of sign structure
The article deals with semiotics of images with incomprehensible
semantics. The focus made on the problem of asymmetry of signifying / signified
related to semantics of two opposite sign types of visual representation:
anamorphic images (plural signifying with singular signified) versus «generated» images, like the so-called «landscape rocks» (plural signified with singular
signifying) as well as their functions in different art formations. The paintings
of Russian symbolism, avant-garde, surrealism used to illustrate the thesis. The
motif of rock and its semiotic implications are examined on the base of parasemiotic
ideas of Roger Caillois. Crimea watercolors by M. Voloshin is considered
from the viewpoint of secondary semiosis of «landscape rocks» that it
creates. Arbitrary semantics of visual representations refers to the issue of signifying
as a dynamic model of sign system.
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