Thursday, 26 April 2012

SEMIOTICS




Semiotics can be explained as a study of signs, symbols, icons etc. Semiotics can interpret an image into words and makes an image easy to analyse and further break it down. It is a visual language which creates visual communication. It also makes you able to see an image or any piece of art through a different perspective. Semiotics has not been defined nor has any specific rule or way to follow it, but it depends on the way the signs and symbols are viewed and studied.

  At present semiotics; signs, icons are present and used all over the world in different forms; arts, advertisements, posters. As the arts continue to evolve and change, so does semiotics in the arts as well. It is used in the form of signs and icons to express emotion, meaning. Often hidden meanings can also be conveyed through semiotics, which otherwise would have been hard to convey. In case of semiotics in advertisements or in posters, it does have a massive impact on the way we try to select something that we want. In a way it also dictates the way we live because all the signs and symbols make us lead toward a certain direction; their direction.

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