Graphics Reference
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Table 2.
Your Response: Writing about Images
Go to the site of Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry:
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/wm/rh/ or http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/ and write an analysis of Elements and Principles of Design you can
recognize while looking at these works of art.
free from the constraints of actuality can create
something that seems more that human, so is
feared and revered.
Ethologists:
Naturalists studying animal
behavior are aware of actual symbolic shortcuts
in animal perception and making a meaning of
what animals see or hear. For example, for small
animals the rustle of leafs may mean danger. An
elongated object on the sky that is moving along
its axis (like a goose) seems safe for small ani-
mals on the ground. When this object is flying
sideways (like a hawk), it can be perceived as a
predator by frogs, snails, or bunnies. When we
think about the arts in terms of semiotics, we talk
about visual communication between the artist
who is the sender of the message, and the viewer
who is its receiver. Many concur with the opinion
that images become messages when a distinction
is made between a signal and its referent. When
thinking about our imagery, we can see relations
of signals, symbols, and signs to their referents.
Messages take form of both the visual stimuli, e.g.,
colors, and the signs. Thus we can tie a symbol or
a sign to that for which it stands to combine images
at will, to use language and think figuratively or
metaphorically.
Figure 6 is a visual message telling about the
persistence of our approaches toward nature and
