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    Semiotics Is The Study of Signs and Their Meanings. Signs Include Words, Gestures. Images

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    The document discusses three planes of analyzing art: 1. The semiotic plane examines all elements of a work as potential meaning conveyors, like colors or objects. 2. The iconic plane analyzes the specific features, aspects, and qualities of images that are representational signs. It considers the social implications of the subject. 3. The contextual plane situates the work in its historical and social context to understand the full meaning and dialog between art and society. The meaning of a work involves complex concepts and experiences beyond just visual analysis.

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    The document discusses three planes of analyzing art: 1. The semiotic plane examines all elements of a work as potential meaning conveyors, like colors or objects. 2. The iconic plane analyzes the specific features, aspects, and qualities of images that are representational signs. It considers the social implications of the subject. 3. The contextual plane situates the work in its historical and social context to understand the full meaning and dialog between art and society. The meaning of a work involves complex concepts and experiences beyond just visual analysis.

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    PLANES IN ART

    SEMIOTIC PLANE

    Semiotics is the study of signs and their meanings. Signs include words, gestures. images,
    sounds, and objects. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, a founder of modern semiotics, sign
    consists of two parts: the signifier (the form which the sign takes) and the signified (the concept
    represents).

    This is the plane wherein the viewer considers the elements of the work. Every part of the
    work is to be considered as a potential meaning conveyor. This simply means that each aspect,
    whether it is as trivial as a rock on sand or the color of clouds, contributes to the overall impact
    of the work. The mere presence of an object or material is already an evidence of its
    significance. Example, La Tragedia de Gobernador Bustamante and Spoliarium.

    ICONIC PLANE

    The term icon pertains to a single image with a unique meaning. Although this plane is
    concerned with the image, and may be confused as being part of the semiotic plane, an analysis
    in the iconic level mainly fits with representational or figurative art, as opposed to the semiotic
    plane that deals more with abstract art. Here it is not that material elements of the work that
    are dealt with as in the basic semiotic plane, but this has to do with the particular features,
    aspects, and qualities of the image which are the signifiers. The iconic plane includes the choice
    of the subject which may bear social and political implications..

    Contextual Plane

    Here one proceeds from the basic semiotic and iconic planes and the knowledge and
    insights one has gained from these into the social and historical context of the work of art.
    Resituating the work in its context will bring out the full meaning of the work in terms of its
    human and social implications. The viewer draws out the dialogic relationship of art and society.
    As has been said earlier, the meaning of a work is a complex that involves concepts, values,
    emotions, attitudes, atmospheres, sensory experiences that arise from the three planes. The
    experience of a work cannot be reduced or paraphrased to a statement, such as a moral lesson
    or message, but is a total experience involving the faculties of the whole person-not just his eyes
    or his senses, but his mind and emotions as well.

    Prepared by:

    Ordillano, Jonah Mae

    Dela Cerna, Nica Nicole

    Espayos, Armina Rose

    Sarmiento, Francis Maoi

    "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

    - Leonardo da Vinci

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