What it is?

This isn´t an apple

This is an image that represent an apple

• An image is a representation of the reality• The relationship between an image and reality is called

iconicity• The iconicity has different grades and there are images

with more likeness with reality

• Here we can see some images of human figure with different levels of iconicity. From more realistic to abstract shape

The iconicity of an image means how similar the image is to the object represented.Abstraction represents something in a different way to reality.

• The abstaction is a process of simplificacion

• Comenzamos con el nivel de iconicidad máximo de una fotografía realista en color, pasamos por una fotografía coloreada poco realista, una caricatura, un cuadro cubista de Picasso (en el que puede ser difícil reconocer la figura humana), un maniquí articulado, los símbolos de unos aseos, una imagen en la que se adivina un rostro, para terminar con una imagen prehistórica de la figura humana (el índalo almeriense).

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