Visual Rhetoric

Have you ever had a problem visually describing a story? Well, the essay on visual rhetoric gives us just the example we need to visually enhance our story. Katherina Lorenz gives us a description of the Pompeian painting and then explains to us why the picture is the way it is. She goes on to explain that these paintings were not created just for visual pleasure but to give us an insight in Pompeian painting. By learning to make a more structured visual rhetoric we can improve the way our narrative comes across and give better understanding to our audience.
An example of a visual rhetoric would be on page 670, the last paragraph. She explains the picture of Scavo De Principal Di Montenegro and that both Andromeda and the Satyr figure are dressed in lightly colored garments and have a bare shoulder. She includes that Perseus and the Satyr both have short hair and are closely intertwined in the picture. She concludes by saying that their are two visual viewers here, on that interprets Perseus as powerful while the other interprets the Gorgoneion as powerful. This description of a visual rhetoric gives us just what we need, a good visual description of whats happening.