Describe which type of representation each image is below (Iconic, Symbolic, Indexical, or more than one?) and explain why :
1.
Younger Sir Thomas More
Holbein, Hans
oil on canvas, 1527
The Painting of the Sir Thomas More By Hans Holbein is an Iconic painting because this image doesn't have any direct relationship to the people depicted in this portrait. He created this portrait to befriend More, a powerful speaker at the English Parliament as Ductch Humanist Desiderius Erasmus recommended him to.
Yves Klein, Anthropometry ANT 85, 1960. 155.5 x 352.5cm.
(body prints of female models painted with his universal blue)
The Yves Klein, Anthropometry is an Indexical painting as it is a true, real representation
of the relationship between the image which is depicted as a proof. The blue paint depicts
that Klein used naked female models covered in blue paint who were dragged across and
laid on the canvases to make the image. The blue paint is the evidence of the naked women
in the blue paint used as living brushes for the image.
3.
This is a Symbolic painting as the image itself symbolizes love. It doesn't resemble love but this image is represented as LOVE based on our understanding through texting.
4.
Francesca Woodman, 35 mm Photograph
The Francesca Woodman photograph is an Iconic as well as Indexical painting because the nude female model is blurred out due to her movement so she doesn't have any relationship to the painting which is Iconic while the Woodman's photograph of herself on the chair is a prove that she was there at that time is Indexical.
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