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Georgij Yu Somov

Connotations in semiotic systems of visual art (through the example of works by M. A. Vrubel)

In art connotations spread denotative structures. Correspondingly, the role of connotations in visual artworks should be as important as it is in systems of verbal information. Hence, developed connotative structures are found in visual artwork. Connotations of visual artworks are based on fundamental codes and develop their basic text. Representamens of denotations and connotations are interrelated and organized in system-structural formations of signals. Text of a visual artwork directs the actualization of connotations on the basis of its principal meanings and communicative structure. Connotations form semantic fields corresponding to basic meanings and text of artworks. These connotations, hidden from direct perception, are discussed with respect to the works of Vrubel.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2006, 02/2006
Pages: 147 - 212

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