Graphics Reference
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Chapter 3
Essential Art Concepts
ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises a basic overview about visual literacy, discussion of art definitions, basic art
concepts, elements and principles of design, differences between art, design, craft, technical issues,
elements, and principles related to art, design, and many other disciplines, and the quality of display,
among other topics. An example of translation from nature, with all resulting connotations, to the visual
and the to the verbal and beyond the verbal takes the form of a project involving drawing an apple and
then writing a short poem about the apple. The reader is invited to integrate meaning, visualization,
and knowledge about an object.
INTRODUCTION: VISUAL LITERACY
suggested in the framed spaces, which are present
in the following chapters. Short introduction of this
kind may be useful for those focused on domains
other than visual arts, and may be helpful for those
readers who would like to be reactive to further
themes. The advantage of visual display of infor-
mation over speech or writing is in its nonlinear,
flexible time of viewing, multiple dimensions,
and possibility of restructuring of its content. The
readers' projects resulting from reading this topic
will hopefully display information aesthetically,
with visible traces of reasoning about concepts.
Concepts and problems pertained to art and design
emerge incessantly in the following chapters as the
essential factors in nonverbal or not exclusively
verbal productions such as creating visual solutions
of abstract concepts, designing visualization, or
a website. The central idea under this chapter's
content is to provide those of the readers who
did not find time or interest to study art-related
problems with basic information that could be
found conducive to creating meaningful projects
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch003
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