The representation and the Iconic nature of the image

The image as a model of reality. Select the 3 correct answers:

• ...is the representation of a reality.

• ...is the reality itself.

• ...is not the reality itself.

• ...has have different degrees of reality.

All images, no matter their level of reality (hyperrealistic or abstract), do not differ in the core of their iconic nature.

• False.

• True.

• Sometimes.

• It depends on their features and formal elements.

The iconic nature of the image requires three components:

• Reality selection, proportions, and recognition.

• Reality selection, naturalistic codes, and schemes.

• Reality selection, range of elements/principles, and composition.

• Reality selection, mimicry process, and composition.

What is the iconic nature of the image?

• The ability to represent, occasionally, reality.

• It doesn't remind us of reality, because it has no relation with it.

• Never represents reality.

• The capacity to represent the reality.

Write the two types of representations we saw.

(a)  

The image can have different degrees of reality.

• True.

• False.

• Sometimes.

• It depends on the creator and the viewer's gaze.

Reality can be easily modified in a representation. Mark the differences between the two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci.

• The color palette.

• The background of the painting.

• The shaping of the face and the smile.

• All of the above options are correct.