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Planes in Arts

This document discusses planes in art and how to analyze a work of art. It identifies three key planes: the semiotic plane, which includes technical elements like color; the iconic plane, referring to the simple image and subject matter; and the thematic plane, relating to cultural and historical influences on the work. The document provides guidance on documenting key details about a work such as the title, artist, medium, and provenance to aid in analysis across these three planes.
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Planes in Arts

This document discusses planes in art and how to analyze a work of art. It identifies three key planes: the semiotic plane, which includes technical elements like color; the iconic plane, referring to the simple image and subject matter; and the thematic plane, relating to cultural and historical influences on the work. The document provides guidance on documenting key details about a work such as the title, artist, medium, and provenance to aid in analysis across these three planes.
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Various planes in art

At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:


 Identify various planes in art
 Categorize and organize information from different sources
WHAT is a PLANE?

 It is any surface within a space


A flat surface extending infinitely in all
directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical
plane).
Reading the visual work

Why?
 Read the work to be able to
evaluate in terms of conveying
significance
 Familiarizewith the various
forms, medium and techniques
as well as the processes involved
in art making
1. Title of work
2. Name of Artists
3. Medium & technique
4. Dimension of measurements
5. Date of work
6. Provenance

Documentary
information required
Date of work: Title of the work bears
Dimension: metric an iconic relationship to
Historical the work, witty comment
system, mural,
context, art about the subject or
miniature , large scale,
symbolism may play history, school work.
or movement

Name of the
Artist supply
information:
generation, Provenance:
artistic trends, name of the
peers, owner, Medium/Technique:
background & collector, art artistic choice, process,
training, diaries, museum, art kind of materials, ground of
statement shed gallery work
light
THREE LEVELS OF CONTENT OF ART

SEMIOTIC PLANES
ICONIC PLANE
THEMATIC PLANE
 Includes the general elements, technical, physical such as rock, sound or
color which contribute the overall impact as evidence of its significance

Semiotic plane
 Simple image with a unique meaning, choice of the subject which may bear socio-political implications. It
presents the figure relative to the viewer and the meaning those orientation convey.
 What would be the difference if the figure was centered or all crammed on one side?
 What does the direction of the character’s gaze imply?
 Why is the figure cropped?

The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch

Iconic plane/pictorial plane


 Any cultural or historical influence, ideologies and concern of that period
 Theme is derived from the significant circumstances of the artist and therefore a good analysis within
this plane

Thematic plane

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