime.

11. Within and outside text
 Actual author’s attitudes and values
i.e., a book by Benjamin Franklin called The
Way to Wealth or Shakespeare's Scarlet Letter
(overtly author gives his/her words to the
reader; sometimes a kind of judgment line)

12.  Narrator’s point of view
1. First
2. Second
3. Third
 Character’s point of view

13.  Implied reader’s point of view
“The hypothetical reader that a work is
addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes, etc.”
(collinsdictionary.com)
 Actual reader’s responses (opposite of
implied)

14.  Background, Foreground and point of view
are here to proffer viewers, readers, and art-
product consumers to enjoy artist’s creation
with a certain flavor, and other options are
the compliments.
If you are a dietitian, food combining is
healthier than one menu, only.

15. Pope, Rob. The English Studies Book: An
introduction to language, literature and
culture. 2002. New York: Routledge. Print
Collinsdictionary.com
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stdaily.ghost.io
wikipedia.com
sploid.gizmodo.com