visual analysis introduction
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Visual Analysis Introduction. Never mistake the message—for the messenger . Source: Understanding comics The Invisible Art Scott McCloud. The A rtform —the Medium– known as comics is a Vessel which can hold any Number of Ideas and Images. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Visual AnalysisIntroductionNever mistake the message—for the
messenger.Source: Understanding comics The Invisible Art Scott McCloud
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The Artform—the Medium– known as comics is a Vessel which can hold any Number of Ideas and Images
Writers, Artists, Trends, Genres, Styles, Subject
matter, Themes
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Juxtaposed
Pictorial and other Images in Deliberate Sequence
Definition
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Tomb of Minna 1300
BC
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Bayeaux Tapestry 1066
230 ft long
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Pre-Columbian Picture Manuscript
159336 feet
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Trajan’s column
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Greek Art
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Japanese Scrolls
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William Hogarth
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William Hogarth
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Rudolphe Toppfer
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Stained Windows
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Monet
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Pictures in Sequence
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Picture Booth
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No superheroes, funny animals,
fantasy/science fiction, or reader age. Nothing said about technical aspects or
materials No schools of art, philosophies, movements, or
ways of seeing
Juxtaposed Pictorial and other Images in Deliberate Sequence
Definition
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?
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These are not
people
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This is not a law.
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This is not food.
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This is not a face.
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This is not a splat.
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Icons
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In the Non-Pictorial icons meaning is fixed and absolute, their appearance doesn’t affect their meaning because they represent invisible ideas.
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This phenomenon of
observing the parts but perceiving the whole has a name:
closure.
Closure
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Closure
Sometimes a mere shape or outline is enough to trigger closure.
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Closure
The mental process
described whereby these lines become a face could be considered
closure.
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Closure
Comics has an audience is willing and conscious collaborator and closure is the agent of change, time, and motion.
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Comics panels fracture both time and
space, offering a jagged, staccato rhythm of unconnected moments.
But closure allows us to connect these moments and mentally construct a continuous, unified reality.
Visual iconography is the vocabulary of comics, closure is its grammar.
Closure
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The space between the panels is what comics
aficionados have named “The Gutters.” In the limbo of the gutter, Human
Imagination takes two separate images and transforms them into a single idea.
Nothing is seen between the two panels but the experience tells you something must be there.
Closure
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Peek-a-boo
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Comics Panels Fracture both Time and space, offering a jagged, staccato rhythm of unconnected moments.
But closure allows us to connect these moments and mentally construct a continuous, unified reality.
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Comics Panels Fracture both Time and space, offering a jagged, staccato rhythm of unconnected moments.
But closure allows us to connect these moments and mentally construct a continuous, unified reality.
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Every act committed to
paper by the comics artist is aided and abetted by a silent accomplice.
An equal partner in crime known as the reader.
Closure
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All of you participated in
the murder. All of you held the axe and chose your
spot.
Participation is a powerful force in any medium. Filmmakers long ago realized the importance of allowing viewers to use their imaginations.