The meanings of the word “image” cannot be put into a single formulation, since this concept is material, metaphysical, and semantic.
Image interpretation
This is how various dictionaries describe the essence of the word:
- philosophical reading: the image is the form, essence, ideal of the original representation of objects in the human mind;
- appearance as it is;
- in an artistic reading in an explanatory dictionary, the meaning of the word “image” is understood as a role model or criticism, a very characteristic character; an idea of someone specific by transferring his personality traits to objects, people;
- idea of something;
- icon-painting image - here the meaning of the word "image" means the face of the depicted saint;
- visible, dreaming in the imagination.
Nowadays, to determine the meaning of the word “image” means to delve into the description of the appearance or explanation of the character of someone’s thinking: the female image, the way of his thoughts (behavior).
Image in ancient Slavic culture
With an abstract discussion that there is an image, specificity is not needed, because first of all it is a mental perception. The image of evil and deceit was outlined by our distant ancestors in the form of dragons and all sorts of monsters, the image of the whole Russian people is in epic heroes, each of them was also characterized by individual features, therefore, images.
The lexical meaning of the word “image” - a look that gives an idea of the appearance, character and basic features of an individual’s personality — meets all the canons for transferring this concept to the formation of folk tales. The main purpose of figurative presentation is to facilitate understanding of the topic through the use of symbolic signs. So, God, in a figurative representation, is always male, and the exemplary disciple, “nerd,” is wearing big glasses.
The decoding of the word in the Old Slavic alphabet is subject to the usual rule of dividing the meaning into sub-meanings:
- Oh - like, that, like.
- B - God, the essence.
- R - RA, the sun, the radiance.
- Az is a human being.
In other words, only a person like radiance (bright personality) can achieve the vision of true images.
Where is the Image born?
An image is born in mental perception by transferring feelings, sensations, internal needs to real objects. So, a beautiful young man could be depicted in the form of an angel, and a sick child - in the form of a vicious life of generations. Every person who has the ability to think abstractly has a need to submit to certain images.
Thinking devoid of abstractness is the clearest sign of mental retardation. A person whose consciousness is limited by the actual existence of the current moment is no different from an animal in its mental state.
Image Power
Due to the fact that the metaphysical meaning of the word “image” is a concept that does not require a real shell, its strength is huge, as it is based on an unlimited vacuum void. From the emptiness of this thought process, a certain Form is created, pouring in psychokinetic density, like a vessel of water. Anything the creator wants to fill in the Form is characteristic features, nesting of the negative or positive core (classic characters are not “average” - they are either good or bad).
As Form obtains personality traits, it becomes virtually independent. From the moment when the existing image leaves the void, of which it is no longer a part, it begins to form its own space around itself, to grow into actions, friends, and enemies.
The creation of a person’s own image goes through the same process, but it has an effect on the physical body, which means that it requires constant replenishment in the form of real actions. In other words, creating the appearance of a business person, an individual will have to change his wardrobe for a solid one, buy an expensive car, etc.
Artistic image
At the beginning of any plot lies an idea. As a rule, the idea is embodied in the intention of conveying some kind of action, around which a tangle of events is already growing, many faces and places where the scenes unfold. Each element of this complex system representation has a chance to be embodied in an artistic image. The meaning here is given by an aesthetic presentation: the image of autumn will become a yellowing leaf that has fallen into a pond, and the smell of lavender water that accompanies the heroine may be an accidental encounter.
In other words, a penetrating phenomenon that responds well to perception will necessarily become a symbolic image of a short scene, episode or whole book. Novels and novels are often created, the real purpose of which is to describe one dialogue, which is laid in the deep foundation of the whole plot, or some kind of picture that arose in the author’s brain and required implementation.
Action art image
The main criterion by which an artistic image can be considered ergonomically presented is a halo of understatement with a visible integrity and respect for typicality. Atypical incarnations also take place in the piggy bank of creative research, but, not echoing with real situations, not finding an echo in the human mind, they risk not forming the full meaning of the word “image”.
The action of the heroes can be transferred to another planet or into the bowels of the earth, but if the modulation of events does not distort universal human values and vices, that lying is bad and helping your neighbor is good, the typical orientation of the reader or viewer will not require rethinking.
The understatement, as if by chance not traced elements in the description of the characters, the terrain of the development of events, is the key that enables an outside observer to independently make a search.
Largely due to well-designed characteristic features, classical characters, such as Gogol's Plyushkin or Alice's fox from Pinocchio, for several generations personify images of extreme stinginess and dodgy cunning.