Vermeer „Woman in Blue Reading a Letter”

On the left of the painting is a white wall. The white covers one third, the other two third is contrast brown map. On the left bottom corner is some black cloth, it takes all of the corner under itself. We can see two chairs, they are both blue and a woman is standing between those chairs, also wearing blue. She is exactly in the middle on the picture. The black metal thing cuts the picture with a straight line. It is contrast to the left bottom corner.

The woman is reading a letter, the black line points up the letter. From letter to the left the metal line ends up with a decorative ball, which is directed to the window. Woman´s back is in the shadow and the lines on the map continue the curves line of the back, again towards the light and window. Two chairs (there is also third chair, but it is covered with cloth) are directed to the table. They are probably for sitting next to the table but the woman had stood up for reading the letter. It is all I can read from the painting.




Kadi Kallavus

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kevin09

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Kakhi Sanikidze

First lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/274278.html

Second lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/274574.html

Third lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/274790.html

Fourth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/275185.html

Fifth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/275411.html

Sixth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/275576.html

Seventh lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/275845.html

Eighth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/276113.html

Ninth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/276363.html

Tenth lecture: http://semioart.livejournal.com/276569.html

Rauno Saidla

The topic of the tenth lecture was V-shape and toilet paper fun.

V-shape associates firstly with victory sign. It’s a symbol that is seen often in newspaper, Edgas Savisaar uses it a lot for example. I consider it very weird.

Then Nike also uses a type of V shape. The symbol of X combines two V-shapes.

There’s a lot of alternative usage for toilet paper.

Here are some examples:

The topic of the ninth lecture was owls.

The symbol of owls have been around for a long time. Even since cave drawings were made, since ancient times.

Owl’s eyes are important – they’re big and curious.

But most importantly – owls symbolize wisdom and clear sight. The owl is sacred to Greek goddess of learning – Athena. Owl is even depicted on some Greco-Roman currency as a symbol of status, intelligence and wealth.

A list of owl’s symbolic meaning: wisdom, mystery, transition, messages, intelligence, mysticism, protection, secrets. So here you go – here’s an element that can be used in paintings that connotates to a lot of different meanings. 

The topic for the eighth lecture was human brain and thought.

Human brain is an amazing thing. I’ve already mentioned the thing with denotations and connotations. If we say or hear a word then it’s impossible not to imagine it or visualize it. But the thing is that not everybody visualize one image exactly the same way. If I say “dog”, then I’m sure you and I picture a different type of a dog. Even if it’s the same breed then it’s fur is not probably the same color etc. My visualized dog looks something like that:

Did you picture the same kind?

Then we have words that denote different objects, the image conveys different connotations. The word is connected to a lot of other words. For example “dog” is connected to maybe a happy family or resembles true friendship etc.