T1| Fact Vs Fiction: Your Conviction.

The Power to Tell the Difference: Visual Literacy in a Visual Age by Don Levy. 

In this text Levy speaks of the distinction between fact and fiction in a visual world and just how distinct this line is.

What I was left with after watching Levy speak was your belief in whether the visual information is factual or fictional lies with your conviction of the text.  The creator of the text wants to persuade you, and you have to decide whether or not you buy into their argument.

 

For example.

Rigard, Hyacinthe. Portrait of Louis XIV. 1701. Oil on Canvas.

Fact: he is the King.  He is an Absolutist.  Fact/Fiction: he was Absolute.

In King Louis XIV’s time he was perceived as not just the King, but the be-all-end-all.  The logos of his Majesty’s ethereal power exudes from the portrait.  People of the era, with the technology and knowledge available to them, believed that he was Absolute.

 

Texts Referenced:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09ybYDJoSE