Jon Favreau

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

American Actor

Natasha Trethewey

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

American Poet

David S. Goyer

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you.

American Director

Lynda Resnick

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

American Businesswoman

James Wolcott

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

American Critic

Anish Kapoor

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Indian Artist

Irvine Welsh

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Scottish Novelist

Trevor Paglen

The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.

American Artist

Lee Ranaldo

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

American Musician

Lennart Meri

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Estonian Statesman

Iconography is often used in scholarly works, indicating a formal and studied approach to symbols.

Academic Focus

Iconography relates specifically to the themes within art, not everyday pictures or signs.

Field Specificity

In art, iconography uses symbols to convey deeper meanings or messages within the piece.

Artistic Symbols

Iconography can reflect a specific culture's values, beliefs, or history through chosen images.

Cultural Reference

The same iconographic elements can have different meanings across cultures or over time.

Multiple Interpretations

Iconography in art can be layered, with symbols having multiple levels of interpretation.

Complex Analysis

Understanding iconography enhances visual literacy, helping to read imagery like text for deeper comprehension.

Visual Literacy

 where something which resembles the physical world can be abstracted in a couple of different abstracted from resemblance, but still retaining the complete meaning, or abstracted away from both resemblance and meaning towards the picture plane. Put all these three together, and you have a nice little map of the entire boundary of visual iconography,

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 and how imagination clearly plays into that. So at this point in my career as an artist, I've decided to just let my influences flow into me without question, even if they're not on trend or unpopular. And this music really struck me with these visions of the religious iconography I was exposed to

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 added decoration to their penal tattoos, with designs borrowed from woodblock prints, popular literature and mythical spirtual iconography. Yakuza gangs viewed their outsider tattoos as signs of lifelong loyalty and courage. After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them.

The history of tattoos -...

 mapping is no longer just about cartography. It's become a way to preserve places that are undergoing constant and sometimes dramatic change. High-resolution imagery turns maps into a living canvas on which we can instantly experience the rhythm and visual iconography of a city,

My journey mapping the...

 It's simply too massive, too vast, too endless. And what do you see here? I think most people actually look past to the horizon. So I think there's a real danger that we never really see the sea, and if we don't really see it, if it doesn't have its own iconography,

An underwater art...

 crossroads and suspects this River corridor was an important artery linked to the famous east-west trade route further north Silk Road we know that we have clear connections to Tibetan Buddhism to artistic motifs and designs in iconography that connect this part of

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 So how do we define what we call art? Generally speaking, what we're talking about here is work that visually communicates meaning beyond language, either through representation or the arrangement of visual elements in space. Evidence of this power of iconography,

A brief history of...

 scarred us it has bruised us it has injured us but when we tell the truth about that history we change things and I believe that if we create spaces like this where we resurrect the truth where we change the iconography of the Americans landscape we will get to

The urgent need for...

 Following the Olmecs, the Maya carried jaguar iconography to new heights. Always depicting jaguars never as just an animal, always as something more. Not just animal-human but beyond that. Jaguars controlled the world that the humans couldn't control.

For the Love of Jaguars...

 and we see the elephant. Okay? And then if we want, we can continue the scroll to find out, for example, on the staircase, the whole iconography is going

Iconography

The study of images, symbols, and artworks.

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The visual images or symbols used in a work of art or the study of these.

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The use of images and symbols to represent things.

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