DETERMINING VISUAL CULTURE PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS OF ART EDUCATION IN IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION

The aim of this research is to reveal the ability of students who are studying art to interpret visual culture images and to use cultural images and symbols to create visual language in their works. Of the qualitative research methods, auto-ethnographic method which is a subdimension of ethnographic approach was used in the research. The research was carried out with the voluntarily participation of 8 students studying in the second year of the Department of Art Education. The data obtained by visual studies and written texts of the students were analyzed by ethnographic analysis and content analysis. When the data were classified, 6 different categories were created. As a result of the analysis, it has been seen that students mostly use images on social change, family, lack of communication - social loneliness and technology themes. It has also been observed that visual culture application studies have developed critical thinking skills and the power of representation of student