Iconic Look

Thursdy 27th April 2006

Iconicity

In the modernized world of the 21st century, there are few artists that have inspired us, many has been culturally iconic. Iconic could mean many and different purposes. The meaning of the word is broad and could signify almost anything. For example, you could use iconic as a symbol on the monitor to show a command, or you could use iconic in a religion to symbolise an image or a symbolic. Just like an iconic for a legend or famous person to sell commodity, but however, in my side of the argument I am going to voice Che Guevara's political lifestyle and how culturally iconic fits in with simulacrum.










Culturally iconicity

Many heroic icons have inspired us throughout our time, each and every individual of us have considered being more than one icon, in every characteristic. These icons could be categorized on various stages like ultimate all time ring fighter Mohammed Ali from boxing, the incredible Michael Jackson from the entertainment industry graced with "gods gift" of dance moves. Pele and Maradonna from classic football, the political knowledge of Malcom X & Martin Luther King, and finally the flips and king of fighters, Bruce Lee in martial arts. All these characters that I've named have created a big effect towards themselves in one way or another by the public. People don’t refer to them as an main aspect towards their occupation or there fame, they portray images that are bigger & by how they were originated from. For example publicity try to identify Mohammed Ali as a different kind of meaning or theme that is associated with him, however these meanings are actually significant, but they don’t necessarily try to be that person really, they become more associated with that person instead. The main aspect that I am focusing on is Ernesto Guevara. The public criticize that his culture resembles to Jesus but generally he has nothing to do with Jesus in any sort of religious way. Che Guevara spent time in the jungle for a long period of time who hardly shaved his facial hair and the hairs on his head leading to many people saying Che is identified by his facial features that are similar to Jesus, therefore linking them together. There are also paintings and posters on churches which show an image of Jesus, but however people also see that painting as an image of Che Guevara making people feel uncomfortable or intimidated whilst in church, knowing that deep down they have been offended & disappointed. A lot of issues went on with the public, stating that there is only one Jesus & no-one should try to violate or imitate Jesus images that represents Christianity. No one should ever compare the reputation with Jesus & Che Guevara. Jesus wasn’t a person that was wild and went through war, he didn’t commit any violence compared to Che Guevara. People wasn't expecting anything like this because that’s not the image of Jesus they wanted to see.

Iconicity has various answers, but iconicity in my expression suggests that a symbolic image has a word to describe "Che" and also relates to "Che". For example in my mind the category that relates to Che Guevara are Cuba, Latin America, politics, economy, bravery, fashion, merchandise and etc. It’s a way to express someone, photographic plays a big part into iconicity. Here's a reference “this is Che Guevara” you are referring to its reference him itself. In this case the image you see of Che Guevara portrait.

Terminology

Thursday 23rd April

Eikon and Interface

Interface is from one to another from reality to virtual word, or means interaction, eg Renaissance mediaval to modern world Eikon gives a graphic point eg god gifts us believe which we cannot see, god is extend but with pictures and images in chruch etc represent or reference it.

Simulacrum

Simulacrum is from the Latin 'simulac'. An image that's lost in touch of what it referred to and now has an empty meaning, detachability of image throughout Technology. Copies of an object make the original meaningless.
William said ' to differenciate an product from another you use symbolic value. The image becomes detached from the product.
Advertising turns objects into signs and signifier e.g. a car advert, it no longer denotes the car but also connotes a symbolic value. The car gets turned into a sign of something else. The car becomes a sign or a value. William said advertising is a magic system because its similar to magical systems in societies as it turns material objects into signs of something unmaterial.
E.g. emotions on computers are signs, signs are enough to show how your feeling you don't physically need to laugh or cry. Once you have expressed your feeling through using the emotions on the computer.

Original copy Manipulated copy

Fraud

Thursday 15th March

Fraud (a)

Pun a play or a word (jokes)

• The architect whose career lies in ruins
• At the cirucs the human cannonball who wants to offer his resgnation only to be told we were going to fire you anyway
• Or an architect in prison complained that the walls were not built in scale
• The excitement at the circus is in tents or see shakespeare now in winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of york

Pun is also the meaning that its an accident of language, primary meaning linguistic

Pun , two meaning at the same time, Bascially killing two birds on one stone, artist Rene Magritte
















Symptons = indives lectural interpretation


Dreams use images, scert content uses linguistic (digues images also relates to pictogram)

Rat in German Ratte

Significant doesnt mean a rat as a rodent, it represent another catogory

Fraud (b)

Metonomy

examples

• "I got two mouths to feed" ( you only have one mouth not two)
• " can you give me a hand" ( you cannot take your hand of and give it to someone)
• " kettle has boiled" (Kettle cannot boil, water does)

a part of something represents a whole object

Rene Magritte

















Rene magritte painting is all catagorise into figure of speech or a metaphor her paintings lets public see one side of the image, but eventually states a slogon or sentence to let another side presents another identity onto a painting for example the painting my fiancee and mother in law is a very clever image a side of a girl and a image of witch, its like an illusion also the duck and the rabbit does the same aswell. It represent two different things a portrait of the rabbit and the landscape of the duck.

25th March 2006

Photography- The sparks of the reel

origin Photo (Latin) (light)
Graphy (Greek) (Write)

Pipes on sign which has been drawn, dosent mean just pipe its a catagory of object and sign with shoes just dosent mean that particular shoe it means all catogory of shoes

Philosopy say that cartoon or a less realistic hand is more easier to read than a painting of a hand or aa image of a hand

Roland Barthes
photograhic has a reference
Pipe sign means all pipe not one particular pipe
This is my brtoher (a photograph of him) you are refering to its reference (the real thing)

The word is the meaning of concept for example a lion, we think in our mind its a savage creature, we dont need an image of it

A photograh of a war , we expect army troops black and white photo war theme but with two nuns in the photograph dosent suit the frame for it.

Roland Barthes

" a camera with human eye"
"a photograh would represent death"

John Berger

Berger says when theres a image in the middle of anywhere represent clueless until you name it, then it gives you a meaning and a different impression.
quote a drawing is a translation to a photograph image, when van gogh draws a cyprus tree it is drawing the actual image, his interupting what he sees.

an image of people smiling with papers, could illustrate celebration which he says photograph is broad and naked, it could be anything until you name it.