Final Exam

Reading Visual Arts (GE 20)

Name: Kent Lawrence M. Cortez Code: 5239 Time: 7:30 – 8:30 PM Permit #:
Test I: Definition of Terms
1. Semiotic Principle – it makes a contribution to natural language meaning
theory. It proposes a semantic theory based on a set of logically coherent
relationship rules that enable semantic theory to define links between lexical
and figurative contextual readings of a word.
2. Reading the Real - to read visual items as having meaning or to see
anything more than their obvious or functional identity in them.
3. Visual Narrative - used to communicate the content. To communicate the
story, still photography, art, or video can be utilized, as well as graphics,
music, voice, and other noises.
4. Narrative Writing - a work of fiction with a main character in a setting who
encounters a problem or participates in a fascinating, important, or
entertaining action or event.
5. Narratology - a humanities course focused to the logic, principles, and
practices of story representation.
Test II:
Subtopics under this topic - “Terms and operational meaning of Media as Spectacular”
1. Contemporary Art, it means “the art of today,”
2. Imagine Community meaning is a group of people who belong to a community
with similar interests, even if they have never met.
3. Interpellation means to use in almost every aspect of our society, especially in
the marketing of merchandise.
4. Media refers to the communication channels we disseminate news, music,
movies, education, promotional messages, and other data.
5. Society is a group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.
6. The spectacle is something exhibited to view an unusual, notable, or
entertaining.
Authors /proponents of our lessons indicated in week 8-9
7. Claude Lefort
8. Benedict Anderson
9. Guy Debord
11 subtopics from week 1- 7
10. Seeing as Reading 15. New Technologies of Seeing
11. Seeing in Context 16. Seeing and Sense
12. Techniques of Seeing as 17. Images and Sign
Reading 18. Everyday Life as Narrative
13. Seeing as Literacy 19. The Field of Artistic Production
14. Arresting reality 20. Modernity as a Way of Seeing
Basic Elements of Story
21. Plot – what happened and why
22. Narrator – the perspective from which the story is told
23. Characters – human or otherwise
24. Events – everything that occurs to or as a result of the characters in the story.
25. Time and place in which those events take place, and the causal relations which
link the events together.
Test III: Visualization

Birds brush the morning dew off their feathers and sing a happy melody that
would cheer even the most depressed of moods as the sun slowly peeps over the
range of mountains. The mountain range is engulfed in a gentle fog that reaches out
to touch every living thing that exists there. The tender coolness in the air causes a
faint shiver, but not enough to necessitate a jacket. The trees sway and tremble with
laughter as a wind tickles them. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of trees in
the hopes of reaching the wet mountain soil. The mountains are the perfect location
to live if you want to unwind, take in the scenery, and never grow bored.
Way back when we're still in our senior years in high school, my friends and I
went mountain climbing. It was such a great experience, and I will surely have those
memories for the rest of my life. The scenery was perfect, away from the noises of the
city, the calming music from the hummingbird, and the laugher that we shared with my
friends. The mountains have a soothing effect, making them ideal for releasing tension
and allowing serenity to enter one's spirit.
Climbing a mountain may be a thrilling, gratifying, and life-changing experience.
Although climbing a mountain may be one of life's greatest achievements, it is about
more than panoramic vistas, summit pleasure, or real wilderness experience. Climbing
mountains is a difficult task that entails risk, danger, and suffering. But if the
opportunity to climb a mountain presents itself again, I would gladly grab the amazing
opportunity.