Please Read John Hendrix, This is Culture.
Share your thoughts about the article here. Â Consider questions like:
- What does Hendrix Define Illustration as?
- What does he mean when he calls illustration a “powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives” ? Â
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I personally see the article “This is Culture.” trying to explain why Illustration is more than most people think it is. In a way such as “Illustration is a powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives. ” So Illustration can be a gateway into someones daily life, their history, etc. While Hendrix defines Illustration as a form of “communication”, this can be interpreted as talking to the audience while not using verbal remarks, but just using imagery to tell a story.
I agree with you Edward, I would like to add to your comment and say that illustration can be underrated sometimes. It is a huge form of communication when you don’t want to communicate with words. Which reminds me of how back then the first methods of communications was through symbols/illustrations. Hendrix is right, illustrations have no boundaries, no limits, it can be anything you want it to be. Like they say a picture can mean a thousand words.
Hendrix defines illustration as communication, basely storytelling through our imagination or perception of things.
When he called illustration a “powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives”. He is basely stating that all things that we see and envision in our lives can be redirected or created from our imagination into an illustration, simply ART.
Hendrix defines illustration as a way to communicate to the world by telling a story. When you look at an illustration, you don’t just see it as an image, it’s visually communicating with you. So when he means when he calls illustration a powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives, he is saying that illustration can visually communicate what a drawing can do like showing expressions without showing any text or how it can change a person’s perspective.
Hendrix defies illustration as storytelling by the way of impactful images. The small characters you see are more that meets the eye . This form of art is everywhere and is profound in our visual lives because illustrators are constantly challenging themselves guiding there art with what inspires them. The viewer or audience is and will constantly be imoacted by the art significantly because of its artistic expression
Based on what I read, Hendrix sees illustration as a way to send a message that anyone can understand. An illustration speaks something that words cannot do, which brings out it’s power: being profound and shapes our vision. With an illustration, you can see something and tell what’s going on, and have no need for words.
Hendrix Define Illustration as not just images, a media or a style Illustration is storytelling and communication to saying something to our world. He calls illustration a “powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives because illustration can shape a young imagination, to show us what we don’t want to see, to put a face on an epic story, bring comfort in the midst of disbelief, and to shape our very history.
John Hendrix explains that illustration is not just images, media nor a style but a way to tell a story to people. It is a way to communicate with everyone around us by letting our illustration tell a story. Hendrix says that illustration has the power to shape a young imagination and show us what we don’t want to see; in the many things that he says to have the power to put a face on an epic story meaning to have a face that brings the story more suspense. He also says that illustration can be a visual way to communicate with how your drawing shows or doesn’t show expressions in order to change a person’s way of thinking.
Hendrix defines the word “Illustration” as a way of communicating to an audience that would perceive his work. The images drawn aren’t just to be seen as images but as a way of telling a story with the use of those drawings.
When he says that illustration is a powerful, profound, unpretentious shaper of our visual lives, he basically means that everything we see can be altered in a sense of our creative imaginations thus implementing them into a drawing of our own creation.
Henderix explains that Illustration is more than images but rather the face of our culture. Illustration is not defined as being a media but rather it gathes and connects different ideas under a united vision. Whether or not you are artistically trained, interested or none at all, to see an illustration you form your own opinions and vision of a subject, that alone makes illustrations profound.
Hendrix Defines Illustration as a form of communication through imagery. If an image has no story then it isn’t illustration. The way we communicate whatever we are trying to combat has no specific formats whither it is a drawing with a pencil or a computerized picture. Hendrix also sees illustration as a powerful, profound because it can communicate without language. Visually we are telling a story and it can have text, but one of the best illustrations doesn’t have any text yet we can all understand what the illustrator is trying to say.
Excellent observations! Illustration is indeed a “powerful, profound, and unpretentious shaper of our visual lives”.