This document provides an overview of different types of visual images and methods for analyzing images. It discusses still images like paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs as well as moving images like film and television. It outlines objective and subjective approaches to analyzing images, including analyzing the theme, technical aspects, and artistic elements, as well as considering social contexts and emotional reactions. Specific examples are provided of different genres of paintings like religious, historical, costumbrist, landscape, still life, and portrait works. Key elements of paintings and sculptures are defined for analyzing works, such as materials, techniques, composition, use of lines and shapes, colors, textures, and perspectives.

1. Visual Language 2
Projection made for the edublog

2. KIND OF IMAGES
STILL IMAGES AND MEDIA
They represent a moment in reality:
 Drawing and Painting
 Sculpture and relief
 Arquitecture
 Etching and engraving
 The press
 The comic
 Photography
 Design: graphic desgin,
industrial design, arquitectural
design, textile and fashion design
MOVING IMAGES AND MEDIA
They represent reality through
movement:
 Film
 Television
 Video

3. Image Analysis
OBJECTIVE READING
A) Theme Depiction
B) Technics Aspects
C) Artisitic Elements
SUBJECTIVE READING
 Social stereotupes
 Context and channel
 Image function
 Emotional reactions
 Feedback possibility

4. PAINTING

5. VISUAL ELEMENTS
OF PAINTING
THEME DEPICTION
* Author
* Genre (portrait, group portrait,
religious (mythological if refered
to ancient greek or latin gods),
nude, historical, events fantasy,
landscape, still life, costumbrist,
political).
* Identification of objects,
characters, different elements…
* General style: Reinaissance,
Symbolism, Expressionism…
* Iconicity level: figurative or
abstract.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
* Suport (cardboard, fabric, wall) and
materials
* Technic (oil, acrylic, watercolour,
gouache, fresco, collage )
* Tools (pencils, markers, fountain pen,
brush, palette knife...).
•Kind of brush-stroke (long or short, thin or
thick, textured or smooth)
ARTISTIC ELEMENTS
* Use of the basic elements of visual
language elements (point, line...).
* Kind of shapes (regular, organic,
closed, opened...).
* Colours (primary, secondary,
complementary, warm, cold,
combination, meaning...).
* Textures (organic, artificial, optical,
tactile).
* Perspective (linear or aerial).
* Light: sources, direction, temperature,
kind, style
* Composition (symmetric, asymmetric,
balanced...).
YOUR OWN OPINION
Analyse thinking in the different
aspects and express your own opinion
about the work.

6. Religious

7. Anonymous.Sant Climent of Taüll (XIIth century)
Religious
Romanesque
Figurative
Fresco

8. Fra Angelico. “The
Annunciation”(1445)
Religious
Italian Renaissance
Realist
Gold, tempera on
wooden panel

9. Gaugin. “The Yellow Christ” (1889)
Religious
Postimpresionism, Symbolism
Figurative
Oil on canvas
Crucifix, Pont-Aven

10. Historical

11. Velázquez. “The Spears” or “The Surrender of Breda” (1635)
Historical – Landscape- Group portrait
Spanish Barroque
Realist
Oil on canvas

12. Jacques Louis David. “The Coronation of Napoleon”(1805)
Historical
French Neoclassicism
Realist
Oil on canvas

13. Picasso. “Guernica”(1937)
Historical
Cubist / Simbolist
Figurative
Oil on canvas

14. Costumbrist

15. Johannes Vermeer. “The Milkmaid” (1660)
Costumbrist
Flamenco
Realist
Oil on canvas

16. Berthe Morrisot. “The Crib” (1872)
Costumbrist
Impresionism
Figurative
Oil on canvas

17. Landscape

18. Friedrich. Easter Morning(1828-35)
Landscape
German Romanticism
Figurative
Oil on canvas

19. Kandinsky. Murnau Street with Woman. (1908)
Landscape
Fauvism
Figurative
Oil on cardboard

20. Antonio López. Gran Vía. (1974-81)
Landscape
Hiperrealism
Realist
Oil on canvas

21. Still Life

22. Rachel Ruysch.
Flower Still Life, (1726)
Barroque
Oil on canvas
Fruits and insects by Rachel Ruysch in youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-
h6cZCXrs#t=32

23. Cezanne. Still life with curtain(1895)
Still life
Postimpresionism
Figurative
Oil on canvas

24. Picasso. Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper (1913)
Still life
Cubism
Figurative-abstract
Collage

25. Portrait

26. Gustav Klimt. Adele Bloch-Bauer I
(1907)
Portrait
Modernism
Figurative
Oil and gold on canvas

27. Marc Chagall. Self-portrait with Seven Fingers (1914)
Portrait
Cubism/surrealism
Figurative
Oil on canvas

28. Chuck Close. Self-portrait (1997)
Portrait
Figurative
Oil on canvas

29. SCULPTURE

30. VISUAL ELEMENTS
OF SCULPTURE
THEME DEPICTION
* Author
* Genre (portrait, group portrait,
religious (mythological if refered
to ancient greek or latin gods),
nude, historical, events fantasy,
landscape, still life, costumbrist,
political).
* Identity of objects, characters,
different elements…
* General style: Reinaissance,
Symbolism, Expressionism…
* Iconicity level: figurative or
abstract.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
* Materials (cardboard, clay, cement, wood,
stone, bronze...).
* Technique (modelling, carving, casting,
assemblage, pottery...).
* Tools (gouge, chisel, sanding machine...).
ARTISTIC ELEMENTS
* Prevalent elements (line, colour,
texture...).
* Kind of shapes (regular, organic,
closed, opened...).
* Colours (primary, complementary,
warm, cold...).
* Textures (organic, artificial, optical,
tactile).
* Perspective (linear or aerial).
* Composition (symmetric, asymmetric,
balanced...).
YOUR OWN OPINION
Analise thinking in the different aspects
and express your own opinion about
the work.

31. Type of sculptures
Alejandro sarcophagus
Chillida. El peine del viento
Ara Pacis
Ramses funerary chapel
Free standing
sculpture
Relief sculpture
High relief
Medium relief
Bas-relief
Modelling (addition): clay, plasticine
Techniques
Carving (subtraction): wood, stone, plaster
Casting (with cast): metals, wax
Assemblage: cardboard, plates

32. Marcel Duchamp. Ready made (1917)
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33. Alexander Calder. Spider (1939)Motion by Calder in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OqfduWdhc#t=138

34. Henry Moore. Reclining Figure (1951)

35. Alberto Giacometti. Walking Man (1960)

36. Louise Bourgeois. Maman (1999)

37. Anish Kapoor. Cloud gate (2004)