Visual communication in art
02 ideograms
An ideograph is a symbol that represents a hole idea rather than one word or numerical unit it is often used for way finding a example might be the representation of a key location E.g a air port,train station or docks they are also used in Arabic numerals and mathematics which are used globally.
in this picture the symbols based within the upper most parts of the book could be describing or showing a scene or perhaps important information
Cuneiform
Cuneiforms were created by a ancient society in southern iraq over five-thousand years ago known as the sumerians due to there society expanding and beoming extremly large and complex however rather than imploying a wrighting system for the purpose of storys or documentation but ratther it took on a more bureocratic tone creating a system of symbols to represent a number of diffrent things like numbers,words or the sounds of words.
The standard for the documentation was to be written on squares of clay mostly becuase the matriel was plentiful as well as reuseable but also becuase the "reed stylus" would create the imprints easly on the surface, the tip of the reed styluses was stroked onto the surface creating a wedged shaped
symbol which is why it is called a "cuneiform" as this translates from latin to "wedge-shaped"
in addition the slabs of clay could be molded into diffrent shapes like cones or shperes for diffrent purposes.
This system of wrighting has inspired many others to imploy a similiar system the most famous of which includes the old persian cuniforms a simplified version created from there own alphabets.
The standard for the documentation was to be written on squares of clay mostly becuase the matriel was plentiful as well as reuseable but also becuase the "reed stylus" would create the imprints easly on the surface, the tip of the reed styluses was stroked onto the surface creating a wedged shaped
symbol which is why it is called a "cuneiform" as this translates from latin to "wedge-shaped"
in addition the slabs of clay could be molded into diffrent shapes like cones or shperes for diffrent purposes.
This system of wrighting has inspired many others to imploy a similiar system the most famous of which includes the old persian cuniforms a simplified version created from there own alphabets.
The literal meaning of this set of cuneiforms could represent a documentation of sorts
accounting numbers of objects or even pepole.
The more abstract definition could be a depiction of some sort of story or event
as some of the cuneiforms seem to be shaped like humans or animals.
hireoglyphs were a system of symbols and drawings created in ancient egypt to communicate storys or important events,hireoglyphs are made up of three types phonetic glyphs a single symbol that represents one thing alone like letters found in the alaphabet , logographs which represent morphemes
and determantives and ideograms which simplfy the maning of phonetic glyphs and logographs
threw out the ears of the three kingdoms (old,middle and new) over 700 hireoglyphs had been used by the time of the Greco-Roman period its estimated over 5,000 hireoglyphs had been created.
accounting numbers of objects or even pepole.
The more abstract definition could be a depiction of some sort of story or event
as some of the cuneiforms seem to be shaped like humans or animals.
Hireoglyphs
hireoglyphs were a system of symbols and drawings created in ancient egypt to communicate storys or important events,hireoglyphs are made up of three types phonetic glyphs a single symbol that represents one thing alone like letters found in the alaphabet , logographs which represent morphemes
and determantives and ideograms which simplfy the maning of phonetic glyphs and logographs
threw out the ears of the three kingdoms (old,middle and new) over 700 hireoglyphs had been used by the time of the Greco-Roman period its estimated over 5,000 hireoglyphs had been created.
This seris of hireglyphics could literally described
the ascension of a pharaos,
the abstract meaning could tell the story of
a pharaos being granted life or after life by what could be Ra
the egytpian god of the sun one of the most important figures in egypt
and usally represented by a strange eye symbol located in the top left and right of this picture.
the ascension of a pharaos,
the abstract meaning could tell the story of
a pharaos being granted life or after life by what could be Ra
the egytpian god of the sun one of the most important figures in egypt
and usally represented by a strange eye symbol located in the top left and right of this picture.
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