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Visual Rhetoric

Visual Rhetoric. Justin Madsen. Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold. Analysis. What’s significant about the scenery in this piece of art?. What illusion does the fog/mist give?. What if Travis had made the scene a bedroom instead of a graveyard?.

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Visual Rhetoric

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  1. Visual Rhetoric Justin Madsen

  2. Nightmare – Avenged Sevenfold

  3. Analysis What’s significant about the scenery in this piece of art? What illusion does the fog/mist give? What if Travis had made the scene a bedroom instead of a graveyard? What is significant about the expressions of both the child and reaper? If Travis hadn’t added the Reaper into this piece, what effect would it lose over all?

  4. Appeal • Ethos- This cover was designed shortly after Jimmy Sullivan’s passing, as can be seen in the word foREVer on the tombstone • Pathos- It invokes confusion and sadness to those who don’t quite know the meaning behind the picture

  5. Background Info • Travis Smith designed this artwork in 2010, following Jimmy “Reverend Tholomew Plague(shortened to The Rev)” Sullivan’s death. He encompassed the thought that Jimmy’s death was a Nightmare (as the CD is named) for his friends, family and fans with a child sleeping under a tombstone with foREVer on it (symbolizing Jimmy will forever be in the hearts and minds of those he is survived by) with one eye open, as the Reaper watches over him,

  6. Composition • Travis’ use of lighting and color implies that it is nighttime in a dream-like state • The artwork is balanced with a scared child in “front” of a grinning Reaper coming up from “behind”

  7. Juxtaposition • The Reaper and child are juxtaposed; the Reaper coming from above from a dream, the child laying below in real life. Also, the smiling Reaper and scared child are an example of juxtaposition.

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