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What draws your
attention first in the text?
Why would the author
make this choice?
Does the author use
contrasting color? If so,
what effect does this
have?
Does the author use
writing in this visual text?
If so, what effect does the
writing have?
What elements are most
important in
understanding the
purpose? Why are these
the most important?
How does the visual text
make you feel? What
about the text makes you
feel this way? Is that the
text’s intention or
ENGL 1301
Text #1
The way everything is
under and overlapped
makes the art concept very
interesting.
Yes, since the painting is
black and white, and it
gives a sad/melancholic
feeling.
Yes. It states: “the
invisible wounds of
PTSD”. Explaining with
this, the whole theme of
suffering and cholera in
the drawing.
Both the drawings and the
text complete themselves
out so we can fully
understand the message
the author is trying to
share about PTSD, and not
something else.
The big, bold letters,
specifically with these
characteristics, make me
feel melancholic. I believe
that the contrast of the text
Visual Analysis Invention
Text #2
The style is beautiful. I’m
drawn by the design of the
wall and door arch located
in a jungle. The macaws
flying give life to the
piece.
The building is affected by
the light from the sun,
probably during sunset but
the contrast comes from
the very green jungle
behind the walls.
Yes. With the text we
understand that it is a book
cover. It has the name of
the author, the title of the
piece written in big, bold
letters. In addition, it says
“Premio Novel de
Literature” confirming us
that indeed it’s a book.
The title, name of the
author and the “Premio
Novel de Literature” are
all we actually need. The
art is only understood if
we start reading the book
itself.
The title makes me
intrigued to know what the
book is about. Also
knowing that the book
won a Novel Price of
Text #3
The very noticeable
brushes of paint used for
this single cover and the
way the artist used colors
to make an impression of
lights in the subway.
Yes, the white tones come
from the “tunnel” in the
back of the painting, and
as closer it gets to our
point of view it becomes
darker since there is no
source of light.
Yes. The image comes
with a phrase, identified as
the title of the song, and
also the logo from the
singer.
The phrase: “De la Vida
Como Pelicula y Su
Tragedia, Comedia y
Ficcion” which is the title
of the song, and the
singer’s logo. The painting
only makes sense when we
listen to the song.
Translated in english, the
text means “About Life as
a Movie and Its Tragedy,
Comedy and Fiction”.
This makes me reminisce
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purpose? Why or why and the image is done Literature adds to my about how life is strangely
not? purposely to make one feel curiosity. I think that this described with those 3
this way. is a kind of marketing words. The author would
strategy so that people buy have liked people to
the book. ponder this.
What does the visual text The text and art in the The image and text in it It gives me a mood of
suggest for you to think? image make me think suggest to me that the solitude. Since I relate the
What does it make you about people who have book is about a place in a text as something to
think about? Is that the suffered in life, unjustly jungle where people have ponder on, my
text’s intention or going though traumas that built structures and interpretation of the image
purpose? Why or why affect them their whole perhaps, they were is of how we think about
not? life. It is part of the “alone” for a period of a life the most when we are
purpose to make people hundred years. alone. I think that is the
wonder about how horrid intention of the author.
PTSD is.
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Why and so, what? What can you reveal to your classmates about it?

I chose this image because it is a work of art that I enjoy watching. The lighting is very well done, and the colors and tones used give a very
realistic yet dreamy and blurry experience to whoever sees this.

This gives me the illusion of unhappiness, however with a touch of comfort in it, because when I see it, I feel relaxed.

Now, how do you know? What five pieces of evidence do you have from the visual text to support your idea?

1. The colors are vivid when "light” touches them inside the painting.

2. The brush strokes make the objects inside the painting look blurry. This gives me the illusion of unhappiness, however with a
touch of comfort in it, because when I see it, I feel relaxation

3. Subways are often weird places if found alone.

4. We can find "find reflections" of the "light" inside the painting in objects that would normally reflect in real life.
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5. The painting has a very peculiar depth in it, because of the train tracks and how the wagons go further inside the painting, making
it appear far away with a cool effect by the artist.