Class# 11 Followup: The Semiotics of Survival

Class# 11 Followup: The Semiotics of Survival

Lecture Followup Questions:

Describe which type of representation each image is below (Iconic, Symbolic, Indexical, or more than one?) and explain why :


1.

Holbein, Hans /Younger/ Sir Thomas More,  oil on canvas, 1527

This would be considered iconic because this is royalty someone important the way he is dressed and to be painted from 1527 says a lot about his status back then and to understand it now.

2.

 Yves Klein, Anthropometry ANT 85, 1960. 155.5 x 352.5cm. 
(body prints of female models painted with his universal blue) 

This is indexical because it's showing the painted bodies of women and it shows how different women can be from shapes and sizes.
3.

This would fall under the category  of indexical because this is a form of expression as for me to know it means heart aka love it's basically written.

4.

Francesca Woodman,  35 mm Photograph

I believe this one to be symbolic because I feel like she's sitting there in person but her spirit is out of her body and leaving through the door as if she's not completely there.