>>3278023No, visual literacy describes your awareness of existing visual lexicon that visual artists often tap into for making referential work. When you lack visual literacy, you lack the ability to recognize glaring faults of your processing technique (like oversharpening artifacts or halos in your trees) or to recognize symbolic meaning in chosen subject matter.
There is also cultural literacy, which has interplay with the concept. You might not be able to discern a story from tarot cards, but someone with enough visual literacy to understand left = past and right = future (in the west) and a cultural awareness high enough to recognize common symbolism and systems of representation can easily cobble a story out of the cards, not only in their numbered order, but in nearly any order they can be shuffled towards.
Yes, art really is that pretentious. Calling an artist a twat won't usually result in any argument. You're just going to have to get over it and realize that some people are creative and informed enough to find meaning in what you find gibberish.
Your inability to recognize this obvious fact (you cannot, after all, speak every language on earth) is nothing but testament to your own limited grasp over the faculties of reason, logic, or deduction.
Some people are idiots, and that is ok. I hope you live a happy life.
