Sunday, June 12, 2011

Interactions between the three levels

Representational

- identify what role it plays in the whole: 
    The picture is of a chair. It represents to us the visual information that we are looking at a chair. 

- describe what kind of impact it has:
   When you see chair, you think furniture. It is just some place for us to sit as well as a decoration to tie more then just one piece of furniture together. 

- how it relates to the other two levels: 
The abstract level shows us that although the picture is representational because what we see is a chair, it is a non-taditional chair, and while we are shown a chair, we are also shown a symbol of love. 

Abstract

- identify what role it plays in the whole: 
   We see here a chair in the shape of a heart. It is abstract in the sense that heart does not really look like that, and a chair does not traditionally look like a heart. 

- describe what kind of impact it has:
  It has an impact on us by showing us that a chair does not have to have four legs a back and arm rests. It shows us love and intensity through the colors it presents us with. 

- how it relates to the other two levels:
While the chair may be non-traditional, we are also shown by the representational side that it is in fact a chair, and the symbol of a heart that describes more to us then a chair does. 

Symbolic

- identify what role it plays in the whole:
   When we represent a heart it is usually to show love to someone, and showing a picture of an actual heart beating in our chests is not something we like to think of as lovely. The symbol for a heart really does not look anything like a heart, yet we take it as it is. 

- describe what kind of impact it has:
    The heart chair symbolizes love and could be a thoughtful gift for someone on valentines day. It has an impact of being bold yet unrealistic, and possibly even comfortable. 

- how it relates to the other two levels:

The representational part is the chair in general, and the abstract part is the fact that it is more then just a chair. 

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