How Does Images Facilitate Our Thought Process Easier

Artists have many ways of conveying meaning using visual language. It is through the structural elements of a painting that responders are invited to discover the layers of deeper meaning and concept that may be present within any given work. Elements of visual language such a signs and symbols, colour tone and composition are used to further explore and develop the ideas which the artist wishes to express SENTENCE ABOUT WHICH ARTWORKS YOURE TALKING ABOUT AND HOW GR8 THEY ARE.

Mental images are created by the brain from memories, imagination, or a combination of both. Writers use imagery to help create mental images for the reader. Imagery is when words are used to appeal to your five senses, sight, taste, smell, touch, and sound. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird many types of imagery are used. Examples of imagery being used in the book is when the Radley place is being described, Scout’s teacher Miss. Caroline is being described, and when Miss. Caroline’s shriek was described.

“Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.” “Imagery is associated with mental pictures. However… imagery, to be realistic, turns out to be more complex than just a picture.”

One excellent example is, “Imagine that I’m a professor, you walk down, come though the doorway, sit down at a table…” (Gladwell, Primed for Action). Gladwell describes a character moving through a simple situation. Although this example may seem a bit vague, it provides an image within the reader’s mind of what that particular situation may look like. As Americans, we do this quite frequently, when we think of a certain event or social gathering we are planning on attending or even being forced to attend, we draw up and image within our minds. Sometimes said image may be a good image, with everything occurring exactly as you have thought those events would happen. Sadly, many times within our minds, not everything is pictured in a positive way. We may think of a social event where we may be shunned by everyone else attending the event because of one bad comment we spoke, or our taste in music or other entertainment. Another example of imagery within the book is the quote, “Predicting Divorce, like tracking Morse code operators, is pattern recognition.” (Gladwell, the Secrets of the Bedroom). This example, once again, gives us an image of this certain situation with the use of “Morse code operators” to provide some sort of image for our minds to

Language can fill a story with vivid details and show emotion throughout words. The words we use make our imagination bigger and opens up a new experience. Only words can make us feel connect with other people. How we view words depends on how we think and express ourselves.

Throughout Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing, there are many different aspects that are discussed thoroughly. First off, the way we perceive things and the way things are perceive differently are mostly affected by what we know or what we believe in. For instance, the way we look at images and paintings can be something different from what a person next to me is seeing. The way we are known to perceive images and paintings are based off prior knowledge, even the lack of knowledge we dont have when it comes to a certain topic especially in images and art. The relationship between words and what we see is what recognition.

As a graphic art design major I am often faced with the challenge of expressing my thoughts using art as a language. This is not an easy thing to do since art can mean many things to different people. Art is a form of symbolic speech. With the freedom to manipulate my thoughts by

The idea of mental imagery has always been a controversial subject in the field of psychology. Many psychologists have argued that such a concept is impossible to measure because it can not be directly observed. Though they are right about this, it is not impossible to measure how quickly mental rotations of images are processed in our brains. Subjects in this experiment were presented two shapes simultaneously, via computer screen, and asked to make judgement, as quickly as possible, as to whether the two shapes presented were the same or mirror images. Two different shapes were used in this experiment, each given as often as the other. During each trial one shape remained stationary and the other was rotated with varying

One way that researchers consider the premise that discourse involves choices and these choices affect overall meaning is to consider visual imagery. Current research on visual imagery is divided into two camps. However, these two perspectives are not opposing viewpoints; rather the main difference is that one focuses on

Visual art, while it doesn’t have words, can have a meaning and message that the artist is trying to reveal. The “style, genres, modes of representation, iconography, media, personal manner, and format” of art pieces are what help the artist express themselves and present the rhetoric (Meltzoff 27). An artist presents what they are trying to communicate through their piece. They make the conscious decision to employ strategies “such as color, form, medium, and size… not simply for the purpose of emotional discharge but for communication with an audience” (Foss 305). The artist uses these strategies to their advantage so their viewers can understand the message they are trying to get across and the emotions they put into the piece.

One universal aspect of the human condition is communication. Finding some way to convey the abstract concepts of our minds in such a way they can be understood by others is a fundamental necessity of being a human in culture as we understand it. It is with this understanding that the question has been asked; if language is the medium through which our perceptions are channeled, how much are our perceptions distorted by language? How much is our language distorted by our perceptions? Is this relationship something that could be manipulated, and how effective would it be? Thankfully, these are questions that

Perhaps painting as a language can answer these questions, where as our primary language, words, is what confuses our understanding of what painting is communicating. Painting is an untranslatable language that can only be understood in terms of painting in itself and is not subject to

The idiom often attributed to Frederick Barnard, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” is in reference to the thought that a picture has the power to convey meaning and essence more effectively than descriptive words can do alone. Images from war, such as Eddie Adams photograph from the Vietnam War titled, “Saigon Execution,” (Adams) covey the horrors of conflict more than mere words ever could do on their own. Images have always had a way to convey our emotion and thoughts when words might fail us. It is important however to remember that it is the photographer, and not the viewer to who is controlling the story. People experienced in the art of taking pictures know that by changing the lighting, angles, or colors that they can change the perception that one sees in the image, and therefore the story they are trying to tell. If you take an image from above the subject the object will appear small, and vice versa if the angle of the image if from below the object will appear to be larger. Knowing this can help you to discern what is the true meaning is and put it into the proper context. As Mary J. Moran and Deborah W. Tegano said in their paper titled, “Moving toward Visual Literacy: Photography as a Language of Teacher Inquiry,” “…it is the photographer’s story, then is anyone who view the slides without knowing the photographer’s intent at risk for an inauthentic interpretation of meaning?” (moran) In the

Many people perceive thoughts differently because they all have different view of the world. After reading the text, Communications in a Changing World, I learned how people can interpret things differently. There are steps of perception everyone goes through which includes interpretation, selection, and organization. As I showed a picture to three different people, they all had different words that described the picture and this explains how people perceive thoughts differently.

They provide a static cohesive picture that illustrates through images and words the feeling of a particular moment that cannot be done with solely an image or words.