stefan arteni

an essay on visual semiotics

VII

solinvictus press 2008

 Aphrodite I

The sign as form:

the sign becomes progressively cut off from its origin, it
may be integrated in a different whole as an empty
sign
Roman wall painting
Palma the Elder (Jacopo Negretti I)
Palma the Elder (Jacopo Negretti I)
Palma the Younger (Jacopo Negretti II)
Paris Bordone
Tiziano Vecellio
Bernardino Licinio
Girolamo da Treviso the Younger
Georg Pencz, Vanitas, 1544
Follower of Tiziano
Jean Cousin the Elder
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Andre Derain
Charles Camoin
Jean Metzinger
Jean Metzinger
Felice Carena
Felix Vallotton
Primo Conti
 Aphrodite II

The sign as form:

the sign becomes progressively cut off from its origin,
it may be integrated in a different whole as an empty
sign
Greek, 275-250 BC Hellenistic
Roman, 100-1 BC
Aphrodite anadyomène
gallo-roman era
(50 BC-100 AC)
Sandro Botticelli
Lorenzo di Credi
Jan Gossaert (Mabuse), Vanitas
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
Pierre Bonnard
 Aphrodite III

The sign as form:

the sign becomes progressively cut off from its origin, it
may be integrated in a different whole as an empty
sign
Aphrodite,
hellenistic
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
Lovis Corinth
Jules Pascin
Felice Casorati
Felice
Casorati
Andre Derain
Mario
Sironi
Andre Lhote
 Appropriation of formalization
systems

An alien sign system is ‘empty’ , it can be

viewed as just a formalization system and
it can be appropriated
Fayum portrait
Fayum portrait
Fayum portrait
Fayum portrait
Fayum portrait
Greek, archaic
Etruscan antefix
Southern Italy
Etrusco-Campanian sculpture

Southern Italian statue

Late Roman mosaic
Etruscan
statue
Etruscan statue
Etruscan statue
Etruscan
statue
Etruscan
wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan wall painting
Etruscan painting
Vinca culture
Massimo
Campigli,
1927
Massimo Campigli,
1930
Massimo
Campigli,
undated
Massimo Campigli, 1931
Massimo Campigli,
1931

Massimo Campigli,
1932
Massimo Campigli
1938
Massimo Campigli,
1942
Massiomo Campigli, 1943
Massimo Campigli,
1948
Massimo
Campigli,
1948
Massimo Campigli, 1948
Massimo Campigli,
1949
Massimo Campigli,
1950
 1950

1953
Massimo Campigli
Massimo Campigli, 1954
Massimo
Campigli,
1957
Massimo
Campigli,
1957
Massimo
Campigli,
1958
Massimo Campigli,
1960
Massimo Campigli, 1960
Massimo Campigli,
1961
Massimo Campigli,1962
Massimo Campigli,
1963
Massimo
Campigli,
1963
Massimo Campigli,
1965
Massimo Campigli, 1966
Massimo
Campigli,
1967
Massimo Campigli,
1967
Massimo
Campigli,
1968
Massimo Campigli,
1971