The Language and Symbols

*Imagery in Art

Aboriginal Rock Art in Kakadu

English Church Art from around 1200 A.D.

The Ladder Between Heaven and Hell.

Doom Painting: Last Judgement by Fra

Angelico, painted in the late 14th Century.

Religious Symbols

The Language of Flowers in Millais’ Ophelia painted 1851

Pablo Picasso: Dove (1949)

Explore the imagery in two of the paintings below. Refer to the information sheet as a guide. Try to respond first and then look them up on Google or Wikipedia as they are famous paintings.

(Above) Where have we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Paul Gauguin

(Above) Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (1665)

(Right) The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali (1931)