Visual literacy assessment

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Visual Literacy Skills Practice 4- Ability to understand compositional elements Compositional (visual) elements include: Color: "Colorful Head Covers Aid Stabled Traditions" 1- How many colors does the seller have for the head covers? 2- Are they cold colors, warm colors or a mixture of the both? 3- Which culture do you remember when you look at these colors? 4- Is it the same impact you would feel if the photo was colored by black and white? Shape: " Totally Solid but With Great Hidden Soul" 1- which one of the three components (the pottery, the books and the wall picture) have the biggest size and which one of them have the smallest size?

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Visual Literacy Skills Practice

4- Ability to understand compositional elements Compositional (visual) elements include:

• Color: "Colorful Head Covers Aid Stabled Traditions"

1- How many colors does the seller have for the head covers?2- Are they cold colors, warm colors or a mixture of the both?3- Which culture do you remember when you look at these colors?4- Is it the same impact you would feel if the photo was colored by black and white?

• Shape: " Totally Solid but With Great Hidden Soul"

1- which one of the three components (the pottery, the books and the wall picture) have the biggest size and which one of them have the smallest size?2- Compare between the pottery in the photograph and the one made in Oman from the aspect of the final shape. 3- What geometric shapes you can notice in the photograph? and where?4- How many rectangles can you see in the photo? two, seven or none?

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• Rhythm: "Religions Indications Around the World"

1- Contrast is not about colors only. So, what kind of contrast is obvious in the photo?2- Does the flow and the arrangement of columns affect the way you are looking at the photo?3- what does putting the cross on the top of the building tell us?4- What is the overall feeling you feel when you 'read' this photo?

• Pattern: "Detection of Islamic Amazing Art"

1- Try to figure out the 'five basic establishments' that have produce this Photo.2- Which of textual, geometric, animal and plant shapes did not appear in the photo?3- Which culture do you remember when you look at this pattern? And from where do you think the photographer have he/she take it?4- Do you think the designer of this pattern did grant success in choosing the right colors to protruding the final look of the pattern?

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• Texture: "Strong Humanity Building Above Rocky Mountains"

1- What are the two main elements in the photo? And what kind of surfaces are they?2- Give two examples similar or near to the surface features of the mountains and the road.3- Have you ever see something similar in Oman? Where?4- Isn't it an excellent example for the accomplishment that happen in Oman after 1970?

• Shadow: "Zoomed Mind!"

1- Specify both of dark and bright area.2- What does zooming the light on the little girl and the rabbit tell us?3- Doesn't the dark area represent another visual element other than the shadow? What is that element?4- Imagine that there was light on the little girl more than on the rabbit. That would tell us that it is whose turn?A. The little girlB. The rabbit

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• Flow of movement: "Unforgettable Moments!"

1- What do the four kids do? And where?2- Do they seem like they are following an arranged way of playing?3- Describe the impact of the lake on the overall atmosphere of the photo.4- Do you agree it do not look as play time but fight time?!

• Harmony: "Mysterious Sadness"

1- Three, less or more elements are there in the photo?2- looking at the arrangement of them, are they convenient with each other?3- Do you think moving the bird from its place would give the same wonderful seen obvious in the photo now?4- Think about different colors for the three elements that would give even better harmony.

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• Scale: "Eat the Amount Keeping You Alive"

1- Specify the biggest and the smallest element in the photo.2- Without having the finger in the photo would you be able to know how small the food is?3- Doesn’t the three kinds of food have another scales itself? 4- Do the photo support its title? How?

• Foreground and background: "Inspiring Fingers"

1- Specify both the foreground and background.2- What is happening in this photo?3- What is the thing that surround the woman in the photo?4- Do you agree the photo would be dull without the woman?

______________________________________________________________Name: AHLAM OTHMAN AL-KHAIARI

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