id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yf7rhvygurgdnl7dqj64375qze Viktor F. Petrenko Metaphor as a Basic Mechanism of Art (Painting) 2012 37 .pdf application/pdf 9937 838 64 This article describes research on visual semantics, diff erent forms of metaphor Keywords: visual semantics, sense, tropes, metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, oxymoron, image, mental energy. Each work of art or visual symbol used in the genre of landscape has its own interpretation and is associated with its own meaning (see Petrenko & Korotchenko, 2008). From the perspective of psychology, the words that constitute a metaphorical pair are connotative (semantic) synonyms – for example, in Metaphor and metonymy are used by a number of well-known researchers in semiotics and cultural studies of visual arts like fi lm (Arutyunova, 1979, 1990; Ivanov, 1973, 1981, 1998; Lotman, 1973; Shklovsky, of their diff erent representations – that is, both visual and verbal metaphors are two ways of expressing the same meaning. Pictures 2, 3, and 4 are examples of visual metaphors. Another example of visual metaphor is the painting Th e Last Leaf by ./cache/work_yf7rhvygurgdnl7dqj64375qze.pdf ./txt/work_yf7rhvygurgdnl7dqj64375qze.txt