Essays on Visual Culture

Alternative media refers to delivery of various media or arts outside of traditional delivery systems. One such, often understudied, alternative media practice is the development of street art. I selected topic #3. This fits within the larger context of the course, by working to define what alternative is, and how specific practices fit into the larger goal, and genre of alternative media. The primary research question for this topic will be: What is the historical context of street art, what resistance has it faced, and how does it serve the public socially, as an art form. This will include ...

Miraculous might be the most popular elements in visual culture throughout the history. The term first appears in the religious context, and is now widely adapted in popular culture including films, TV shows, and animations, etc. Synonyms of miraculous include: supernatural, magical and marvelous etc. The audience of those miraculous visuals, whether religious or not, is always attracted to this interesting element. It is different from the violent or the sentimental since the visuals target a really wide range of audience, regardless of age, race, sex, and taste. According to Hood, “ever since we are born, we generate knowledge ...

Introduction

The works that the Chinese created since the Qing Dynasty marked the essence of its iconography. It gave the Chinese artists a specific place and space in world art, as they rendered subjects, materials and objects in a particular detail, and composition. The Qing Dynasty also gave rise to the portrayal of the Taoye tu that was commissioned by the Emperor Qianlong. The artwork particularly emphasized the manufacturing of the porcelain objects, but it emphasized the illustrations that were portrayed as “sequential viewed sets,” thus, it created a set of ordered visual illustrations. In light of this, it would ...

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Identity is a construct that encompasses the way people think about themselves and their role in the larger social environment. Human identity is enacted through social interactions with other people as well as the relationship built between them. Therefore, identity can be understood to be containing both individual and personal differentiators and components related to someone’s role in social groups (Berzonsky, pp. 55). Absolute identity characteristics can be written in the body such as ethnicity or gender. Therefore, the way people behave reflects on their behavior, beliefs and affiliations. Communication technologies and online information have shaped the process ...

Modernist movement was the catalyst that opened new ways of interpreting art as a tool for political and social discourse reflecting the rise of ideas and improvisation of imagery/performance through the use of contemporary materials available at that time. The term ‘modernist’ ubiquitously dominated the art critiques from the past decades in an attempt to explain the society’s rejection of the traditional iconography of the previous movements. With the advent of rapid industrialization spurred the growth of ideas that defined the social and political landscape of the 20th century. This changes brought by the modernist ideals revolutionized the ...

ARTE 480

Midterm Essay In November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse was presented to the world by Walt Disney, which eventually ruled the popular culture among the younger sector of the global society. In succeeding decades after its conception, the Walt Disney Company did not only create hundreds of cartoon characters, but also brought to the world a seemingly magical kingdom. The animations, characters, resorts, theme parks, and the merchandise owned by Disney have all became part of the popular culture and had become precious memories of every person’s childhood years. In this respect, this paper will discuss Disney as a ...

Introduction

Understanding self- identity in ‘selphie’ portrait photography looks at the influence of social media on the way people take mobile phone pictures connected to editing a new identity as portrayed in the photographs shared on Internet social networks. The amazing popularity of phone camera (see Figure 1) technology, photography, and the number of self-portraits finally appearing on Internet social networks continues creating a phenomenon. The effect looks at how social networks influence how people take selphie (Oxforddictionaries.com, 2014) photographs and edit them. Comparisons of film and digital photography linking to self-identity show a connection ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

What are the arts for? (For the purposes of this paper, consider “arts” to be the same as visual culture and to cover anything produced with a visual design aspect to it).

Visual culture is an important aspect of any society and the arts, particularly the visual aspect have been part of man’s civilisation since time immemorial. Even the first prehistoric man used visual drawings and graphics to depict certain situations and episodes in his life and these have been preserved in caves and on buildings and artefacts which have been discovered after thousands of years. The recent centuries have seen art develop substantially and one may arrive at the conclusion that art is a representation of a particular moment and can also be described as the identity of a particular society.

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Throughout its long history, China managed to establish its own place in the world through its arts. Chinese visual culture is so broad a term and usually refers to paintings, calligraphy and other arts that have a socio-political and philosophical relevance. 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged that Chinese art is the avant-garde amongst the Asian countries and the primary root of several cultures such as Japan, Korea and the Southeast Asian coutries. Chinese artists and craftsmen often incorporate the philosophy of Confucianism and Taoism in their artworks such as the unity and harmony of the design. China’s art was ...

History of Developing Manga

Isao Shimizu, author of ‘the history of Manga’ / ‘Manga no Rekishi’, cites drawings from the 12th and 13th century as the first manga texts. Today manga is part of the pop culture in Japan and the world over. It comprises of story-driven narratives (usually a complete novel-like work of an author), composed with stylized illustrations, flexible use of linguistic text (onomatopoeic and spoken) and discursive frames. It uses visual designs manipulated to function as iconographic. Manga has identifiable vocabularies and registers temporal spatial relationships into the characters in the narration to give them multiple voices, personalities and mental states ...

VISUAL CULTURE: EVALUATING TED TALKS PRESENTERS

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Visual culture facilitates and influences communication on a daily basis regardless of our literacy levels. The use of images to create an identity or influence our perception of ideologies, products, cultures and people stems from our hunger for knowledge and the need to have a better understanding of the world. However, we rarely stop and analyze what we consume. We assume that the media representations of race, gender and identity are true at face value and father adopt this mentality in our thinking. This study seeks to understand the frameworks used in reading visual images and gain a degree of ...

Reflection and Critique of the Visual in My World

Visual culture is fundamentally the study of various combinations, which include art history, philosophy, critical theory, anthropology as well as cultural studies by focusing on noble aspects of culture that rely mainly on visual images. Visual culture also includes the signs and symbols that people encounter daily and the paramount interpretations and importance that the cultures places on them (Gill 03). However, the journal opens up a critical societal issue that men’s bodies are to be viewed as sex objects which leads to moral decay. It is worth noting that the society demands and norms are that everybody ...

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Response to Reading For the greatest part of the historic period prior to 1800, visual culture was informed by the Classical traditions of Ancient Greece and Rome. The ideal of Classical antiquity set the norm for how art should be made and how it should be experienced. In this respect, particular evaluative standards about what is appropriate visual culture existed linking it to the Classical ideal and excluding everything else. The modern period saw the re examination of these values and contemporary visual culture specialists have expanded the field in order to include not only the traditional artistic ...

Nicholas Mirzoeff (3) defines visual culture as the process by which visual consumers seek meaning or pleasure or information from visual events as presented on a technological interface. Visual technology is any medium designed to purpose of enabling or augmenting the visual experience. This paper will interrogate the relevance of visual culture in everyday life. A recent image captured in Egypt will be used to test the application of the concepts of visual culture in post modern images. The study of visual culture is necessitated by the great divide that exists between contemporary visual experiences and the ability to ...

Following The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract The educational system in any society may have its merits in prioritizing students with overall necessary skills and attributes as prerequisites to life-long careers. But many arguments proposed by educational philosophers over the years have spurned the question of contemporary education as being mandatory. Perhaps traditional educational practices to prepare students of higher education possess the credentials for related practices. Yet, nowadays many students, especially those enrolled in higher studies no longer possess the required knowledge and training for practical attributes. Do institutionalized schools actually countermeasure the mainstream of learning, or will they open to redefine the ...

How Alcoholism is shown in the Media Sector

Introduction Visual culture refers to all the things in a culture that have a visual appearance and play a major role in their existence. It entails the provision and utilization activities of the elite groups' personal and popular types of media. Media refers to all channels of communication, targeting the masses in the form of sports, news, social sites, education etc. These include; Television, radio, newspapers, social sites such as face book and twitter, and the internet. The media portrays alcoholism in various ways; both good and bad. The media generally plays a crucial role in determining the intake of alcoholic drinks ...