Published date: Mar 01 2021

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: International Seminar on Language, Education, and Culture

Pages: 52–61

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i3.8527

Anindia Amalia Ulfah - anindiaamalia3@gmail.com

Hadjar Pamadhi

. Martono

Artworks, especially painting, are the second language or visual language of an artist for expressing their ideas. Therefore, through this paper, the writer tried to examine a painting entitled, “The Chronicle of Devotion” using the Charles Sanders Peirce Semiotics approach (Icons, Indexes and Symbols). The results of this study show that the studied painting is a visual form of artists representing the spirit of heroism and legendary sacrifice originating from Bali known as Kebo Iwa, interpreted as Uncle Buffalo. Through Pierce’s semiotics study and approach, the writer described the icons, indexes, and symbols of the painting. The icons describe the visual objects depicted realistically in the painting, such as the buffalo and the bird; the indexes are explained in the object that is outlined as a large and burly male knight; and the symbols are visually explained through colouring, expression, and property portrayed by the main object.

Keywords: semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce, The Chronicle of Devotion, Kebo Iwa

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