After this observation, comes the analyses of available texts around artwork, understanding historical context, seeking for author‟s аords: labels, text next to artаork, notes from
sketches, comments of art critics, curators and others. Data were then analysed according to the theory presented in this research Postcolonial theory and tools of semiotics. In this
research icon-index-symbol triptych was used, together with the Barthesian denotation and connotation form from his „Rhetoric of Image‟.
E. Technique of Analyzing Data
In qualitatiЯe descriptiЯe research „the researcher is an instrument‟. The research does not aim to get ultimate truth, but to look one problem from different perspectives.
Qualitative approach can reveal different perspectives in different: situations, settings, process, relations, and people. Qualitative research is generally characterized by the
simultaneous collection and analysis of data whereby both mutually shape each other. One of the types of techniques used to analyze data in descriptive way is through
using a case study. In case study we need record data about context surrounding proposed problem, to understand its social and cultural framework and other things. Data Analysis in
case studies includes: 1. Organization of details about the case, 2. Categorization of data, 3. Interpretation of single instances, 4. Identification of patterns, and 5. Synthesis and
generalizations Leedy and Ormrod, 2013
F. Approach to Analyses of Data
For this research data will be collected and analyzed through tools of visual semiotics. Data will be organized as marked signs used in paintings. Signs will be divided
in three categories – indexes, icons, and symbols. Also theory of gaze and gaze will be
looked as a sign. These will be interpreted one by one, and then through analysis of all five painting those who emerge as same, can be named patterns. They will be synthesized and
generalized in one message. This message can be connotative meaning of painting. Semiotics signs will correspond to Postcolonial theory which is ground theory of this
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Process is the following – reading painting, reduce it to systems of signs, analyze
signs, use Postcolonial theory, unite them all together and answer the question of main hypothesis. Signs that will be produced come from understanding of concept such are
heroism, nationalism, identity, and others. These concepts are analyzed under Postcolonial theory and finding and ideas of main thinkers from this theory.
G. Validation of Data
