Vision
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The seagulls by their looks suggest that Emma is their name" -- "The Seagulls" (1905) by Christian Morgenstern But what I'd like to know --"Visions" (1973) by Stevie Wonder "A studious blind man, who had mightily beat his head about visible objects, and made use of the explication of his books and friends, to understand those names of light and colours which often came in his way, bragged one day, That he now understood what scarlet signified. Upon which, his friend demanding what scarlet was? The blind man answered, It was like the sound of a trumpet." --An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) John Locke "I have a dream"--"I Have a Dream" (1963) by Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Illustration: Drawing for the interior view of the Théatre de Besançon (1784) by Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Illustration: The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich by (1885) by Gabriel Cornelius von Max
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Vision or visual may refer to:
- Visual perception, interpreting what is seen
- Visual system, the sensory mechanism of eyesight
- Vision (spirituality), inspirational experiences
- Hallucination, vivid conscious perception in the absence of a stimulus
Etymology
From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin vīsiō (“vision, seeing”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (“that which is seen”), from the verb videō (“I see”) + action noun suffix -iō.
Visual
Visual is related to or affecting the vision and the eye.
- Visual arts
- Visual communication
- Visual culture
- Visual dictionary
- Visual perception
- Visual poem
- Visual system
- Visual thinking
- Visualization
See also
- Blind
- Dream vision
- Foresight
- Image
- Inner vision
- Mental image
- Perception
- Seeing is believing
- Senses
- Show
- Sight
- Television
- Video
- View
- Visionary
