Engineering

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Diane:
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At the risk of being tedious, I'll say here again that people who make pictures are thinking in words - and if one can identify the words informing the expression of an image, it can be very helpful for correct interpretation and correct identification of source culture and period.

I'm not sure this is true.

When you say "people who make pictures are thinking in words" are you referring to illustrators or artists (or both)? The statement might be true for illustrators, who are expressly trying to get an idea across... I don't know how much research there is on this.

I know many artists and some of them have great difficulty expressing things in words but even if they are good with words, when one sits and draws, there's a connection between the eye-brain and the darks-lights/shapes and I don't see how words are a part of that unless one is expressly illustrating a storyline or textual passage.