IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STRATEGIES
The visual arts involve the use of image sources and image-development and design strategies to transform ideas and experiences into visual images. (Note that “image” is used to describe all visual forms, both 2-D and 3-D.) Image sources provide the inspiration for the creation of an artwork. Image sources include:
Image development strategies are the processes used to transform these ideas and experiences in a particular way for particular effects.
They include:
(Source: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/arts_education/2002visualarts1112_artfoundstudioarts.pdf)
- emotions and feelings
- ideas and concepts
- imagination
- memories
- observation
- other sensory experiences.
Image development strategies are the processes used to transform these ideas and experiences in a particular way for particular effects.
They include:
- distortion — misrepresenting and pulling out of shape any part of an image
- elaboration — embellishing or adding detail to part or all of an image
- exaggeration — over-emphasizing or intensifying a portion or aspect of an image
- fragmentation — detaching, isolating, or breaking up part or all of an image
- juxtaposition — placing like or contrasting images or elements side-by-side in a way that changes the meaning or effect of each
- magnification — increasing the apparent size of some or all of the elements in an image
- metamorphosis — changing an image from one form to another
- minification — decreasing the apparent size of an image
- multiplication — reiterating or restating part or all of an image
- personification — giving human characteristics to nonhuman forms
- point of view — positioning the viewer physically relative to the created image
- reversal — turning inside out, inverting, transposing, or converting to the opposite an effect in all or a portion of an image
- rotation — revolving, moving, or rearranging an image or parts of an image
- serialization — repeating multiple variations of an image in connection with each other
- simplification — making an image less complex by the elimination of details.
(Source: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/arts_education/2002visualarts1112_artfoundstudioarts.pdf)