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Visual Literacy
By Don L. F. Nilsen
And Alleen Pace Nilsen
Visual Past: Egyptian Hieroglyphics & The Rosetta StoneQUESTION: What is a cartouche and why is it important?
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Cartouche of Thutmose III
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics are alphabetic, not pictographic.
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The History of WritingPictographs
cave drawings
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Chinese, Japanese
Ideographs
! @ # $ % & ? .
Chinese, Japanese
Runes
Magic, Spells
North Germanic
Syllabary
ISU, FUNEX?
LE, CD puppies?
Japanese Kanji
Phonemic Alphabet
BDFHJKLMNPRSTVWYZ
Spanish, Latin
Morphophonemic Alphabet
CGQX, AEIOU
knight, hôtel
English, French
Emojis
Back to Pictures
Universal (all languages)
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Visual Ambiguities
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Letters vs. Numbers Literacy
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Visual Anachronism
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Visual Analogies
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Alleen Nilsen & Friends
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Visual Antithesis
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Magritte’s Window
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Visual Aptness
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Quixote’s Mind
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Visual Distortion
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Picasso’s “Les Dmoiselles d’Avignon”
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Visual Impossibility
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Escher’s Waterfall
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Visual Metaphors
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Skeleton Words in English
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Visual Orientation
Upside-Down& Sideways
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Frog or Horse?
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Visual Paradoxes
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Paradoxical Colors
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LANGUAGE VS. IMAGE
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INVISIBLE BOX
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Paradoxical Circles
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Trapezoid Room
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Visual Parodies
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Parody of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are
• With:– Bill Cosby– George Lopez– Ray Romano–Margaret Cho– Brad Garrett and – Bill Engvall
• As Wild Things
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Diego Velazquez: Las Meninas
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Pablo Picasso: Las Meninas
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Visual Personification
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Magritte’s “Tree with Ax”
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Visual Repetition
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Magritte’s Bowler Hats
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Visual Subtlety
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Animal Face
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Visual Symbols
Visual Future: Emoji
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Emoji Keyboard