Popular Visual Culture

Collages
Miss Murphy
Grade 10 Art
What is popular visual culture?
What makes up YOUR
popular visual culture?
How does your popular visual culture

impact your identity?

The Project
What you will learn: visual literacy, critical thinking, your popular visual culture influences,
and how they impact YOUR identity

What is visual literacy? Visual literacy is the ability to interpret or make meaning of
information in the form of images

Why is this important? Popular visual culture surrounds you every day! These images are
saying more than you think. Once you analyze the real meaning, you can better understand
the underlying impact they are having
The Project
What we will be doing:

● Collecting images that are your popular culture influences

● Writing the real or underlying meaning of these images in your process
journal
● Making a collage of your popular visual culture influences
 Day 2
Popular Visual Culture Collages
Richard Hamilton
Barbara Kruger
Eight Self-Portraits
Untitled (The War for me to Become You)
1994
2008
 Day 3
Popular Visual Culture Collages
Collage
Overlapping – a partial covering by one material with another

Layering – lying over or under another

Unity – when all aspects of a composition work to create one effect; the combined meaning of a piece

Balance – an aesthetically pleasing orientation of visual elements

Symbol (Symbolize) – something that stands for or suggests something else

 Hannah Hoch
Wangechi Mutu
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last
Family Tree
2018
Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
1919-20
Popular Visual Culture Collage
1) How did you feel about this collage?

2) Do you see these images any differently now that

we’ve done this?

3) How so? What will you do differently now that you

are seeing these images critically?