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Visual Language: Why Rules?
Golden ratio, colour composition, perspective: why not simply paint whatever I want? Because pictures speak. Two chapters on grammar, freedom and the history of visual language.
2 Modules · about 35 min
- 1Why Rules? Pictures Are a LanguageYou understand why the golden ratio, colour composition and perspective aren't shackles but a shared language, and why there are still many correct languages.15 min
- 2A Short History of Visual LanguageIn ten stations you'll learn how the grammar of pictures has changed, from the cave to the sketchbook, and why each station was a complete language in its own right.20 min