The Significance of Three Key Elements in Shaping Visual Culture

This essay delves into the three elements critical to visual culture, as identified by British scholar Gillian Rose: symbols, values, and languages. It emphasizes the importance of taking visual images seriously, considering the social conditions in which they were created, and understanding how individual interpretation shapes their meaning. The essay reflects on how visual arts play a significant role in human lives, fostering interest and engagement through effective artistic expression. The increasing popularity of visual arts underscores their profound impact on contemporary culture and individual perspectives.

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Three Elements Critical to Visual Culture
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Visual Culture is generally referred to the form of culture which includes the culture
that is expressed in the form of visual images. These visual images belong to the category of
cultural studies, art history, philosophy, media studies as well as various other forms of
studies which the human beings can avail themselves of. It is being said by manty experts
that the visual arts require three elements which are critical for its success. Even I believe in
the fact that the visual arts require three elements for its success.
The purpose of this reflective response is to find out the three elements necessary
to the visual arts and how they play an important role in my life.
In the article itself, I found that the British scholar as well as the author Gillian Rose,
has claimed the three elements are critical to the visual arts as it is these three elements which
would add to the effectivity of the visual arts (Block, 2013). These three elements, I believe
are the symbols, values and the languages which are associated with those of the visual arts
itself. The significance of the three elements will be explained in the following paragraphs.
In the article itself, the author and the British scholar Gillian Rose has used in the
articles itself is the matter of taking images seriously. It is essential for the individuals that
they take the visual images seriously and try to gather as much information as they can from
the images themselves. Thus, it can be stated from this fact itself that the visual images tells
the audiences about the images itself (Rose, 2014).
Similarly, the second element which the author had talked about the social conditions
of the times in which the visual images were drawn. This tells the audience about the visual
images of the times itself. The third element as stated by the author is the way in which an
individual looks at the images itself (Rose, 2014). The way the individual sees the image
helps the individual to interpret the image in the way he/she likes the image. Thus, these

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forms the three elements of the visual culture as stated by the author Gillian Rose (Heywood
et. all, 2017).
Thus, from the information, in the above paragraphs, it can be concluded that the
visual arts indeed play an important role in the lives of the human beings including myself. It
is because of the visual arts that the people are more interested in the art itself. If the art is
used properly, then it one of the most popular visual art forms in the world itself. Thus, it can
be said that the visual arts and their popularity has been increasing in the world day by day.

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