Metaphor as a basic mechanism of art (painting)
This article describes research on visual semantics, diff erent forms of metaphorused in rhetoric and philology (tropes: metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, oxymoron,and others), and images, which are metaphorical also. The research was carried outusing paintings. The authors state that the function of me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Psychology in Russia: State of Art |
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| Online Access: | http://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/pdf/2012/petrenko.pdf |
| Summary: | This article describes research on visual semantics, diff erent forms of metaphorused in rhetoric and philology (tropes: metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, oxymoron,and others), and images, which are metaphorical also. The research was carried outusing paintings. The authors state that the function of metaphor is to transformthe sense of the image from a psychological point of view. |
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| ISSN: | 2074-6857 |