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Interdisciplinary Writing 134

Visual Intelligence & Verbal Intelligence

Thinking always includes both visualand verbal dimensions.

They are not always explicit and may need to be teased out.

Visual Intelligence & Verbal Intelligence

Art in general is a form of reasoning through which the artist makes sense of the world and the works of others;

Art, visual or verbal, explores issues and ideas that are relevant to us;

Ideas come from making connections; Connections are made by juxtaposition and

sequence, etc., between parts & Whole; Meaning is generated from careful

connections/juxtaposition, etc.; Sequence entails consequences;

Chinese Radicals (Latin Radix for Root)

Visual Hint/Connection

木 Tree/Wood

林 Grove

森 Forest

A Character Is not a Box; Instead, It Is a Doorway…

Level 1— 杉 松 枫 橡 shān sōng fēng xiàng

Fir Pine Maple Oak

Level 2— 桃 李 梨 杏 táo lǐ lí xìng

Peach Plum Pear Apricot

Level 3--- 床 桌 椅 柜 chuáng zhuō yǐ guì

Bed Table/Desk Chair Cabinet

Chinese vs. English In CHINESE writing, you can SEE the

clue on meaning: Example: MU In ENGLISH, you have to VISUALIZE Imagine a TREE, recall what THINGS look like Your Third Eye/Mind's eye: the human ability

for visualization, i.e., for the experiencing of visual mental imagery; in other words, one's ability to "see" things with the mind.

Three Kinds of SignsCharles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

A sign contains patterned /relational information

Icon—Resemblance or Similarities Index—Correlative in space & time

Smoke/fire; dark clouds/rain Symbol—Removable from the

original contexts; associated with larger concept

Unexpected JuxtapositionPulitzer-Winning Photograph

Kevin Carter, 1993

Marginalia/Description Marginalia: Notes in the

margin

Description Descriptive

paragraphs convey how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels.

Transitional words and phrases mostly clarify spatial relationships.

Describe the picture in a logical manner

(Structure) Juxtaposition Creates Meaning

Isolated, the two images remain inert (Alfred North Whitehead,1861-1947, in his book The Aims of Education, 1929); connected, they come to life;

The artistic eye (Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 1915);

What does Carter suggest through the vulture/girl connection/juxtaposition?

What difference does it make if we swap the position between the vulture and the girl?

Narrative quality in visual art;

Structure/JuxtapositionAppositional/Oppositional

Juxtaposition, an act or instance

of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast; the state of being close together or side by side.

Harmony Tension Unexpectedness

in artistic juxtaposition

Defamiliarization)

William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow : The 1923 poem

Appears in Spring and All

(1923)

William Carlos Williams(September 17, 1883 – March 4,

1963)

an American poet He was also a pediatrician and general

practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician"; but during his long lifetime, Williams excelled at both.

“The Red Wheelbarrow”Connection/Sequence

Pictorial Poetry

so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rainwater

beside the whitechickens.

Enjambment--breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses.

The term is directly borrowed from the French enjambement, meaning "straddling" or "bestriding".

The Missing “It” Seeing IN

SEQUENCE. Follow the lines of the poem.

They CONTROL ATTENTION.

ASSOCIATIONS are not Random

Relational Dependence

upon each other Deliberate

Breaks Freshness in

something familiar

Subject matter: everyday life

Paul BergerDeliberate Juxtaposition/Connection

Authorial/Artistic Intention

Drawing ConnectionsDescribe Textual Details

Goggles Gas mask

(mustard gas, WWI/WWII)

Barracks (Army House)

Sun glasses Posing (natural or

unnatural) House

Juxtaposition/Sequence

A Grid

Paul BergerSequence/Connection

Placement CONTROLS ATTENTION. Connections by ELEMENTS Connections by Sameness &

Difference Connections by FORM Connections by ASSOCIATION

Description/Larger Purpose

Descriptive Language Descriptive paragraphs convey how

something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels. (126)

Transitional words and phrases mostly clarify spatial relationships.

Spatial order—establishes the perspective from which readers view details. For example, an object or scene can be viewed from top to bottom or from near to far. Spatial order is central to descriptive paragraphs.

Juxtaposition: The Last KissFeng Zikai

（ 1898.11.9 － 1975.9.15 ）

Mother vs. baby

Impersonal touch in adoption/ orphanage business

Double-Column NotebookWhile A to B is like this, C to D is like that

Mother Dog vs. Puppies

Where is the cutting edge?

St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia/

Former Berlin Pankow orphanage

The Block Method: discuss one work in its entirety before taking up the other one;

The Block Structure (360)vs. the Alternating Structure (361)

The Alternating Approach: moving back and forth between two works; offer point-to-point analysis

Motif Identification a usually recurring salient

thematic element (as in the arts); especially : a dominant idea or central theme

a single or repeated design or color

The Americans (1958)Robert Frank

Cover Page PhotoThe Americans by Robert Frank

2 City fathers-Hoboken, New Jersey

7 Navy Recruiting Station, Post Office-Butte, Montana

37 Bar-Detroit

Review 1. Thinking always has verbal & visual elements 2. ALL IDEAS COME FROM CONNECTIONS --by IMAGE ELEMENT (visible appearance) --by CONCEPTS (many things share a concept) --by MOTIF (element that links several things) --by THEME (many things ABOUT same issue) --by STRUCTURE (hierarchy, strategy, shape) --by ASSOCIATION (emotion, events, etc.) 3. All ARGUMENTS depend on SEQUENCE 4. All COMPOSITION depends on a HISTORY.