They (Foreground, Background and Point of View) bound with visual perception through multi-angles. (Pope 208)

1. Thing in a distance you hardly aware of

2. Position where you see the product

3. Thing catching your attention (closest to you)

• Point of view

• Background

• Foreground

Perspective in Art and Architecture

Psychology of visual perception

Way of seeing ~ way of saying (causal relation)

Language modern psychological terms, is the primary symbolic system through which we differentiate and categorize the worlds within and around us.

Lacan, Subject’s entry into language is the primary condition for the perception of difference.

Words = expression and repression

Recognize background, foreground and share your point of view.

Hunger Games

New critics and Formalist’s concept

Foreground=literature=primary text

Background = society/history=context

Prefer to get pleasure from art product in their ways

Marxists

Feminist

Post colonial critics

1. ForegroundBackground

2. Mona Lisa is seen as a wife of rich merchant Zanoki del Gioncondo

(A Marxist)

3. Sideway view of the Louvre; shifting function from picture hang in the palace to state museum

(A New Historicists)

4. Seeing Mona Lisa (female symbol) as subject/object of art

(A Feminist)

5. Compare the icon used in modern era with the original.

(A Postmodernist)

6. Clothes and style (A fashion critics)

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Foregrounding – Functionalism

The object is turned to be noticeable/ conspicuous through imagery, unusual words combinations, sound patterning, metre, rhyme, inverted or unusual word order.

Existence of defamiliarisation

i.e., in pun

A: My dog smells awful. How does yours smell?

B: With his nose

in quips; Today I got up at the crack of lunchtime.

Within and outside text

Actual author’s attitudes and values

i.e., a book by Benjamin Franklin called The Way to Wealth or Shakespeare's Scarlet Letter

(overtly author gives his/her words to the reader; sometimes a kind of judgment line)

Narrator’s point of view

1. First

2. Second

3. Third

Character’s point of view

Implied reader’s point of view

“The hypothetical reader that a work is addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes, etc.”

(collinsdictionary.com)

Actual reader’s responses (opposite of implied)

Background, Foreground and point of view are here to proffer viewers, readers, and art-product consumers to enjoy artist’s creation with a certain flavor, and other options are the compliments.

If you are a dietitian, food combining is healthier than one menu, only.

Pope, Rob. The English Studies Book: An introduction to language, literature and culture. 2002. New York: Routledge. Print

Collinsdictionary.com

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