Terms Defined From Readings

 

Rhett Barlowe

Art 1102-102

Professor Nystrom

February 2nd 2021

Terms From Readings

1. Icon - It means any image can be used to represent something like a person, place, thing or an idea. An icon is like a blank slat that we visually see. We recognize this slat and give it life by creating it into something of our own. It's unique for being something to perceived and transformed into ideas we come up with. 

2. Denotation - A visual communication, something that visually says or shows what a thing is. It is something suggesting to be what is shown visually. It can be shown verbally, written and in letters such as typography. 

3. Connotation - Something not explained in the form of an image or by text and its form and style it may be portrayed in. It suggest things to you that are not given right away. It opens your mind to ideas the image might bring.  

4. Semiotics - The studies of signs, symbols and how they communicate. An object is the sign or the symbol, the representamen is what the sign is trying to communicate. The interpretant is the cultural convention surrounding the sign. 

5.  Tone - This depicts the way something is perceived. Typography can have a tone and display something its trying to communicate visually through the manner of the style of the lettering. 

6. Metaphor - Something that compares another thing with something else to better conclude a message.