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    This document discusses how visual culture, including print media and advertisements, can be analyzed and interpreted using concepts of conservation and ecology. It relates visual culture to how people interpret and decode the true meanings and messages behind commercial imagery in their daily lives. The document argues that teaching students to understand and analyze different forms of visual media is important, as it will help them better comprehend the media and culture that surrounds them and be able to think critically about the messages behind various images and objects they encounter.

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    This document discusses how visual culture, including print media and advertisements, can be analyzed and interpreted using concepts of conservation and ecology. It relates visual culture to how people interpret and decode the true meanings and messages behind commercial imagery in their daily lives. The document argues that teaching students to understand and analyze different forms of visual media is important, as it will help them better comprehend the media and culture that surrounds them and be able to think critically about the messages behind various images and objects they encounter.

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    AlyssaGlantz

    Art133
    Unit2Paper
    02.18.16
    Theconceptsofconservationandecologycanbedescriptiveofvarioustypesofartand
    media.Visualcultureisatopicthatmanyartistshavediscussedandexpandedbecauseofits
    rapidgrowthandpopularityintodaysmedia.Withprintmedia,magazinesandadvertisements,
    visualculturehasbeenawaytoanalysethemeaningsbehindcommercialimagery(Hurwitz&
    Day,2007).Everyoneinterpretsvisualculturedifferentlywhichisthendecoded,unravelingthe
    truemessage.Denotationsandconnotationsaretermsusedtodefinewhatweliterallyseeina
    pictureversusthethingsweareseeingandwhattheysuggestorimply(Barrett,2003).Thisidea
    ofvisualculturerelatestotheconceptsofconservationandecologybecauseitdisplaystheuse
    ofdailyinterpretationoftheworldaroundandtheuseofitsmeans.
    Interpretingvisualcultureisanimportantconceptforstudentstolearnintheclassroom.
    Withtheunderstandingandanalysisofdifferentformsofmedia,studentswillbeableto
    understandtheprintmediaandculturearoundthem.Studentsareexposedtomanytypesof
    commercialimagerywhichcanbeveryinfluential.Ifstudentsareexposedtothisdecoding,they
    willlearnthetoolstounderstandanddecipherthemessagebehindtheimagesorobjects(Barrett,
    2003).Visualcultureshouldbeexplainedintheclassroomtohelpencouragestudentstothink
    deeperintowhatmediameansandhowtheyinterpretthatmediaintheireverydaylives.
    References
    Barrett,T.(2003).Interpretingvisualculture.
    ArtEducation,56
    (2),612
    Hurwitz,A.,&Day,M.(2007).
    Childrenandtheirart:Methodsfortheelementaryschool
    ,(8th
    ed.).ThompsonWadsworth.

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