Planes in Reading

Images
PRESENTORS:
COLLADO, KAREEN CLAIRE
DELGADO, ARVY MARIE
Meaning is a complex of intellectual,
emotional, and sensory significations
which the work conveys and to which
the viewer responds, bringing in the
breadth of his or her cultural
background, artistic exposure and
training, and human experience in a
dialogic relationship with the art work.
 Basic Information
TITLE OF THE WORK DIMENSION OR MEASUREMENT
ARTIST'S NAME DATE OF WORK
MEDIUM & TECHNIQUE
PROVENANCE
THE FOUR PLANES
The Basic Semiotic Plane
- Study of signs, elements, technical and physical
aspects of work.
 “Semantic potential is
realized in the analysis or
reading of the integral work.”
Elements and 1.Visual elements and how they are used

General Technical 2. Choice of medium and technique

and Physical 3. Format of the work

Aspects 4. Other physical properties and marks of the work

 Choice of subject

ICONIC PLANE
Presentation of the image
This has to do with the
particular features, aspects,
and qualities of the image
Positioning of the figure
which are the signifiers

Cropping
Contextual Plane
Full meaning of the work
(human and social implications)

Personal and social

circumstance of its production

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.
.
 Analyzing the values of a work
AXIOLOGICAL For all visual forms, whether
OR EVALUATIVE paintings, prints, posters,
illustrations, cartoons, and comics
PLANE have their standards of technical
excellence to which a work may be
on par or below par.
Form and content Full meaning of the work Analysis and examination
After the critic/viewer has gone through the three planes, the
semiotic, the iconic, and the contextual, it is possible to determine
the semantic focus and parameters of the work and, from these,

project its horizon of meanings, its boundaries and limitations, its

semantic implications and ideological orientations, its progressive or

conservative tendencies with respect to human development.

Art projects a horizon of meanings relative to both the artist and the
critic/viewer in terms of intellectual background, emotional maturity,
and cultural range in the humanly enriching dialogic experience of

art.