AESTHETICS, SEMIOTICS AND ILLUSTRATIVE ANALYSIS OF YORUBA CULTURAL MOTIFS

Fine Arts

Communicative purposes of encoding and embellishment are worldwide applications of symbols used in artworks, which are rendered in motifs. However, the conceptual process of decoding the motifs culturally demands learning to gain mastery in approaching its interpretation which this paper aims to achieve. The study provides the requisite background knowledge and an illustrative context for interpreting cultural motifs in a multimedia painting project. Consequent upon the argument in this study, the paper made submissions which can serve as working manual for stakeholders and way out of possible semiological challenges among which is dismantling the work into its component parts which will reveal the meaning of the whole from the parts. Conclusively, the experimental multimedia work under discourse opines that human destiny plays a mysterious role in controlling life events, while the manifestation of good desires depend greatly on human efforts, the action, inactions and reactions of man in his or her life are important pointers to what he becomes, legacies he leaves behind and the posterity accorded him/her.

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