Visual Literacy: Connections Between the Visual and the Verbal

The objective is for you to take a closer look at the image. Comb over the image with your eyes to find details that you can relate to. You are to bring your own personal experiences (these are things that you know about or maybe have participated in before) to the work of art that you select. You are to understand that when an artists makes a work of art there is usually a reason for it. In the art world this is called the artists' intent- why the work was created.

DETECTIVES to start: Select a work of art from one of the following museums...

Dallas Museum of Art

Violence by Nic Nicosia http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/1071/31/title-desc?t:state:flow=2b1f6f2f-33f3-49f6-bd2d-561b5c783b69

Rock Rock by Richard Linder http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/1071/390/title-desc?t:state:flow=4999d6e6-8c89-42ca-b195-0928d46ef0d9

Ed Walker Cleaning Fish by David Bates http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/1071/720/title-desc?t:state:flow=e353edd0-129b-41f5-b8e1-681dccb01a1b

The Art Institute of Chicago
Barnacles by Adam Emory Albright http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/23376
Talo/ The House by Eija-Lisa Ahtila http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/184113
Mexican Woman by Ansel Easton Adams http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/82463
Call the Doctor by Frederic Remington http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/97906

Museum of Modern Art
Fox in the Mirror: Concert by Liliana Porter http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=G:HI:E:1&page_number=112&template_id=1&sort_order=2
Study for Vignette by Kerry James Marshall http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:8285&page_number=4&template_id=1&sort_order=1
Sleep by Diego Rivera http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=72259

After a work of art has been selected, use the Venn Diagram to start examining the image and reflect on those things that are familiar to you to gather the meaning of the work of art.

Next, based upon your findings about the selected piece,  create a power point that includes the following information...

1. A copy of the art work that is selected. Include the museum where the art work can be found, name and original title of the art work and the name of the artist.

2. sample of objects that relate to the art work...clip art will work fine.

3. Choose between 5 to 10 words that relate to the art work. Of those words selected choose a minimum of 3 that you will use to create a new title for the art object.

4. On the last slide, write a brief comment about what you believe the meaning of the art work.