Time for a Little Perspective
In 1413 in Florence, Filippo Brunelleschi set up a mirror in the dark door way of the Duomo to bounce light back on…
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Pablo Picasso & √2 Diagrams
Pablo Picasso painted ‘First Communion’ in 1896. He was around 15 years old at the time. It’s a large painting at 65.4”…
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Everything We See…
How do you teach someone something they already know? They’ve seen all their lives. They learned about primary colors in kindergarten. They’ve…
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VLQ: What Do You See?
Ironically, the last question from the Visual Literacy Quiz is typically the starting place for most of my instruction. Why? Because this diagram…
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VLQ: Which Painting is by Picasso?
Well, we know from the last post that the painting B, on the right, is ‘Guernica’ painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937….
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VLQ- How do these relate?
Painting A is the ‘Annunciation’ – 1472-1475 by Leonardo Da Vinci. Painting B is ‘Orange Diagonal’ – 2008 by Ellsworth Kelly. Painting C…
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VLQ: Which of these does not relate to the DEMR?
First, the Division in Extreme and Mean Ration (DEMR) is a proportional relationship discovered by Euclid * and documented in his book…
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VLQ: Can you construct a √2 rectangle?
Some rectangles are more fun than others, mathematically, especially for design. They are known as the Root Rectangles or the Golden Section Series. …
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VLQ: What do we call the Red Line?
Topology: Part III As we learned in the Topology: Part II post, one of the Primary Shapes is a Square. A square…
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VLQ: What is the Opponent to this?
So we learned here that, according to Traditional Color Theory and the color wheel, the Complement to Red is Green. Traditional Color Theory…
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