What is an artistic image called in literary criticism? Artistic image


The story "Mr. from San Francisco".

In the evenings, the floors of Atlantis gaped in the darkness with countless fiery eyes, and a great many servants worked in the cook, scullery and wine cellars. Oksan, who walked outside the walls, was scary, but they didn’t think about him, firmly believing in the power over him of the commander, a red-haired man of monstrous size and bulk, always as if sleepy, looking like a huge idol in his uniform with wide gold stripes and very rarely appearing at people from their mysterious chambers; on the forecastle the siren constantly wailed with hellish gloom and shrieked with furious anger, but few of the diners heard the siren - it was drowned out by the sounds of a beautiful string orchestra, exquisitely and tirelessly playing in a two-story hall, festively flooded with lights, crowded with low-cut ladies and men in tailcoats and tuxedos, slender footmen and respectful head waiters, among whom one, the one who took orders only for wine, even walked around with a chain around his neck, like a lord mayor. The tuxedo and starched underwear made the gentleman from San Francisco look very young. Dry, short, awkwardly cut, but tightly sewn, he sat in the golden-pearl radiance of this palace behind a bottle of wine, behind glasses and goblets of the finest glass, behind a curly bouquet of hyacinths. There was something Mongolian in his yellowish face with a trimmed silver mustache, his large teeth glittered with gold fillings, and his strong bald head was old ivory. His wife was dressed richly, but according to her years, a large, broad and calm woman; complex, but light and transparent, with innocent frankness - a daughter, tall, thin, with magnificent hair, charmingly dressed, with aromatic breath from violet cakes and with the most delicate pink pimples near her lips and between her shoulder blades, slightly powdered... The dinner lasted more than an hour, and after lunch they opened at ballroom dances, during which men - including, of course, the gentleman from San Francisco - with their legs in the air, their faces crimson red, smoked Havana cigars and got drunk on liqueurs in a bar where blacks in red camisoles served, with squirrels looking like flaky hard-boiled eggs. The ocean roared behind the wall like black mountains, the blizzard whistled strongly in the heavy rigging, the whole steamer trembled, overcoming both it and these mountains, as if with a plow, breaking apart their unsteady masses, now and then boiling and fluttering high with foamy tails, in the siren suffocated by the fog moaned in mortal melancholy, the watchmen on their watchtower were freezing from the cold and went crazy from the unbearable strain of attention, the gloomy and sultry depths of the underworld, its last, ninth circle was like the underwater womb of the steamer - the one where the gigantic furnaces cackled dully, devouring with their hot the mouths of piles of coal, with a roar thrown into them by people drenched in acrid, dirty sweat and naked to the waist, crimson from the flames; and here, in the bar, they carelessly threw their feet on the arms of the chairs, sipped cognac and liqueurs, swam in waves of spicy smoke, dance hall everything was shining and shedding light, warmth and joy, the couples were spinning in waltzes, bending in tango - and the music persistently, in sweet, shameless sadness, begged for everything, everything for the same...

(I.A. Bunin “Mr. from San Francisco”)


  1. What term in literary criticism is used to describe an artistic image that contains a generalized polysemantic meaning (ocean, steamship Atlantis)?

  2. To which of epic genres belongs to the work of I.A. Bunin's "Mr. from San Francisco"?

  3. What is the term for the remedy? allegorical expressiveness, to which the author refers, describing the giant steamship Atlantis and its passengers: “... the floors... gaped with countless fiery eyes”; “swimmed in waves of spicy smoke”?

  4. Describing the appearance of the Atlantis commander, A. Bunin depicts him as “a red-haired man of monstrous size and bulk, always seemingly sleepy, looking like a huge idol in his uniform with wide gold stripes and very rarely appearing in public from his mysterious chambers.” What is this technique of characterizing a hero called in literary criticism?

  5. Specify the term used to call the image inner life character, analysis of the hero’s personality traits.

  6. What technique associated with endowing inanimate objects with the properties of living beings is contained in the following words: “... in mortal anguish, a siren suffocated by fog moaned...”?

  7. Indicate the name of the artistic figurative definition (“There was something Mongolian in his yellowish face with trimmed silver his mustache and gold fillings glittered large teeth, old ivory - strong bald head".)

  1. How does it manifest itself? author's attitude to the gentleman from San Francisco and the passengers of Atlantis?

  2. Which of the Russian writers of the 20th century addressed the theme of the “well-fed” and how is this theme refracted in the fate of the gentleman from San Francisco?

The story "Clean Monday"

Bunin's heroes are uncompromising in their quest for absolute love. “We were both rich, healthy, young and so good-looking that in restaurants and at concerts people looked at us,” says the hero “ Clean Monday" It would seem that they have everything for absolute happiness. What else is needed? The hero of “Clean Monday” is an “ordinary” person, for all his physical attractiveness and emotional fullness. Not that – a heroine. In her strange actions one can feel the significance of her character, the rarity of her “chosen” nature. Her mind is torn. She is not averse to plunging into the “today’s” life of that elite Moscow, but internally she is alien to all this. She is intensely looking for something whole, heroic, selfless and finds her ideal in serving God. The present seems pitiful and untenable to her. On “Clean Monday” she settled with the “peace” - alluring love and loved ones - and went to the “great tonsure”, to the monastery.
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On the ground floor in Egorov's tavern Okhotny Ryad it was full of shaggy, thickly dressed cab drivers cutting up stacks of pancakes, filled to excess with butter and sour cream; it was steamy, like in a bathhouse. In the upper rooms, also very warm, with low ceilings, the Old Testament merchants washed down fiery pancakes with grainy caviar with frozen champagne. We went into the second room, where in the corner, in front of the black board of the icon of the Mother of God of Three Hands, a lamp was burning, we sat down at a long table on a black leather sofa... The fluff on her upper lip was frosted, the amber of her cheeks turned slightly pink, the blackness of the paradise completely merged with pupil, - I could not take my enthusiastic eyes off her face. And she said, taking a handkerchief from her fragrant muff:

Fine! There are wild men below, and here are pancakes with champagne and the Mother of God of Three Hands. Three hands! After all, this is India! You are a gentleman, you cannot understand this whole Moscow the way I do.

I can, I can! - I answered. - And let's order lunch strong!

How do you mean “strong”?

This means strong. How come you don't know? “Gyurgi’s speech...”

How good! Gyurgi!

Yes, Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. “Gyurga’s speech to Svyatoslav, Prince of Seversky: “Come to me, brother, in Moscow” and then arrange a dinner.”

How good. And now only this Rus' remains in some northern monasteries. Yes, even in church hymns. Recently I went to the Conception Monastery - you can’t imagine how wonderfully the stichera are sung there! And in Chudovoy it’s even better. I last year I kept going there on Strastnaya. Oh, how good it was! There are puddles everywhere, the air is already soft, my soul is somehow tender, sad, and all the time there is this feeling of the homeland, its antiquity... All the doors in the cathedral are open, all day long ordinary people come and go, all day long the service... Oh, I’ll leave I’m going somewhere to a monastery, to some very remote one, in Vologda, Vyatka!<...>

And I was already absent-mindedly listening to what she said next. And she spoke to quiet light In eyes:

I love Russian chronicles, I love Russian legends so much that I keep re-reading what I especially like until I know it by heart. “There was a city in the Russian land called Murom, and in it a noble prince ruled autocrat, named Pavel. And the devil introduced a flying serpent to his wife for fornication. And this serpent appeared to her in human nature, extremely beautiful...”

I jokingly made scary eyes:

Oh, what a horror!

She continued without listening:

This is how God tested her. “When the time came for a blessed death, this prince and princess begged God to repose before them on one day. And they agreed to be buried in a single coffin. And they ordered to carve two grave beds in a single stone. And they clothed themselves, at the same time, in monastic robes...”

And again my absent-mindedness gave way to surprise and even anxiety: what’s wrong with her today?

(I.A. Bunin “Clean Monday”)


  1. The conflict associated with the relationship between the hero and heroine determines the plot action of “Clean Monday” by I.A. Bunina. Define this conflict.

  2. What genre does “Clean Monday” by I.A. belong to? Bunin?

  3. Indicate the term used in literary criticism to describe the setting of an action, interior decoration premises (“We went into the second room, where in the corner, in front of the black board of the icon of the Mother of God of the Three-Handed, a lamp was burning, we sat down at a long table on a black leather sofa...”).

  4. Name artistic medium, based on an image of a person’s appearance, his face, clothes, etc. (“The fluff on her upper lip was frosted, the amber of her cheeks turned slightly pink, the blackness of the paradise completely merged with the pupil...”).

  5. Describing the tavern where the heroes arrived, I.A. Bunin uses figurative expression, built on the comparison of two objects, concepts or states that have common feature(“it was steamy, like in a bathhouse”). What is the name of this artistic technique?

  6. Name the form artistic speech- exchange of remarks between characters, which is used by I.A. Bunin.

  7. Describing the heroine’s contradictory feelings, I.A. Bunin contrasts objects and phenomena: “There are wild men below, and here are pancakes with champagne and the Mother of God of Three Hands...”. What is the name of this artistic technique?

  1. What is the difference spiritual world hero and heroine and how did she determine their future fate?

  2. What are the similarities between “Clean Monday” by I.A. Bunin with other works of Russian classics of the 19th-20th centuries. about love? (When comparing, indicate works and authors.)

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius

(1869-1945)

Z.N. Gippius is a poet and prose writer, critic, author of many collections of poems, stories, dramas, and articles. D.S.'s wife Merezhkovsky.

Not accepting the 1917 revolution, she emigrated to France. Born in Belev. She lived in Tula for some time. Living in a foreign land, she was tormented by the memory of Russia: “Lord, let me see! I pray at night. Let me see my Russia again! However, she was not destined to see her or return to Russia. The poetess's work represents characteristic phenomenon Russian decadence. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she was a recognized authority in literature.

Know!

She will not die - know this!

She will not die, -Russia.

They will sprout - believe me!

Its fields are golden.

And we will not die - believe me!

What do we need our salvation for?

Russia will be saved - know this!

And her Sunday is approaching.

1918

Yaroslav Vasilievich Smelyakov

(1913-1072)

Y.V.Smelyakov is a poet. Fate connected the classic of Russian poetry with the Tula region. After his release from captivity in 1945-1947, Smelyakov, a camp inmate, lived in Novomoskovsk. Worked in a bathhouse. He spoke to the miners. He collaborated with a local newspaper and directed its literary association.

This period of his life was surprisingly fruitful. The following poems were written: “Someone came up with this happily,” “Here I remembered you again, Mom,” “Locomotive Cemetery,” the poem “The Miner’s Lamp,” the play “Friends of Mikhail Yugov.” A memorial plaque was installed on the building of the newspaper editorial office, where the poet worked as an executive secretary. Novomoskovsk residents are proud of the wonderful Russian poet, who was given shelter and work during a difficult period of his life.

We spent the night in schools more than once.

We spent the night in schools more than once,

Weapons placed in our heads,

Among the white walls, tattered and bare,

On hastily swept floors.

And we dreamed that in schools we might dream:

Bird cherry, buzzing of May bees,

The eyes and braids of the first student,

Chalk and ink, globe and football.

We got up right at dawn,

Having taken off our tunics, we washed ourselves by the river.

And they walked forward, calm as children,

All-knowing, like old people.

We moved forward - retribution and retribution,

Left in the classroom near the wall

Pages of Pravda, a crumpled grenade,

Multiplied soldier's bloody bandage -

Visual aids of war.
Igor Talkov

(1956-1991)
Igor Talkov is a poet, singer, composer. Born on November 4, 1956 in the city of Shchekino Tula region. In 1975, he created the first musical group in his life, and his VIA took over first Shchekino and then Tula dance floors. Talkov becomes a Tula celebrity.

Igor considered himself a patriot because he was not indifferent to what was happening to Russia. Talkov loved Russia and wanted its revival.

September 6, 1991 in St. Petersburg in the sports - concert hall“Jubilee” Igor Talkov was killed.

In his work he knew how to combine the incongruous: soft, lyrical songs about love sounded against the backdrop of harsh political, screaming compositions. But this is the essence of his soul. Talkov did not compose on purpose, he wrote only when something deeply worried him.

***

Someday, when evil gets tired

To rape you, barely alive, and on your withered brow

The Lord will shed a tear of rain,

You will straighten your broken figure,

As before, you will feel like a mission

And you will blossom to the envy of all your enemies,

Unhappy Great Russia.
Pavel Adamovich Lagun
P.A. Lagun lives in the city of Donskoy, Tula region. A philologist by training; Graduated from Tula State Pedagogical Institute named after. L.N. Tolstoy. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia. Author poetry collections“The Winged Horse”, “Loneliness”, “Rotation of the Earth”, “The Philosopher’s Stone”, as well as prose works, novels “One Millionth Life”, “Procrustean Bed”; stories “Astral Body”, “Debt Pit”, “Division”. Author of a number of articles and publications in the central press.

Poems by P. Laguna were published in the magazines “Young Guard”, “Smena”, almanacs “Istoki”, “Oka”, and the newspaper “Literary Russia”.

Based on the novel “One Millionth Life,” a full-length feature film was shot in Poland in 1995. This novel became the laureate of a literary competition announced in 1996 by the Russian Committee of Former Concentration Camp Prisoners.

***

No one will return it back

You love, hope, faith.

No one will ever knock

To your open doors.
Only the wind is a rusty loop

It creaks with an unbearable whistle;

Yes, autumn is a dirty broom

Rakes up piles of yellow leaves.
And like leaves in the wind

Souls are untied particles...

An old friend will not return,

And only the rain knocks on the door.

Vladimir Ivanovich Filatov

(1949-1996)

V. Filatov was born in 1949 in the city of Donskoy. At the age of two, he became seriously ill and stopped walking in the fourth grade. I studied at home.

He began writing poetry at the age of 12 and was fond of reading. historical novels and playing chess, painting on wood, photography. His favorite poets were V. Vysotsky, B. Okudzhava, B. Pasternak, M. Tsvetaeva.

Vladimir felt it more strongly than those around him, and more clearly, because next to him, shackled by illness and disability, everyone felt warm. Everyone needed his supportive words, his remarkable knowledge, his spiritual complicity, his ability to see light and kindness in everything called the world around him.

For everyone, he was that candle that was lit not for light, but for warmth. And like a lit candle, it slowly melted away. V. Filatov passed away on July 17, 1996.

It’s like the wire of the soul has been exposed -

I don't recommend touching it.

It didn’t work out, alas, it didn’t work out

My unforgettable happiness.

They fell apart like cubes at once

All attempts to find and add up.

And fate bares its teeth, “infection”

Doesn't let me either die or live.

It's easier to bear grief alone:

Less moaning, resentment and tears.

So I didn’t sleep last night

And he took the grievances to the dustbin.

It became easier to meet eyes,

But don't touch the soul - it hurts.

There's only one thing left to do: say goodbye

And pray to Christ for salvation.

Literary image. Word and image

A literary image is artistic reflection with the help of words of human characters, events, objects, phenomena in a specific, individually sensory form.

The term “image” in literary criticism is understood as 1) a character in a work of art (hero, character, character), and as 2) a reflection of reality in an individual form (verbal image or trope).

The images created by the writer are distinguished by their emotionality, associativity, originality, and capacity.

Artistic image. Image and sign

When referring to the ways (means) by which literature and other forms of art that have figurativeness carry out their mission, philosophers and scientists have long used the term “image” ( other-gr. eidos – appearance, appearance). As part of philosophy and psychology, images are specific representations, i.e., the reflection by human consciousness of individual objects (phenomena, facts, events) in their sensory perceptible form. They oppose the abstract concepts, which record the general, repeating properties of reality, ignoring its unique individual features. There are, in other words, sensory-figurative and conceptual-logical forms of mastering the world.

Further distinguishable figurative representations(as a phenomenon of consciousness) and images themselves as the sensory (visual and auditory) embodiment of ideas. A.A. Potebnya in his work “Thought and Language” considered the image as reproduced representation - as a certain sensory perceived reality 1 . It is this meaning of the word “image” that is vital for the theory of art, which distinguishes between scientific-illustrative, factual (informing about facts that actually took place) and artistic images 2 . The latter (and this is their specificity) are created with the explicit participation of the imagination: they do not simply reproduce isolated facts, but condense and concentrate aspects of life that are significant for the author in the name of its evaluative comprehension. The artist’s imagination is, therefore, not only a psychological stimulus for his creativity, but also a certain reality present in the work. In the latter there is a fictitious objectivity that does not fully correspond to itself in reality.

Nowadays, the words “sign” and “sign” have taken root in literary studies. They have noticeably replaced the usual vocabulary (“image”, “imagery”). The sign is the central concept of semiotics, the science of sign systems. Structuralism, which became established in the humanities in the 1960s, and post-structuralism, which replaced it, is oriented toward semiotics.

A sign is a material object that acts as a representative and substitute for another, “pre-found” object (or property and relationship). Signs constitute systems that serve to receive, store and enrich information, that is, they have primarily a cognitive purpose.

The creators and supporters of semiotics consider it as a kind of center of scientific knowledge. One of the founders of this discipline, the American scientist C. Morris (1900 - 1978) wrote: “The relationship of semiotics to the sciences is twofold: on the one hand, it is a science among other sciences, and on the other hand, it is an instrument of the sciences”: a means of unification different areas scientific knowledge and giving it “greater simplicity, rigor, clarity, the path to liberation from the “web of words” that the man of science has woven” 3 .

Domestic scientists (Yu.M. Lotman and his associates) placed the concept of a sign at the center of cultural studies; the idea of ​​culture as a primarily semiotic phenomenon was substantiated. “Any reality,” wrote Yu.M. Lotman and B.A. Uspensky, referring to the French structuralist philosopher M. Foucault, - involved in the sphere of culture, begins to function as a symbolic<...>The very attitude towards sign And iconicity constitutes one of the main characteristics of culture" 4 .

Speaking about the sign process in the composition of human life ( semiotics), experts identify three aspects of sign systems: 1) syntactics(relationship of signs to each other); 2) semantics(the relationship of a sign to what it denotes: the signifier to the signified); 3) pragmatics(the relationship of signs to those who operate with them and perceive them).

Signs are classified in a certain way. They are combined into three large groups: 1) indexical sign (sign- index) indicates an object, but does not characterize it; it is based on the metonymic principle of contiguity (smoke as evidence of a fire, a skull as a warning of danger to life); 2) sign- symbol is conditional, here the signifier has neither similarity nor connection with the signified, such as words of natural language (except onomatopoeic) or components of mathematical formulas; 3) iconic signs reproduce certain qualities of the signified or its holistic appearance and, as a rule, are visual. In the series of iconic signs they differ, firstly, diagrams- schematic recreations of objectivity that is not entirely specific (graphic designation of industrial development or the evolution of fertility) and, secondly, images that adequately recreate the sensory properties of the designated single object (photographs, reports, as well as capturing the fruits of observation and fiction in works of art) 5 .

Thus, the concept of “sign” did not abolish traditional ideas about image and figurativeness, but placed these ideas in a new, very broad semantic context. The concept of a sign, vital in the science of language, is also significant for literary studies: firstly, in the field of studying the verbal fabric of works, and secondly, when referring to the forms of behavior of characters.

In images-tropes, one object is equated to another by association, the unknown is explained by the known, and the so-called “figurative” meaning is manifested.

There are different types of images and different ways their classifications. If we consider everything fantasized by a writer in a work of art as an image, then according to its objectivity we can build a series from the image-detail in such varieties as the image of paths, the image of landscape, the image of a thing, the image of a portrait, through the image of a plot, then the image of a character. , and to holistic images of fate and the world, the image of being.

According to their semantic generality, images can be divided into individual, characteristic and type images. Separately, we can distinguish the image-motive, image-topos and image-archetype, as well as the concept of chronotope. These are images that go beyond the boundaries of a single work; they can be repeated.

An image-motif is repeated in several works by one author or by many authors. (The image of a snowstorm and wind by Blok, rain and a garden by Pasternak.

Topos image (common place) - an image characteristic of an entire culture certain period, for the whole nation. (topos of the road, winter in Russian literature).

Archetype image - the most stable images that appear in literature different nations along the entire path of development.

Chronotope is a term proposed by D. Bakhtin. This is “a significant interconnection of temporal and spatial relations, artistically mastered in literature”, otherwise called “time-space”.

In poetry, there is also the concept of a “lyrical hero” - a collective image behind the lyrical verses of a particular poet.

The meaning of ARTISTIC IMAGE in the Dictionary of Literary Terms

ARTISTIC IMAGE

A generalized artistic reflection of reality in a specific form, a painting human life(or a fragment of such a painting), created with the help of the artist’s creative imagination and in the light of his aesthetic ideal. Oh. helps not only to reproduce this or that phenomenon of reality, but also to express its essence. Dual in nature: on the one hand, it is a product of extremely individualized artistic description, on the other hand, it has the functionality of a symbol and carries a generalizing principle. Oh. is created with the help of typification, generalization, fiction (convention) and has independent aesthetic meaning.

Dictionary of literary terms. 2012

See also interpretations, synonyms, meanings of the word and what an ARTISTIC IMAGE is in Russian in dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books:

  • IMAGE. in the Literary Encyclopedia:
    1. Statement of the question. 2. O. as a phenomenon of class ideology. 3. Individualization of reality in O. . 4. Typification of reality...
  • IMAGE in the Dictionary of Analytical Psychology:
    (Image; Bild) - the context in which the symbol is embedded, both personal and collective. “When I talk about an image, I mean when ...
  • IMAGE
    GOODS - a specific idea formed by the consumer, buyer about the actually existing or future...
  • IMAGE in the Dictionary of Economic Terms:
    LIFE is a general concept that characterizes the social and economic side of people’s lives in terms of the volume and structure of consumption of goods and...
  • IMAGE in the Dictionary Index of Theosophical Concepts to the Secret Doctrine, Theosophical Dictionary:
    Occultism does not allow any images other than the image of a living reflection of the divine man (symbol of Humanity) on earth. Kabbalah teaches that this...
  • IMAGE in the Bible Encyclopedia of Nikephoros:
    (Genesis 1:26,27). The book of Genesis says that the Lord created man in His own image and likeness and about the Lord Jesus Christ...
  • IMAGE in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  • IMAGE
    in philosophy, the result and perfect shape reflection of an object in human consciousness, arising in the conditions of socio-historical practice, on the basis and in ...
  • ART in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:
    , -th, -oe; -ven, -ve nna. 1. see art. 2. full f. Relating to art, to activities in the field of art. ...
  • IMAGE in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:
    1, -a, me. -ы, -ов, m. 1. In philosophy: the result and ideal form of reflection of objects and phenomena of the material world in ...
  • IMAGE
    LIFESTYLE, philosophical-sociol. a concept that covers the totality of typical activities of an individual, social group, society as a whole in unity with the conditions...
  • IMAGE in the Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary:
    IMAGE, in psychology, a subjective picture of the world, including the subject himself, other people, spaces. environment and time sequence of events. O. artistic - ...
  • ART
    artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic, artistic feminine, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, artistically, …
  • IMAGE in the Complete Accented Paradigm according to Zaliznyak:
    o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, o"braz, ...
  • IMAGE in the Complete Accented Paradigm according to Zaliznyak:
    about "image, image", about "image, image" in, about "image, image", about "image, image", about "image, image", about "image", ...
  • IMAGE in the Dictionary of epithets:
    Artistic generalization; phenomena, types, characters in painting, literature, music, on stage, etc. Abstract, allegorical, archaic, colorless, pale, great, ...
  • ART in the Popular Explanatory Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Russian Language:
    -aya, -oe; artistic, -enna 1) full f. Depicting reality in images. Artistic creativity. Fiction. Feature Film. Piece of art. IN …
  • IMAGE in the Popular Explanatory Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Russian Language.
  • IMAGE in the Dictionary for solving and composing scanwords.
  • IMAGE in the Thesaurus of Russian Business Vocabulary:
  • IMAGE in the Russian Language Thesaurus:
    Syn: appearance, image, appearance; reflection, display, representation; symbol, type; way, …
  • ART
    cm. …
  • IMAGE in Abramov's Dictionary of Synonyms:
    icon, face Folding image. See view, image, icon, method, style || mainly, in another way, fundamentally, in no way, according to the image, ...
  • ART
    highly artistic, picturesque, beautiful, imaginative, poetic, ...
  • IMAGE in the Russian Synonyms dictionary:
    brand, appearance, appearance, pupil, idea, image, icon, image, image, film image, face, manner, manner, direction, appearance, appearance, guise, guise, icon, display, ...
  • ART
    adj. 1) Correlative in meaning. with noun: art associated with it. 2) a) Related to activities in the field of art. b) ...
  • IMAGE in the New Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by Efremova:
    1. m. 1) a) Appearance, appearance of someone, something. b) Similarity to someone, something. c) outdated Image. 2) a) Lively, visual...
  • IMAGE in Lopatin’s Dictionary of the Russian Language:
  • ART in the Spelling Dictionary:
    artistic; cr. f. -ven and -venen, ...
  • IMAGE in the Spelling Dictionary:
    `image 2, -a, plural. -`a, -`ov...
  • IMAGE in the Spelling Dictionary:
    `image 1, -a, plural. -s, -ov (what appears to be...
  • ART
    related to art, to activities in the field of art Art school. H. theater director. Gymnastics. Amateur artistic activity. Artistic construction (design). ...
  • IMAGE in Ozhegov’s Dictionary of the Russian Language:
    1st type, appearance Create something. in one’s own image and likeness (i.e., similar to oneself; bookish). Lose o. human (that...
  • IMAGE in Modern explanatory dictionary, TSB:
    1) in psychology - a subjective picture of the world, including the subject himself, other people, the spatial environment and the temporal sequence of events. 2) An artistic image ...
  • ART
    artistic, artistic; artistic and (rarely) artistic, artistic, artistic. 1. only full. forms. Adj., by meaning related to art, activities...
  • IMAGE in Ushakov’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language:
    image, plural images, m. 1. Appearance, appearance, likeness (book). Zakhar did not try to change not only the image given to him by God, but...
  • IMAGE in Ushakov’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language:
    image, plural image, m. The same as ...
  • ART
    artistic adj. 1) Correlative in meaning. with noun: art associated with it. 2) a) Related to activities in the field of art. ...
  • IMAGE in Ephraim's Explanatory Dictionary:
    image 1. m. 1) a) Appearance, appearance of someone, something. b) Similarity to someone, something. c) outdated Image. 2) a) Living, ...
  • ART
    adj. 1. ratio with noun art related to it 2. Related to activities in the field of art. Ott. Characteristic of people of art,...
  • IMAGE in the New Dictionary of the Russian Language by Efremova:
    I m. 1. Appearance, appearance of someone, something. Ott. The likeness of someone or something. Ott. outdated Image. 2. A lively, visual representation of...
  • ART
    adj. 1. ratio with noun art related to it 2. Related to activities in the field of art. Ott. Peculiar to people...
  • IMAGE in the Large Modern Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language:
    I m. 1. Appearance, appearance, appearance, appearance. 2. A living, visual representation of someone or something. Ott. What...
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In epistemological terms artistic image- a type of image in general, which is understood as the result of the human consciousness mastering the surrounding reality. /…/

Artistic image- a category of aesthetics that characterizes the result of an author’s (artist’s) comprehension of a phenomenon or process in ways characteristic of a particular type of art, objectified in the form of a work as a whole or its individual fragments or parts (for example, a literary work-image may include a system of images characters; sculptural composition, being a holistic image, often consists of a gallery of plastic images). /…/

The origins of the image theory are in antiquity (the doctrine of mimesis). But a detailed justification is a concept. Close to modern, given in German classical aesthetics, especially in Hegel. The philosopher saw in art a sensual (i.e., perceived by the senses) embodiment of an idea... /.../ An artistic image, according to Hegel, is the result of the “purification” of a phenomenon from everything random that obscures the essence, the result of its “idealization.” /…/

By definition, an artistic image is a manifestation of creative freedom. Like a concept, an artistic image performs a cognitive function, representing the unity of individual and general qualities subject, but the knowledge contained in it is largely subjective, colored author's position, his vision of the depicted phenomenon; it takes on sensually perceived forms and expressively affects the feelings and minds of readers, listeners, and spectators. /…/

What is the specific features artistic image?

Artistic consciousness, combining rational (discursive) and intuitive approaches, grasps the indivisibility, integrity, completeness of the real existence of the phenomena of reality and reflects it in a sensory-visual form. The artistic image, to paraphrase Schelling, is a way of expressing the infinite through the finite. Any image is perceived and assessed as a certain integrity, even if it was created from one or two parts... /.../ As an object aesthetic perception and judgment, the image is complete, even if the principle of the author’s poetics is deliberate fragmentation, sketchiness, and reticence. In these cases, the semantic load on an individual part is enormous.

An artistic image always carries a generalization, that is, it has typical meaning (gr. typos - imprint, imprint). If in reality the relationship between the general and the individual can be different (in particular, the individual can obscure the general), then the images of art are bright, concentrated embodiments of the general, essential in the individual.

Artistic generalization in creative practice takes different shapes, colored by the author's emotions and assessments. For example, an image may have representative character, when some features of a real object stand out, “sharpen”, or be symbol. /…/

The “familiar stranger” type a literary character becomes as a result creative typing, i.e., selecting certain aspects of life phenomena and emphasizing them, exaggerating them in artistic depiction. It is precisely to reveal certain properties that seem essential to the writer that conjecture, fiction, and fantasy are needed. /…/

Artistic image expressive, i.e. expresses the author’s ideological and emotional attitude to the subject. It is addressed not only to the mind, but also to the feelings of readers, listeners, and spectators. /…/

Artistic image self-sufficient, it is a form of expression of content in art. /…/ The generalization that an artistic image carries within itself is usually not “formulated” anywhere by the author.

Being the embodiment of the general, essential in individual, an artistic image can generate different interpretations, including those that the author did not think about. This feature of it follows from the nature of art as a form of reflection of the world through the prism of individual consciousness. /…/

The imagery of art creates objective preconditions for disputes about the meaning of the work, for its various interpretations, both close to the author’s concept and polemical in relation to it. Characteristic is the reluctance of many writers to define the idea of ​​their work, to “translate” it into the language of concepts. /…/

The artistic image is a complex phenomenon. It integrates the individual and the general as a whole. Essential (characteristic, typical), as well as the means of their implementation.

The image exists objectively, as an author’s construction embodied in the appropriate material, as a “thing in itself.” However, becoming an element of the consciousness of “others”. The image acquires a subjective existence and generates an aesthetic field that goes beyond the author's intention.

  • The word "image" has several meanings. In the "Dictionary of the Russian Language" S.I. Ozhegov he is given the following interpretations: "1. Appearance, appearance; 2. A living, visual representation of someone or something; 3. In literature, art: a generalized artistic reflection of reality, clothed in the form of a specific, individual phenomenon; 4. In artistic work: type, character; 5. Order, direction of something, method" [Ozhegov 1986: 372].

    The presence of different meanings of a word contributes to the fact that it is used in everyday life and at the same time acts as a term in various sciences. In philosophy, “image” refers to the reflection of life phenomena in people’s minds, any “reflection” of real reality (both conceptual and sensory). In psychology, “image” means representation, that is, mental contemplation of an object in its entirety.

    Scientists emphasize that outside of images there is no reflection of reality, no knowledge, no imagination, no creativity. The image can take various shapes, both sensory (sensations, perceptions, ideas) and rational (judgments, conclusions, theories). At the same time, images can be some kind of idealized constructions that are not directly related to really existing objects and phenomena ( fantastic images The snake of Gorynych or Baba Yaga in fairy tales, mythological images of centaurs or sirens).

    Images surround people in their Everyday life. They are found in photo albums, in private correspondence, in diaries, etc. Scientists often use images as an aid when presenting their theories. Images are used in science to make reasoning and conclusions expressed using abstract concepts more accessible and visual. Along with this, images can be found in newspaper essays and journalistic writings. Such images are called factographic, scientific-illustrative, journalistic-illustrative [Introduction to literary criticism 1976: 35 - 37]. Their main feature is that they show phenomena as they appear in reality, without making any additions or adjustments to this image.

    An artistic image is a type of image in general, which is understood as the result of a person’s awareness of the phenomena of the surrounding world. In art criticism, the term “artistic image” is used to designate a special, inherent only to art, way of mastering real reality and transforming it into artistic reality. “For art historians, an “image” is not just a reflection of a separate phenomenon of life in human consciousness, and this is the reproduction of a phenomenon already reflected and realized by the artist with the help of certain material means - with the help of speech, facial expressions and gestures, outlines and colors, a system of sounds, etc. "[Introduction to literary criticism 1976: 34].

    Modern literary scholars call an image any phenomenon creatively recreated in a work of art (especially often a character or literary hero). The very terminological phrase “image of something” or “image of someone” indicates the stable ability of an artistic image to relate to extra-artistic phenomena, to “absorb” real reality. This is where the dominant position of the category “image” in aesthetic systems, establishing a specific connection between art and non-art - life, consciousness, etc.

    The origins of image theory go back to ancient times. This theory began to be developed by the ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle (IV century BC), who pointed out that art is an “imitation of nature.” They used the word “nature” to describe all real life - both natural and social - consisting of individual phenomena.

    In antiquity, the word “eidos” was used to denote an image, which was simultaneously used in two meanings. “Eidos” was the name given to both the external appearance of an object, its external appearance, and its essence, idea. According to ancient philosophers, art is connected with eidos not directly, but through “mimesis,” that is, through imitation. Ancient Greek thinkers called “imitation” the ability of art to recreate individual phenomena of life in sculptures and paintings, in works of art and stage performances. Thus, “mimesis” is the imitation and at the same time the transformation of an object that exists in reality into an image. In general, the statements of ancient thinkers indicate that they noted the dependence of “eidos” on reality.

    The definition of art as “imitation of nature” is found in many works of a theoretical and literary nature until the 18th century. The German philosopher G.W.F. refused to consider artistic creativity from such positions. Hegel, who in his “Aesthetics” gave an interpretation of the concept of “image” close to modern ones.

    Hegel drew the main attention to the fact that works of art are not a simple “imitation of nature.” They recreate the phenomena of reality. According to the philosopher, “artistic comprehension differs from theoretical, scientific study in that it is interested in the subject in its individual existence and does not strive to turn it into a universal thought and concept” [cit. according to Introduction to Literary Studies 2004: 24]. At the same time, Hegel emphasized that the singular, individual in art is capable of vividly, tangibly, visibly conveying the general.

    It should be noted that in using the word “image”, Hegel did not give it special significance. This was later done by art theorists; Hegel's ideas turned out to be more durable than their methodological context and entered - in a transformed form - into modern literary criticism.

    Currently, the artistic image is interpreted as “a category of aesthetics that characterizes the result of an author’s (artist’s) understanding of a phenomenon or process in ways characteristic of a particular type of art, objectified in the form of a work as a whole or its individual fragments or parts” [Introduction to Literary Studies 2004 : 23]. In particular, a literary work as an artistic whole is an image. It may include a system of images-characters, which, in turn, are created using visual and expressive means of poetic imagery.

    Images sometimes include tropes (metaphor, metonymy, periphrasis, etc.). At the same time, literary scholars point out that speech (verbal structure) and the objective world of a work are different levels artistic whole. Any image in in a broad sense The words are allegorical and polysemantic. The imagery of individual speech units and the imagery of texts are not identical; the world of literary works retains its imagery even if it is created with the help of ugly words.

    Paths allow you to depict the image of a particular hero or phenomenon more vividly and colorfully, and contribute to the emergence of additional associations in the minds of readers. “But these are not independent images: they do not change the theme of the statement, remaining outside the world of the work (as the object of the image)” [Introduction to Literary Studies 2004: 40].

    Scientists emphasize that in an artistic image the objective-cognitive and subjective-creative principles are inextricably fused. Revealing specific features artistic images, literary scholars traditionally consider them in relation to two spheres: reality and the process of thinking.

    As a reflection of reality, the image is, to one degree or another, endowed with sensory authenticity, spatio-temporal extension, objective completeness, self-sufficiency and other properties of a single, really existing object. At the same time, the image is not a real object, since it is delimited by a conventional framework from the entire surrounding reality and belongs to the internal, “illusory” world of the work.

    Being not a real, but an “ideal” object, an image has some properties of concepts, ideas, hypotheses and other mental constructs. The image not only reflects reality, it generalizes, reveals in the individual and random - the essential, the most characteristic, the typical. At the same time, unlike abstract concept, the image is clear; it does not decompose the phenomenon into abstract rational components, but preserves sensory integrity and uniqueness. In other words, the image represents in “the same integrity both the concept of an object and its external existence” [Literary Encyclopedic Dictionary 1987: 252].

    The creative nature of images, like the cognitive nature, manifests itself in two ways. On the one hand, an artistic image is the result of the activity of the imagination, which recreates the world in accordance with the spiritual needs and aspirations of man, his purposeful activity and holistic ideals. Therefore, in the image, along with the objectively existing and essential, the possible, desired, assumed, that is, everything that relates to the subjective, emotional-volitional sphere of existence is imprinted. On the other hand, in contrast to purely mental images of fantasy, in an artistic image one achieves creative transformation real material: sounds, colors, words, etc. As a result of this, a single “thing” is created (text, painting, sculpture), which occupies its special place among the objects of the real world. Having become objectified, the image returns to the reality that it depicted, but no longer as a passive reproduction of it, but as an active transformation.

    “The transition of sensory reflection into mental generalization and further into fictional reality and its sensory embodiment - such is the internally mobile essence of the image in its two-way appeal from the real to the ideal (in the process of cognition) and from the ideal to the real (in the process of creativity) [Literary Encyclopedic Dictionary 1987 : 252]. As a result, the image is always a combination of objective and subjective principles. The objective "component" of an artistic image is those phenomena and objects that were captured by the writer in the work, the subjective one is the position of the author, who acted as the creator of artistic reality.

    By comparing images as such and artistic images, art critics emphasize that there is much in common between them. At the same time, there are significant differences. Unlike scientific-illustrative, journalistic-illustrative or factual images, images of art are the creation of the creative thought and imagination of an artist, sculptor or writer. They do not appear to illustrate general observations and conclusions, or to provide information about any events, phenomena, etc. Artistic images have their own special purpose, which determines a number of features characteristic of such images.

    Firstly, artistic consciousness, combining rational and intuitive approaches, captures the indivisibility, integrity, completeness of the real existence of the phenomena of reality and reflects it in a sensory-visual form. In this regard, any image is perceived as a certain integrity, even if it was created by the writer with the help of one or two details. Readers must fill in what is missing in their imagination.

    Secondly, an artistic image is always a generalization. If in reality the relationship between the individual and the general can be different (in particular, the individual can obscure the general), then the images of art are concentrated embodiments of the general, essential in the individual.

    Artistic generalization in creative practice takes various forms, colored by the author's emotions and assessments. For example, an image can have a representative character, when some features of a real object stand out, “sharpen”, or be a symbol.

    Often proper names literary characters are beginning to be perceived by readers as household names (Mitrofanushka ("The Minor" by D.I. Fonvizin), Khlestakov ("The Inspector General" by N.V. Gogol), etc.). This serves as a clear indicator of the general meaning of artistic images.

    Typification does not necessarily imply the creation of life-like images. To focus attention on any general outline displayed phenomena, to more fully reflect the essence of what is being typified, writers can resort to the grotesque, fantasy, hyperbole ("The Nose" by N.V. Gogol, "The History of a City" by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, etc.). These conventional forms are characterized by a deformation of reality, a deliberate deviation from external plausibility. Writers depict people, objects and phenomena that have no analogues in reality. In this case, the deliberate conventionality of images often serves to reveal true essence depicted phenomena in a significantly to a greater extent than when the writer does not subject life forms to artistic transformation.

    Third, characteristic feature the artistic image is its expressiveness. The image always reflects the ideological and emotional attitude of the author of the work to the phenomenon or object he depicts, therefore it is addressed not only to the rational sphere, but also to the feelings of listeners or readers.

    The ideological and emotional assessment by writers of the characters they portray is evidenced by the firmly rooted tradition of dividing heroes into “positive,” “negative,” and “contradictory” (with all the reservations of critics about the inaccuracy of such “classifications”).

    The forms of expression of the author's assessment are inexhaustible; in the very general view they can be divided into explicit (direct statements of the writer) and implicit. Close to evaluative vocabulary are tropes, as explicit ways of modeling the world at the stylistic level. The attitude of the author (subject of speech) to the subject is often clarified with the help of associations that arise thanks to tropes (metaphors, metonymies, periphrases, etc.).

    At the subject level, the writer’s possibilities for expressing assessment are much wider: he can not only resort to compositional or stylistic devices, but also to create your own artistic world, with its time and space, characters and plot, details of description, distinguished by emotional expressiveness.

    Fourthly, the artistic image is always self-sufficient. It is the main and self-sufficient means of expressing the content of literary works and, in principle, does not need any explanations or comments.

    As already noted, in science, in addition to image-concepts, images-symbols, images-comparisons are often used, which perform unique functions: they illustrate the points being proven, make phenomena that are inaccessible to the human eye more visual, etc. In particular, the image (symbol) of an atom can be represented in the form of a ball and points rotating around it in orbits - electrons. Artistic images do not complement pre-existing data or expected conclusions, and do not serve to demonstrate any phenomena as illustrative examples, but contain generalizations within themselves, expressing them in their own “language”.

    The “idea” that an artistic image carries is usually not formulated directly by the author. Even if the writer acts as an autocritic, explaining his intention in the work itself or in a separate article, his explanations cannot exhaust the entirety of the image he has drawn.

    The imagery of art creates objective prerequisites for disputes about the meaning of a work, for its various interpretations, both close to the author’s concept and polemical in relation to it. An artistic image can give rise to various interpretations and interpretations, including those that the author did not even think about. This feature of it follows from the nature of art as a form of reflection of the world through the prism of individual consciousness.

    As already indicated, the concept of “image” covers heterogeneous concepts in literary texts. An image is the reproduction of any object or phenomenon in its entirety. Therefore, the question of the typology of images is resolved ambiguously by various scientists.

    The "Literary Encyclopedic Dictionary" proposes a classification of artistic images, which is defined by scientists as subject-specific [Literary Encyclopedic Dictionary 1987: 252].

    According to this classification, images can be divided into a number of groups or “layers” that are closely related to each other. The first of these groups will consist of images - details that have different scales (they can be created in one word and represent detailed descriptions consisting of many details (landscapes, interiors, portraits)). A distinctive feature of all image-details is static and descriptive. The next “layer” of the work is the plot, associated with the action that brings together all the substantive details. It consists of images of external and internal movements: actions, events, moods, motivations - in other words, of all the dynamic moments unfolding in the plot of the work. The third group is formed by the impulses behind actions and determining them - images of characters and circumstances. At the last level, “from the images of characters and circumstances, as a result of their interaction, integral images of fate and the world are formed; this is being in general, as the artist sees and understands it - and behind this global image there are already non-subjective, conceptual layers of the work” [Literary Encyclopedic Dictionary 1987 : 252].

    In the manual edited by L.V. Chernets distinguishes such types of images as image-representation, character (image-character), voice (primary subject of speech) [Introduction to literary criticism. 2004: 43]. The manual "Fundamentals of Literary Theory" states that in literary texts“the main subject of image and expression is a person standing ... at the very center of the poetic universe.” “He can be a character, an image of the author and an image of the reader” [Fedorov 2003: 113].

    It is obvious that in the three classifications given above, a significant place is given to character images. In different literary works this term is interpreted almost identically. "A character (from the French personnage; from persona - face, mask) in the strict sense of this term should be understood as a type of artistic image of a character endowed with external and internal individuality. The general synonymous series: character and character complements the no less popular phrase literary hero" [Fedorov 2003: 113]. “A character (from Latin persona - person, face, mask) is a type of artistic image, a subject of action, statement, experience in a work” [Introduction to Literary Studies 2004: 197].

    Distinguishing characters in relation to the conflict and the main action, they are divided into main, secondary, episodic and off-stage.

    The character sphere of a work may not include all the people depicted in the text; episodic and off-stage characters usually act as representational images. On the other hand, the character in literary text Not only a person can act, but also some fantastic creature, animal, tree, etc., fictional by the author. Becoming a character, any object acquires human (anthropomorphic) features.

    In epic and drama, the story being told (plot) necessarily presupposes the presence of a system of characters or actors. In lyric poetry, characters, as a rule, are absent; lyrical subjects traditionally appear in the foreground in poems.

    The primary subject of speech is usually present in epic works - this is the narrator, on whose behalf the story is told. The choice of a particular subject of speech is extremely important: since he acts as a bearer of a certain “point of view”, going back to the author or, conversely, far from him (this is typical for role-playing lyrics or epic works, where there is a narrator who is not identical to the writer).

    The primary subjects of speech can simultaneously be characters (heroes, actors) of the work. These are, in particular, lyrical hero in A. Blok's poem "The Stranger", the narrator in "The Man in a Case" by A.P. Chekhov, narrator in the series “Notes of a Hunter” by I.S. Turgenev. Along with this, the primary subjects of speech may not be characters and be present in the text only as voices.

    The selected types of images have different structures. An image-representation is most often a description. The image-character has a more detailed, multi-component structure: in this case, the “polar” components can be, on the one hand, a pictorial portrait (that is, an image-representation), on the other hand, reasoning (that is, a form of speech in which logical constructions predominate ). Non-fictional statements of the author: digressions into philosophical, historical, etc. should be distinguished from reasoning as a component of the image-character. topics, prefaces, etc.

    As already noted, in works of art natural phenomena and objects, animals and insects, creatures created by the writer’s imagination can act and talk like people. In a number literary genres(fable, Science fiction, fairy tale, etc.) such characters are extremely common.

    Despite the variety of types of characters, the image of any of them is associated with the main subject of fiction, which is man. No matter how broadly the subject of knowledge is interpreted in artistic creativity, its center is always human essences endowed with certain characters. "The means of revealing character are various components and details in the work objective world: plot, speech characteristics, portrait, costume, interior, etc." [Introduction to Literary Studies 2004: 201]. In other words, "the image of a character... combines private figurative units", "consists of external and internal characteristics" [Fedorov 2003: 113]. That there is, by drawing a specific literary character, the authors strive to ensure that readers “see” this image and at the same time realize that a specific character “lives” in art world in your actions, words, thoughts and feelings. The essence of a character is revealed through the attitude of other characters towards him, and, most importantly, the writer himself, who thus embodies in the work his concept of personality and a system of moral assessments of human qualities.

    In general, it should be noted that the literary concept of “image” is ambiguous. Scientists liken works of art to the universe, which is formed by combining particles of different levels (from micro-images-details to a holistic image of the world).

    Scientists have most clearly defined the main features of image-characters, the roles of which can be played not only by people, but also by objects, natural phenomena, animals and plants invented by the writers themselves fantastic creatures. Character images have a complex, multi-component structure. In epic and dramatic works, the essence of those depicted by the author literary heroes, first of all, is revealed through the plot, that is, the totality of their actions and actions, relationships with other characters and speech characteristics (including those remarks that contain their assessment of each other). In addition, character images are created using such a visual technique as a portrait, which involves outlining a face, figure, demeanor, clothing, etc. The writer can draw a portrait in sufficient detail or limit himself to only individual details; in any case, such an external characteristic will serve as a kind of key to the character being depicted. Often a significant semantic load is also carried in the work by descriptions of pictures of nature, against which the hero appears, and the world of things surrounding him. Along with this, an important means of depicting a character are the statements of the author himself or the narrator, who acts as a narrator.



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