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Pablo Picasso & √2 Diagrams

Posted on September 2, 2017November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

  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…

Posted on May 31, 2017November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

  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?

Posted on January 17, 2017November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

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?

Posted on January 6, 2017November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

  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?

Posted on December 24, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

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?

Posted on December 22, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

  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?

Posted on December 15, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

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?

Posted on December 12, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

  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?

Posted on December 9, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

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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Mixing Things Up!

Posted on December 7, 2016November 7, 2020 by Lou Gagnon

Hopefully these demonstrations will resolve any lingering doubts about the idea that Red + Green = Yellow. So, how does this all relate…

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