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A perfect example that I found with words throwing off an image was from facebook.As I was scrolling through an acquaintances pictures, I came across a picture in which she was wearing a fancy dress and heels in New York City during broad daylight. The first thought that came to my head was that she was on her way to work or to an interview. After reading her caption "walk of shame", I realized she had been up from being out the night before. It completely boggled my mind and made me look at her from a whole different perspective.
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A few years ago I was amazed when I saw the painting by Jackson Pollock. This painting occupies an entire wall in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is an abstract expressionism work without any hint of representation. A person’s eye can recognize black, white, brown and pastel shades on a canvas in a chaotic order. From a distance those colors all together look like one huge blot and nothing else. After spending some time of trying to figure out what I was looking at my next thought was that black spots were dancing people. The white curves seemed to be some kind of letters. The answer of these mysterious lines came after I read the title of the painting. It calls autumn rhythm. It changed the meaning of what I saw in this painting. In became so clear and obvious that Pollock tried to depict autumn. Those crazy curves must be his idea of expressing the leaves falling down and the dynamic changing of the seasons.
ReplyDeleteThis is Simon, sorry about the user name, it's been created with my gmail account a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteThere's actually a pretty well known example for the quest, the link is as followed: http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/optical_illusions_images_2/images/youngwomanoldlady.jpg
The point of this is, if the image is observed without the acknowledgement of the title, most people won't find anything extraordinary in it other than the face of an old/young women. I think this is kind of an example of what you are asking for.
I recently ran across an advertisement which showed a picture of a ship out on the ocean. It was a beautiful 3D picture, almost looked like a painting. It really captured my attention but the picture alone gave me no idea to what message it was trying to convey. As silly as this sounds, to me it almost seemed like one of the ships Christopher Columbus sailed on to come to America. With the added words "At one point everyone thought the world was flat. Get the truth about Windows Vista," this spectacular picture turned into a computer advertisement. Windows Vista was trying to show how much is still undiscovered and how their program will open up our eyes to this. It changed my whole view on this advertisement and on Windows Vista. I guess I was completely off with my Christopher Columbus assumption. This just goes to show that the advertisement did exactly what it was supposed to do and how words and images really help each other out.
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In our environment today smoking has become almost like a chore to many individuals. While walking down the street, in the subway, and even driving down the highway, we come across many advertisments for smoking. At first glance some of these advertisments seem as if they are promoting smoking or selling a certainbrand of cigarettes. However, when you look closely and examine the image or read its caption, more than half of these advertisments are advertising reasons we should not amoke. Some reasons include medical problems, polltion, cost and many more. Once you read the caption of the advertisment your first thought or meaning of this advertisement may change completely. Captions alone have a strong representation for an image. One may think the artist is portraying one thing, when something completely different or opposite is its actual meaning. sometimes our perception of images changes our understandings.
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Sometimes I do not understand television commercials or advertisements posted on the streets until I read or hear the words that go along with those commercials. Recently I have noticed a commercial inside the subway cars, at the top, with pictures of different women. In each picture the face of the same woman will have three different expressions, right next to each other. The expressions are like she is pain or she is happy. First I thought this is a commercial of some medication, but the words written next to the pictures are:
ReplyDelete'The satisfying, infuriating, satisfying again
puzzle solving game'
This is the commercial of a new Nintendo DS game that I understood by looking at the part of the commercial behind the seats. It has the picture of Nintendo DS and the words written on it. To get the attention of the consumers and to make them interesting, a lot of times the commercials are not clear in the beginning of what they are advertising.
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Words and Images can often give change to a meaning when displayed through advertisement. I recently saw an advertisement for Georgi liquor on the back of a public transportation bus which quickly grabbed my attention. The advertisement quickly caught my eye because there was a picture of a model showing off her bikini bottom next to the bottle of liquor. Most people know that Georgi is one of the cheapest, most unpleasant tasting liquors on the market, but perhaps due to its unique advertisement it continues to be a popular liquor. Companies make sales not only due to the product but also with strong methods of advertisement, and I feel as though this is the reason the Georgi brand is still a popular one.
looks are definitly decieving. I was in the parking lot of a Stop and Shop watching what looked like a very poor man. He had on old shoes, dirty looking shorts, and oversized T-shirt and a baseball cap. I watched this man slowly make his way down the parking lot with his one bag of food. And then to my surprise unlock his car which was the Lamborgini at the end of the parking lot. Who would of thunk???
ReplyDeleteI am a big admirer of Vincent Van Gogh. "Starry night over the Rhone river" is one of my favorite painting because of its majesty and liveliness. The painting itself, in a poster, is such an inspiring element that evokes vitality and energy. Furthermore, when the authentic painting was exhibited in the Modern Museum of Art, my perception changed. I could appreciate every detail, brushstroks, final touches and shades. I could picture myself in the middle of a chilly night in Rhone River, and observing the beauty of a starry sky reflected over the water. I realized it was my own interpretation because the painting was directly talking to me.
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People make their advertisement best from their mind and that attracts you. I am going to India in this summer and i have stay at the Paris Airport in France. At the airport they have the pictures from all of the best things from the France and it looks very Beautiful and when you first see that, you will think like that this looks like a great place to live in the world, but when you actually live over there then you think this is all same like my home country.
ReplyDeleteMany times as we read we encounter many scenarios in which words and images accompany each other. When words and images accompany each other, it is easier for the reader to get the full meaning of wha is trying to get represented. When a reader is reading a book or almost anything without an image it is up to the reader to try to visualize as much as possible what he or she is reading, but the problem is that what the reader visualizes may not be exactly the way author of that piece wanted it to represent. And in the case when someone is looking through images that has no caption or any text corresponding to it, the viewer may not fully understand what the image really represents. The viewer may only comprehend a simple meaning from the image only based on what he or she can see., but it definately may not be what the "artist" had in mind when drawing or painting that "work of art". However when words and images accompany each other the reader is able to get the full meaning and what it represents and stands for. It is with the use of both words and images that the reader gets the same message that the author was trying to convey to us. A good example of how the use of both words and images show the reader or the viewer the full meaning of the text can be seen in photographs. When someone sends a photograph to a friend or a relative a small caption is usually included with the photograph so the other person is able to understand the photo - the who, the what, the when the photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteI saw a commercial on television where there were young kids smoking within a home and socializing as if it were a normal, everyday thing to see. I didn't quite undertstand the message that the ad was trying to portray until the man(speaker) told the viewer(s) what it was. The message was actually saying that if adults smoke at home, the kids get affected and face the consequences as well. After the message was clear to me, I understood the image of the commercial clearly.
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