Semiotics: Making Meaning from Signs, Symbols, Icons, Index | LittleArtTalks

How do we look at an image and gain meaning from it? Here's an introduction to Semiotics, the types of signs, and how it creates meaning in Art!
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  • @chuldinjangbuvondensteinen9277
    @chuldinjangbuvondensteinen92777 жыл бұрын

    3 years of study = 3 minutes learned from this video !... nice !

  • @kashty024

    @kashty024

    3 жыл бұрын

    i liked this comment when i was in my first year of university. i’m now back here writing the same shit for my final project in my last year! 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

  • @TF-hl4bh

    @TF-hl4bh

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kashty024is it hard?! Because I am gonna write bc work about this topic

  • @MateoKupstysChica
    @MateoKupstysChica5 жыл бұрын

    Girl thanks a lot! I needed to understand the concept of index/indexical for a class about transcultural communication. Very insightful!

  • @ben315to405thenstop
    @ben315to405thenstop5 жыл бұрын

    Life saver for every art history course and art lectures I have had at cal poly

  • @bornthiswaytyty
    @bornthiswaytyty8 жыл бұрын

    That's really a great video getting me to understand semiotics!! I'm really fascinated by the Structuralists vs Post-structuralists, and have just read Barthes's the Death of The Author, which is closely related to the concept of semiotics~!

  • @aldhizak
    @aldhizak7 жыл бұрын

    Wowww finally i understand.. thank you! it is so helpful for me doing my thesis

  • @makealittlelove1
    @makealittlelove16 жыл бұрын

    Oh my goodness this saved my ass. I'm doing a Packaging project that's due in 3 hours. This literally cleared up my confusion. Thank You!!

  • @SCHMIDT-HAPPENS
    @SCHMIDT-HAPPENS5 жыл бұрын

    Well done, simply and perfect definition! :)

  • @NerdSyncProductions
    @NerdSyncProductions9 жыл бұрын

    This was fantastic! I remember a similar thing about icons in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. Fascinating stuff!

  • @littlearttalks

    @littlearttalks

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** Cool! I'll have to check that out :D

  • @katexia3415
    @katexia34153 жыл бұрын

    This series is very helpful. Thank you!

  • @alkigalang4803
    @alkigalang48038 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. this video is awesome. It helps to understand semiotics. love ya :D

  • @water851
    @water8517 жыл бұрын

    this helped me a lot for anthropology, thanks!

  • @1995yuda
    @1995yuda3 жыл бұрын

    This subject is so deep and pervasive in our every step of life that you can easily get lost in it forever. Not to mention the doors it opens...

  • @fernandavalastro5629
    @fernandavalastro56292 жыл бұрын

    this was so helpful, thank you so much!

  • @kfkm
    @kfkm4 жыл бұрын

    this was super helpful, thank you!!!!

  • @atikahamalia1162
    @atikahamalia11627 жыл бұрын

    Your video helps a lot thank you so much! I needed this theory of signs for my thesis and now I am completely understand the concept thanks to your video :) Thank you and thank you!

  • @littlearttalks

    @littlearttalks

    7 жыл бұрын

    So glad this helps you! Thanks for watching :)

  • @rahatmohammad3134

    @rahatmohammad3134

    7 жыл бұрын

    Atikah Amalia i am also working on semiotics and structuralism,,, if you can help me in this,it would be great,,

  • @rozbruce1076
    @rozbruce10763 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Thank you! :)

  • @rafamonka5280
    @rafamonka52808 жыл бұрын

    Well that was a great reminder. Thank you :).

  • @fitzmauriceworks
    @fitzmauriceworks3 жыл бұрын

    Very well explained. Thanks!

  • @aletheav6208
    @aletheav62083 ай бұрын

    Hey there, great video! What’s the painting called that you are using as an example?

  • @YusufRaul
    @YusufRaul7 жыл бұрын

    great video, you have a new suscriber!!

  • @sandragaviria6375
    @sandragaviria63757 жыл бұрын

    Please do more videos about it, including symptoms and signals!

  • @littlearttalks

    @littlearttalks

    7 жыл бұрын

    That's a great idea! :)

  • @chelsey8737
    @chelsey87373 жыл бұрын

    This is so helpful!

  • @abdullahabdulaziz2227
    @abdullahabdulaziz22275 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much . It helps alot .

  • @ntokozontleko9737
    @ntokozontleko97377 жыл бұрын

    hi Karin, i would like to quote you on my assignment on semiotics, however, i do not have much details except for your name and the link. please help..assignment due on the 21st

  • @mikartmilo
    @mikartmilo6 жыл бұрын

    This was useful thank you👍

  • @Raj-fv7ge
    @Raj-fv7ge5 ай бұрын

    I am confused between index and icon as both meaninng is same ?? Can anyone tell me ?? What is arbitary meaning ??

  • @ollen-1127
    @ollen-11273 жыл бұрын

    thanks madam, u explained very well..

  • @cristinadelvalle9230
    @cristinadelvalle92306 жыл бұрын

    Very clear , thanks

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    this was fantastic

  • @ayoubrifi6716
    @ayoubrifi67167 жыл бұрын

    does humain language include indexical iconic or symbolic signs ? justify your answer.

  • @themumbaiblogger3917
    @themumbaiblogger39173 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation

  • @Anto-bb7km
    @Anto-bb7km4 жыл бұрын

    can you do a video on french phonetioques ??

  • @mohamedchokri9266
    @mohamedchokri92666 жыл бұрын

    Quite interesting!!!

  • @zawarudo93
    @zawarudo934 жыл бұрын

    im honestly even more confused like whattt im honestly going to fail my exam lmaoo

  • @SoniaKhanfir
    @SoniaKhanfir4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Max_Le_Groom
    @Max_Le_Groom5 жыл бұрын

    But what does 'Play' sound like or look like?

  • @crazycatladyy
    @crazycatladyy5 жыл бұрын

    I'm now ready for my midterm lol. Thank you for explaining it so well!

  • @99Akhi
    @99Akhi13 күн бұрын

    the video when im alone: 0:30 the video when my mom walks in: 3:08

  • @HollyWade97x
    @HollyWade97x5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! :)

  • @samuelikonallaholokpo9063
    @samuelikonallaholokpo90632 жыл бұрын

    Play means moving forward. Forward means right. The Play button is an arrow facing right. Get it?

  • @adamhendrickson512
    @adamhendrickson5125 жыл бұрын

    She sounds like she's about to cry. Hehe.. It was a great video. Very educational.... Thanks...

  • @alex-gs5kr

    @alex-gs5kr

    3 жыл бұрын

    don't be mean

  • @khadijaelkhalfi462

    @khadijaelkhalfi462

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah! Hhhhh

  • @mohdmamoon8958
    @mohdmamoon89584 жыл бұрын

    It's good to understand

  • @bpuppin
    @bpuppin4 жыл бұрын

    If a picture depicts a family, is it iconically a bunch of people and indexically the idea of family or home?

  • @Anasskallali
    @Anasskallali3 жыл бұрын

    What does arbitrary mean??

  • @iqbalrahmani598
    @iqbalrahmani5984 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @abutterfingersproduction54
    @abutterfingersproduction54 Жыл бұрын

    Awe her voice is so cute🐛🐞

  • @swetagour5942
    @swetagour59423 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mam....

  • @yousssyousss4375
    @yousssyousss43753 жыл бұрын

    Please can you Write the definitions of icon, symbol and index with examples in replying me in the comment.

  • @Max_Le_Groom
    @Max_Le_Groom5 жыл бұрын

    What's more of an index? A photograph or a hologram?

  • @olestork9061
    @olestork90617 жыл бұрын

    At 00:36 you say that "The Process from the signifier to the signified is called signification" But on your drawings signification is placed on the right side, at the arrow down. The arrow down means signified to signification. I just wanted to ask what is the right meaning of signification. Signified to signifier or signifier to signified? Thank you so much :)

  • @moroccanman1382
    @moroccanman13826 жыл бұрын

    THIS IS Good

  • @fluxpistol3608
    @fluxpistol36085 жыл бұрын

    Not true. The play button denotes play-forward movement by facing the same direction the we read & write.

  • @concreteturtle4197
    @concreteturtle41979 жыл бұрын

    Somebody get Plato on the phone! Nice job!

  • @littlearttalks

    @littlearttalks

    9 жыл бұрын

    Concrete Turtle Thanks :)

  • @AnnEspinoza
    @AnnEspinoza5 жыл бұрын

    You should consider using examples that can be shown in a public school. I'm not sure I'm allowed to show this in my high school art class due to the nude painting. I know, it's art and personally, I have zero issues with it...but some communities are conservative and as such might object. Just my thoughts.

  • @BRYANLEGENDARIO
    @BRYANLEGENDARIO8 жыл бұрын

    En español tenemos una idea en la cual tendemos a diferenciar signo("sign")de símbolos("Symbols"), En ambos casos representa ideas, pero intuitivamente me entiendo más con el significado que le dan los ingleses.

  • @peterrulon-miller814
    @peterrulon-miller8147 жыл бұрын

    Nice introduction! It is pronounced CS "purse" not Pierce by the way!

  • @cactus_judy3929
    @cactus_judy39295 жыл бұрын

    does Tom know that you are using his video?

  • @cliffordhodge1449
    @cliffordhodge14496 жыл бұрын

    Indexicality and ostension in philosophy of language is to me a problematic area since, since ostension cannot rest on the physical act of pointing. The notion in semiotics of an indexical sign also seems like a weak point in the whole theory since the photo could look just like you (given the distance, clarity, etc.) and yet have been taken of someone else, so that it would in fact be indiscernible from a photo that was actually taken of you. The one may have the correct causal history, but that is the only thing suggesting it as a representation of you. Replies are welcomed.

  • @aliaab123
    @aliaab123 Жыл бұрын

    Is an image with words symbolic?

  • @InsistentlyInterdisciplinary

    @InsistentlyInterdisciplinary

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah! It certainly can be. An image is iconic, according to Peirce (a semiotician/philosopher) and the words would be symbolic. If you are interested in the topic, there is also fascinating work done on words called ideophones.

  • @priyanshumishra1922
    @priyanshumishra192210 күн бұрын

    The "Object" is about what sign refers ....it is not a concept or signified .....even signified is closely related to " Interpretant

  • @HUNT4BLUD
    @HUNT4BLUD4 жыл бұрын

    Had to watch on 0.75 speed + 10x of rewinding every part to get smth into my bubu brain xd

  • @saleos23
    @saleos237 жыл бұрын

    This was a lot of fun. But the "play" button is not arbitrary but rather indexical. The right pointing arrow indicates the direction a tape would play in a recording studio tape deck of an old Boom Box playing cassettes. A button pointing in the opposite direction, to the left meant rewinding the tape, the tape would spin in the other direction. The addition of multiple arrows (fast forward or fast rewind) indicate the speed in that direction would be increased. In the digital age, folks like You Tube have adapted the right-arrow play button for digital uses and so it may seem arbitrary, but for anyone who used or still use tape decks of any kind, it's most def an indexical sign. But like I said, I enjoyed this a lot and will be sharing it with a colleague and some students (I'm a PhD student at University of Chicago).

  • @OgreBurden

    @OgreBurden

    6 жыл бұрын

    Your argument works also for the words of a language, they are symbolic but they are not arbitrary : they all have an etymology. Maybe a better definition for the symbol will be a conventional relationship rather than an arbitrary relationship between the representamen and the meaning.

  • @Sraye

    @Sraye

    5 жыл бұрын

    The "play" button is arbitrary. At some point in history, some guy in an office decided a triangle pointing right or left would mean play or rewind while he was designing the first boom box, cassette player, etc. There is nothing inherent about a triangle that suggests the direction of the tape moving. In some "alternate timeline", someone could have chosen to associate play with an arrow shape, or a heart shape with the pointed end showing direction, or maybe even a thumbs up in the direction of play. There are many possibilities. Good luck with your PhD, I am also doing one.

  • @adamhendrickson512

    @adamhendrickson512

    5 жыл бұрын

    sakeos23 Woaw... I actually didn't know that... Thanks...

  • @Keemin

    @Keemin

    5 жыл бұрын

    and thus the Media Aesthetics course was born. jk I know it existed long before this but it's funny that I looked this video up to remind myself of something i learned in class and I found someone from U of C

  • @Dam-Dd
    @Dam-Dd5 жыл бұрын

    gooooooood

  • @Emma-iu8xd
    @Emma-iu8xd5 жыл бұрын

    omg your voice 1:57

  • @Max_Le_Groom
    @Max_Le_Groom5 жыл бұрын

    In 2019 if you say the word 'trees' you're most likely talking about weed.

  • @arthurorpiana3640
    @arthurorpiana3640 Жыл бұрын

    i'm not listening i am just looking at you talking cuz ur beautiful

  • @bergg2009
    @bergg20095 жыл бұрын

    whoever is in charge of the production of videos on this channel: use a de-esser PLEASE! All those s-es are like nails on a chalkboard.

  • @PSB-SyedArmanHassan
    @PSB-SyedArmanHassan3 жыл бұрын

    Every thing was nice bt the picture at 3:21 it made me addicted to this video 😂😂😂

  • @waifu8515
    @waifu85152 жыл бұрын

    anyone else here from school 👀