Classification of cultural images

There are four main types: parody, imagery, metaphor and abstraction.

1. First, iconicity.

It is an image created by the subject by imitating the form of the object world.

2. Second, make an image.

Under the guidance of the object in the objective (object) world, the subject provides the receiver with an opportunity to trigger emotions and start imagination to complete the image world. The object expands the association of "feeling", and the "image" produced on this basis is the image.

3. Third, metaphor.

It is the creative subject who takes "self" as the body and "world" as the extension of self, and creates a new world according to the subject's mind.

4. Fourth, abstraction.

It is an image in which the creative subject refines and sublimates the object through his own psychological processing, abandons the concrete and replaces it with some pure formal symbols to arouse readers' aesthetic feelings.

What are the main characteristics of artistic image?

A: The characteristics of artistic image mainly include virtuality, sensibility, imagination and emotion.

First, virtuality.

This is the opposite of reality. Once the image is materialized, it enters art, but when it becomes an artistic image, it also enters an unrealistic level.

Second, sensibility.

It refers to the intuition and concreteness that the image can be directly grasped, perceived, experienced and accepted by the subject's senses. The subject can directly perceive the existence of the image without conscious rational reflection.

Third, imagination.

It is the most important feature of aesthetic image, and it is also the internal reason why works of art transcend reality and have virtuality.

Fourth, emotional.

The emotionality of artistic images is formed in the activities of artists to create images. Artistic image always contains some form of emotional factors, which makes the image have strong appeal.

Mainly divided into two categories, natural images and humanistic images. Cultural images include: the common image culture in ancient poetry, the cultural image of China traditional cultural architecture, and the cultural image of songs.