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High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/image

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the technological milestone in image reproduction?The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440
2. What is the first permanent photograph?Heliograph by Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826-1827
3. What is an image and how do we see it?An image is a picture that shows something. Light from the object bounces or passes through it and reaches our eyes, letting us see color, shape, and texture.
4. How did people make pictures before computers?Long ago people painted on cave walls and used pigments. Later, they invented printing presses to copy pictures, making them available to many people.

Iconography: The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.
Semiotics: The study of signs and symbols and their interpretation.
Pixel: The smallest controllable element of a picture represented on a screen.
Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real.