What Is A Visualist?

Question

This term seems to be reasonably popular, how come it is not in any dictionary?

Is it a real word, and what is its definition?

Answer 1

Louis Delluc is a French film director from the turn of the century who probably coined the word visualist as meaning "a photographic way of seeing" to describe the task of the camera to entice and enrich a scene. Jesuit Father Walter Jackson Ong is a consequential historian, philosopher and linguist of the twentieth-century who analyzed visualist tendencies in Western philosophic thought and referred to the French studies of existential philosopher Louis Lavelle on visualism. Visualist shows up online in the Merriam-Webster thesaurus, but this is a premium service, so I did not see the definition. The online urban dictionary does not define it but uses it as it defines Indivisual as a rogue visualist. It appears to be a word that has escaped the dictionary because it dwells in the metaphysical and philosophical realms.

Answer 2

It appears to be the new word on the horizon. Oxford English Dictionary doesn't have it listed (yet) It's the lexicon of the English language, so far it's only 21 volumes long. Wikipedia doesn't list the word either.

However, . . . . . .Shawnee State University 940 Second Street Portsmouth, Ohio 45662-4344 is offering courses for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visualist Digital Design & Interactive Media. http://www.shawnee.edu/acad/fine/visdr.html After the student meets general education requirements and carries 16 hours of general electives they may take the following courses for their degree.

Art Core Requirements 44 Hrs
Art Specialization (Choose Design or Imaging Track) 52 hrs
Art Studio Electives (16 Hrs. may be shosen from outside concentration, choose any ARTS or ARTG courses.) 40 Hrs

So, it's out there, wherever "there" is.

This site http://www.artmolds.com/ali/pdf/R_W_Butler_ALI.pdf is for the "Visualist" R W Butler and has this explanation:

"Visualist" is a term for someone who provides creative visual understanding. A visualist thinks and communicates visually. It's visual story telling and idea sharing. A visualist takes difficult concepts and reduces them to simpler terms so that a complicated idea or emotion can be more easily understood. Visualism includes the disciplines of graphics, illustration,
sculpture photography and design – artist R. W. Butler is certainly all of those things."

Sounds a bit "artsy" to me. It appears to me they (whoever "they" are) took a noun and made it a verb because they were too lazy to pick up a thesarus or dictionary. So now what? We're gonna have Visual, Visualer and Visualist? Hey Visualsim is out there, too. Sorry for the mini rant. Does this help?

Oh, my spell checker doesn't like this one at all (chuckle).

Answer 3

I think that it has to do with a certain way a person perceives things. It could be a person that has a great imagination (visualizing a situation, or event) while reading a story, or finding a personal meaning to something such as a painting, architecture, etc.

Answer 4

There are many people who would make fun of the possibility of altering their destinies. This is due to the fact that it believes that no one gets more that exactly what is put in his fate.

Answer 5

visualist--not in the dictionary
broken down:
-ist means one that does
visual means able to see or produce an image in the mind

one who sees

Answer 6

A person that does visualization.

Answer 7

dont know if it is a real word but it would be someone who has vision, or is a visionary

Answer 8

seeing, vision, a visualizer.i think it is a vision person.....or something....like a person w/ bad vision or something

Answer 9

a person who has vision

Answer 10

somebody who comes up with ideas.