Visual Literacy: Connections Between the Visual and the Verbal

Targeted Learners: This webquest can be utilized with students in 3rd +. The idea is to get students familiar with using and implementing visual literacy skills when looking at different visuals they encounter on a daily basis.

As written in the student section, an artwork will be selected by the students that they will try to gather the story behind the image. Using visual literacy skills, the student will decipher clues left by the artist to develop a meaning behind the image.

Students will need to select one artwork from the following museum websites:

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National Gallery of Art NGAkids:
Saint George and the Dragon by Rogier
van der Weyden  http://www.nga.gov/kids/rogier/rogier1.htm
Hide and Seek by James Jacques Joseph Tissot http://www.nga.gov/kids/tissot/tissot1.htm
Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley http://www.nga.gov/kids/watson/watson1.html

Sid Richardson Museum:
Works by Frederic Remington http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/nu_site/collection.php/art/remington/view/artist_imgs/w/150
Works by Charles M. Russell http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/nu_site/collection.php/art/russell/view/artist_imgs/w/150

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

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Visual Literacy Sources to Consider:
Reading Images http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/675 lessons http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/
Visual Literacy K-8 http://k-8visual.info/ visual literacy defined as the reading and writing of visual texts.
Visual Literacy in the Classroom http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/riesland.htm

Blog: http://visualliteracytool.blogspot.com/