{"id":19290,"date":"2013-11-27T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T03:15:55","slug":"ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19290 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/attachment\/19291\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwvsxk5Sr91rjatglo1_r2_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/attachment\/19292\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwvsxk5Sr91rjatglo3_r1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/attachment\/19293\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwvsxk5Sr91rjatglo4_r1_500-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ucresearch-tracing-back-the-visual-language-of\/attachment\/19294\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwvsxk5Sr91rjatglo2_r2_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ucresearch.tumblr.com\/post\/68186479712\/tracing-back-the-visual-language-of-comics-ucsd\">ucresearch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Tracing back the visual language of comics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>UCSD Psychologist and comics enthusiast Neil Cohn\u00a0believes cartoons have a sophisticated language all their own and a heritage that goes back to cave art.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The drive to tell stories with pictures certainly has deep roots. Stone age paintings in places such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chauvet_Cave\">Chauvet cave<\/a> in France seem to show scenes of galloping horses and pouncing lions, using techniques that would be familiar to graphic artists today. More advanced picture narratives appeared in works such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayeux_Tapestry\">Bayeux tapestry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblia_pauperum\">Paupers\u2019 Bibles<\/a>. In some indigenous Australian cultures, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_Australian_art\">sand drawings<\/a> are used as a regular part of discourse; in fact, drawing is so entwined with speech in the language of these cultures that you can\u2019t be considered fluent if you don\u2019t know the appropriate pictures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cohn carefully dismantles the language of comics in his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuallanguagelab.com\/vloc.html\"><em>The Visual Language of Comics<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0He is passionate about the way his ideas about visual language could influence art education. He points out that children naturally absorb language through imitation and mimicry. But that\u2019s not how we are taught art, where individuality is championed. \u201cOur culture is suppressing the biological desires for imitation.\u201d The result is that we never learn a fluent visual vocabulary, except a few simple symbols, such as stick men.<\/p>\n<p>A better approach, he says, would be to tap into children\u2019s innate language instinct by actively encouraging them to mimic others\u2019 drawing. He speaks from experience: from the age of eight, he obsessively copied figures from Disney until he was fluent in every aspect of Mickey Mouse\u2019s world. \u201cI was obsessed,\u201d he says. \u201cBy third grade I was teaching my class to draw them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2013\/nov\/24\/comics-language-neil-cohn-cartoons-grammar\">How the visual language of comics could have its roots in the ice age<\/a>\u00a0\u2192<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ucresearch: Tracing back the visual language of comics UCSD Psychologist and comics enthusiast Neil Cohn\u00a0believes cartoons have a sophisticated language all their own and a heritage that goes back to cave art. The drive to tell stories with pictures certainly has deep roots. 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