Monday 25th January 2016


Today our contextual studies lesson was on semiotics and religion, we started off by doing a task in which we looked at an image and had to denote and connote the image. For example we looked at an image of a heart and had to say what we thought it represented. We also looked at a power point telling us about religion etc..in which we looked at different religious iconography and how different artists have used this. We looked at Madonna's song 'like a prayer' because it shows conflicting aspects of religion and challenges the typical conventions of Christian imagery, it also shows many controversial aspects of The Church, including the KKK, which is represented by a burning cross. We then moved on to a different controversial piece called 'piss Christ' by Andreas Serrano. We then went on to continue with our blogs for the rest of the day.