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Reading Assignment: Rhetoric Of The Image By Roland Barthes
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Reflection for Reading Assignment
What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?
Barthes aims to investigate the relationship between the three types of messages that can be found in an image namely the linguistic, the coded and non-coded iconic messages hence the way in which meanings are produced or conceived in an image. He also investigates where the meanings Read more →
Project 1B: Paradox
In this exercise, we were told to create 1 original composition based on the theme paradox. The elements included should at least be distinctively local and include an image of us.
Ideation :
I’ve decided to focus on a subject that almost every true blue Singaporean felt/went through when growing up in Singapore, that is education. Another purpose for me to create this piece Read more →
Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes
What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?
In “Rhetoric of the Image”, he investigates how images are able to contain messages and bring across an idea efficiently. Using the “Panzani” advertisement, he explores the intentional and the hidden meaning of the visuals and texts used and how they influence our perception.
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Project 1A: Strange Encounter
For this exercise, we were made to visual an incident whereby we fell asleep in a train and waking up to a whole different universe, filled with creatures we have created from our own ideas.
I have chosen the theme “Phobias” for this exercise.
Background Idea:
My idea of the characters are something that would totally freak you out when you have just Read more →
Reponse to Roland Barthes "Rhetoric of the Image"
What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?
The overarching questions are really:
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
What are some of the key terms/concepts introduced and discussed?
If I were to condense my understanding based on the overarching questions which I have identified. What is Read more →
rhetoric of the image
1. What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?
Barthes’ imposes us a set of questions that seek to interrogate the multiple layers of meanings in an image. Later on, he inherently reacts by forming questions that analyze the formation of such meaning.
At its essence, he claims that the ‘image immediately yields a first message Read more →
"Rhetoric of the Image" Reflection
In this article, Barthes aims to investigate the possibility of changing a meaning of a subject through representing it, as well as how an image is able to get it’s meaning.
Some of the key concepts listed in this article includes the linguistic message, which come in the form of captions and text. In the Read more →
Strange Paradoxical World: Alice in Wonderland Tea Party
When I got this brief, I still cannot let go of the concept of Alice in Wonderland. My favorite portion of the movie was the tea party when Alice and the White Rabbit joined the March Hare and the Mad Hatter for tea. The paradox of this situation is that it’s always tea time for the Hatter and Read more →
Rhetoric of the Images by Roland Barthes
What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?
In this paper, Barthes aims to investigate the context of an image: how the image gets its meaning when does the interpretation stop, if there is anything beyond the meaning. He investigates this through categorizing the meaning of an image into three categories, Read more →