Grade 9 Art - Day 62: Visual Literacy Session 3, "Visual Language"

VISUAL LANGUAGE

All images are compositions. 

• When you compose an essay (or a poem, song lyrics, etc.) you use the alphabet to form words, words to form phrases, phrases to form sentences, and so on. 
• When you compose an image (a painting, drawing, photograph, or moving images like film and video) that image is constructed through visual language.

For this exercise, you are to evaluate two images in relation to key concepts in visual literacy.

1) Select three of the “Elements or Principles of Design” on our word wall.

2) Analyze how those three elements are used in each of the two visual compositions attached to this message. Be specific.

Here are the two images:

3) Using your analysis above, compare and contrast the two images and discuss how you think we should use surplus money in Canada.  Should our priority be helping the people of the world that need our help, or focus our efforts on helping the needy within our borders?