What it is?

This isn´t an apple

This is an image that represent an apple

• An image is a representation of the reality• The relationship between an image and reality

is called iconicity• The iconicity has different grades and there are

images with more likeness with reality

• Here we can see some images of human figure with different levels of iconicity. From more realistic to abstract shape

The first image shows the highest level of iconicity in a realistic color photography, the second one an unrealistic colored photograph, next a cartoon, a cubist painting by Picasso, an articulated mannequin, toilet symbols, an image in which a face is guessed, ending with a prehistoric image of the human figure (Indalo Almeria).

ABSTRACTION

• The abstraction is a process of simplificacion

And now, choose an image and try to do the same.First of all draw the silhouette simplifying the form step by step