Abstract :
This study aimed to determine the meaning of caricature "Artalyta Suryani"
on the cover of Tempo magazine January 2010 edition.
Researchers used the theory in this research are: Magazine For Mass Media,
Magazines, Mass-Media, Cover Illustration, Visual Communications, Cartoon and
Caricature, Caricature As Social Critic, The Concept Of Meaning, Relationships
Politics And Law, Color Meanings, and the Semiotic Approach.
The method used in this study is a qualitative research method, which uses a
semiotic analysis of Charles Sanders Pierce. Corpus of the features are : Image
caricature "Artalyta 'Ayin' Suryani? on the cover of Tempo magazine January
2010 edition.
Based on the results, it can be concluded that the icon of the corpus is the
women who wear clothes, hair rollers and slippers holding a sword in his right
hand and left hand holding the weight, walking past the stairs, beyond that there
are two pillars. Scales are not balanced, down the stairs, flip-off, money to fly, fly
clothes, a white cloth hanging on the sword, the sky was cloudy orange color, hair
in that group, and the smiling face is the index of the image. While the picture
presented by the hammer symbol, money, swords, sandals, pillars, hanger,
clothes, stairs, and scale