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[|Image Development and Design Strategies]
The visual arts involve the use of image sources and image-development and design strategies to transform ideas and experiences into visual images. (Note that “image” is used to describe all visual forms, both 2-D and 3-D.) Image sources provide the inspiration for the creation of an artwork. Image sources include: • emotions and feelings • ideas and concepts • imagination • memories • observation • other sensory experiences. Image-development strategies are the processes used to transform these ideas and experiences in a particular way for particular effects. Image-development strategies include:
 * distortion**—misrepresenting and pulling out of shape any part of an image


 * elaboration**—embellishing or adding detail to part or all of an image


 * exaggeration**—over-emphasizing or intensifying a portion or aspect of an image


 * fragmentation**—detaching, isolating, or breaking up part or all of an image


 * juxtaposition**—placing like or contrasting images or elements side-by-side in a way that changes the meaning or effect of each


 * magnification**—increasing the apparent size of some or all of the elements in an image


 * metamorphosis**—changing an image from one form to another


 * minification**—decreasing the apparent size of an image


 * multiplication**—reiterating or restating part or all of an image


 * personification**—giving human characteristics to nonhuman forms


 * point of view**—positioning the viewer physically relative to the created image


 * reversal**—turning inside out, inverting, transposing, or converting to the opposite an effect in all or a portion of an image


 * rotation**—revolving, moving, or rearranging an image or parts of an image


 * serialization**—repeating multiple variations of an image in connection with each other

(Source: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/arts_education/2002visualarts1112_artfoundstudioarts.pdf)
 * simplification**—making an image less complex by the elimination of details.