Art FoundationSample Class & brief

This presentation had been designed for the considerationof Saint Olaf College’s Search Committee.It attempts to abide by the rules and regulations explainedin the Graphic Standard Manual but by no meansit should be considered as an o�cial documentof said Institution whatsoever.

It only serves the purpose of conveying a more professionalsense of reality to it during the presentation.

March 2009.

Guido E. Alvarez

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Perception &Visual Poetics

toperceiveI MEAN...

verb [ trans. ]1 become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand .

2 interpret or look on (someone or something) in a particular way; regard as.

POEMnouna piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmi-cal, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

motifnouna decorative design or pattern.a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.Music a short succession of notes producing a single impression.

compositionnounThe action of putting things together; formation or construction : the composition of a new govern-ment was announced.Linguistics the formation of words into a compound word.• Mathematics the successive application of func-tions to a variable, the value of the �rst function being the argument of the second, and so on : composition of functions, when de�ned, is associa-tive.

CONCRETEPOETRY

noun (SHOULD ALSO BE A VERB!)poetry in which the meaning or e�ect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means,using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices