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Résumé : It is widely accepted that visual representations are iconic and differ from the symbolic representations of propositional attitudes. Iconic representations compose differently from symbolic representations. Symbolic compositionality is canonical (it conforms to a set of rules determined by symbolic logic or by some grammar). Iconic representations display a whole/parts compositionality, in the way parts of objects combine to form whole objects. In this paper, I take recourse to Mereotopology as it applies to the compositionality of parts to form wholes to explain, first, the compositionality of icons, and to argue, second, that the hardwiring of our visual system is such as to reflect the basic compositional rules of Mereotopology.