Visual communication analysis of a painting titled, Boboro (Nypa Fruticans) in exhibition of Botani art at Bale Banjar Sangkring Yogyakarta

Abstract

This study aimed to describe visual communication in the painting of Nypa fruticans, titled ‘Boboro’. The image was a form of a visual language that contained visual structures, such as lines, colors, and composition. Its existence was grouped in the category of non-verbal communication language that distinguished from the verbal language in the form of written or spoken form. As a language, visual communication design was an expression of ideas and messages from the designer to the intended public through tangible symbols of images, colors, writing, and others. The data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative method. Regarding qualitative descriptive formats, it could also be called quasi-qualitative, and its nature was not overemphasizing meaning. The result of this study are methods of observing and identification of an object. In this case, it is a botanical painting.