Chengyang Jiang
Prof. David Bretz
AAD 251
Final Reflection
June 7, 15
1. How has this class experience enhanced your ability to communicate visually? How are you more visually literate?
Usually, what people see have profound effect on what people do, how people feel, and who they are. The class experience helps increase the understanding of the visual world. Communication is the most important tool of social existence and survival, communication is also a complex process that requires a good manage of information, however communicate visually such as communicate with graphics, pictures, videos can make a boring communicate interesting. Based on my own opinion, I believe visual communication makes the audience understand more clarity, and the …show more content…
It sounds not that exciting, but that moment changed the way that how I should appreciate an art piece. Use values as an example, and by understand the importance of the elements of design, I started to understand how important lights and darks are in paintings. In the past, I do not know that I could look at a painting and evaluate the values of the paintings to understand the elements and it makes the whole paintings have impact. Color is also an important element in design, and different colors represent different meanings. Use Chris Ofili’s paintings as an example, he likes to use red, black and green in his paintings, if you do not know the person at the first place, you can feel the paintings only through the colors that chosen by Chris. Red refers to angry, green brings hope, black means dark, etc. all the colors that he chosen just add extra accent to the creation. Besides, the breakthrough moments not only teach me a lesson to understand a master’s art pieces in a new vision, but also help me to get personal interpretation and get connected with the artist easily. I did not expect any great break-through moments at the first place, when I started to learn something new, it is a breakthrough moments for me. Learning new things and learn about what I did not know before makes me change. When I get a chance to learn something new, it makes me strong and become
Prof. David Bretz
AAD 251
Final Reflection
June 7, 15
1. How has this class experience enhanced your ability to communicate visually? How are you more visually literate?
Usually, what people see have profound effect on what people do, how people feel, and who they are. The class experience helps increase the understanding of the visual world. Communication is the most important tool of social existence and survival, communication is also a complex process that requires a good manage of information, however communicate visually such as communicate with graphics, pictures, videos can make a boring communicate interesting. Based on my own opinion, I believe visual communication makes the audience understand more clarity, and the …show more content…
It sounds not that exciting, but that moment changed the way that how I should appreciate an art piece. Use values as an example, and by understand the importance of the elements of design, I started to understand how important lights and darks are in paintings. In the past, I do not know that I could look at a painting and evaluate the values of the paintings to understand the elements and it makes the whole paintings have impact. Color is also an important element in design, and different colors represent different meanings. Use Chris Ofili’s paintings as an example, he likes to use red, black and green in his paintings, if you do not know the person at the first place, you can feel the paintings only through the colors that chosen by Chris. Red refers to angry, green brings hope, black means dark, etc. all the colors that he chosen just add extra accent to the creation. Besides, the breakthrough moments not only teach me a lesson to understand a master’s art pieces in a new vision, but also help me to get personal interpretation and get connected with the artist easily. I did not expect any great break-through moments at the first place, when I started to learn something new, it is a breakthrough moments for me. Learning new things and learn about what I did not know before makes me change. When I get a chance to learn something new, it makes me strong and become