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What is Visual Language? How does the Visual Grammar work?

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Visual Realism Visual realism has influenced an individual life for many decades since the pre-history age. Ancient people used to draw, paint and sculpture on the cave to communicate and record what they saw or hunt in daily life; for instance, animal painting on Apollo 11 cave in Namibia and bison reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d’Audoubert, AriĆ©ge, France (Kleiner, 2015). Visual became the reality for human perception when the signifier is used as signified meaning of a thing. In the present age, people make use of a sign in the broad area especially in the digital world; icon, symbol and index are implied to represent the reality. Visual communication becomes another dominant language for human society and drives viewer perception far beyond the text-based communication age. Many forms of the visual text have been invented and be used in human societies; some textual is recirculated to use at different times and places again and again as long as it can be served the need of societ...

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