peaceful visual rhetoric

Here is an example of visual rhetoric which was found in a blog that was also for a rhetoric course. The example is a very simple wall paper that there are just two hands with some paint in a purple background, but I think it has deep meanings.

In the wall paper, two painted hands hold each other and these two connected hands look like the earth. The author delivers a message “unity” to all people in the world. So the entire human race is the audience of this visual rhetoric.

When people look at this wall paper, the tinted warm color will be the first impression of this imagine. Those light blue and purple colors give a peaceful feeling to the audience. Then those skin colors and some green express some natural. These colors are considered as pathos to give the audience a peaceable emotion.

Beside colors, two connected hands give the audience much feeling such as trust, help and so on. Moreover, there are little logos with pathos. Two hands are different in colors, but they form “the earth”. These two hands help author connect all people together by a common point: earth. Because earth is the home for all people, this logically implies all people are families. And it gives the audience an emotion about loving other people, even though some people are in different races.

For my opinion, this example of visual rhetoric persuades people easily with its pathos and logos.