Woman Semiotics Representation in the Saudi Painting

The research deals with the science of Semiotics in the paintings to reveal the semanticand artistic values as well as the signs that help in reaching the underlying meaningsbehind the colors, shapes and lines. The research attempts to identify the messageconveyed by these values and meanings and their ability to portray the social andcultural environment in the societies during the period of visual communication, whichcan be deduced from the semiotic representation of women in Saudi plastic painting.The research aims to identify the semiotics of the picture in the painting and to revealthe semiotic signs of the women picture in Saudi plastic painting. The she-researcherfound the following results: the analysis of the semiotic is very much influenced by thepersonality of the analyst according to his own vision. The semantic analysis focuseson two aspects: linking the artistic work to reality, and the symbol and significancebeing carrying the keys of the critic approach which refers to syntactic and semanticunits linked to a cultural model that exists in the memory as a signifier and signified.The painting is a tool to convey the connotations and indications as a key function todecipher the codes and diagnose the symbols and indications of the art message.Among the levels of semiotics reading, visual communication in the paintings which isbased on visual perception. The external semiotics of the portrayal of woman in theSaudi paintings does not describe her features but seeks to deduce implicit meanings toattract the receiver and send the artist s basic message to help the semiotic reading ofthe painting. The work of plastic art is an iconic text determined by a group of symbolsand semantics as descriptive elements, which necessitates the search for methods to beused to read the painting and analyze it in semiotic way to enhance the connectionbetween the artist and the receiver. Semiotics seeks ways of communication toinfluence the receiver. The semiotics of the picture may go through four stages: thefounding phase of de Saussure and Peirce who divided the mark into three (symbol,sign, icon), the plastic art stage which focused on the analysis of the meanings of thevocabulary of plastic art, the stage of classification which distinguishes among thevisual images, and the stage of text based on the classification of visual images with thesearch for their meanings and significance. The reading of the image is subject to twolevels, the perception of the painting as an artistic composition which is subject to anaesthetic pattern, and the semantic level that depends on producing the meaning.Hence, the sign requires interpreting the idea and the conclusion of the meaning. Thegeneral characteristics of the works of the female artists in the research sample includea focus on the social character of the painting, the lack of commitment to the Academyrules, and the tendency to express with the details and make the plastic vocabularyperipheral.