Themis - an allegory of justice
Allegory is a means of allegory, artistic expression of ideas or concepts embedded in a specific image. By its nature, allegory is a rhetorical form, since it was originally aimed at conveying the hidden subtext of an expression through indirect descriptions.
The depiction of allegory occurs through the method of abstracting human concepts into personified images and objects. Thus, acquiring the abstract, figurative meaning, the allegorical image is generalized. The ideological concept is contemplated with the help of this image, for example, Themis characterizes justice, the fox characterizes cunning, etc.
Poetic allegory
A poetic allegory is the image of the “prophet” in A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Prophet” (1826), in which the true poet is embedded as a seer, the chosen one of God:
Arise, prophet, and see and listen,
Be fulfilled by my will,
And, bypassing the seas and lands,
Burn the hearts of people with the verb.
The emergence and development of allegory
The allegory, which arose on the basis of mythology, was widespread in folk art. Followers of Stoicism considered Homer the founder of allegory, Christian theologians considered the Bible. In ancient centuries, the allegorical tradition gained a significant foothold in the imagery-rich art of the East, Rome, and also in Greece under the influence of oriental ideas.
Allegory manifested itself most of all in the art of the Middle Ages from the end of the 13th century, when its rational basis was combined with symbol. The German art critic I. I. Winkelmann established the concept of “allegorical form” as a condition contributing to the creation of an ideal work of art. The allegory is directly related to the scientist’s aesthetic concept of “beautiful art,” based, in his words, not on rational “rules,” but on contemplation—“feelings taught by the mind.” The medieval allegorical tradition was continued by representatives of the art of Baroque and Classicism.
During the period of romanticism (XVIII-XIX centuries), allegory was combined with symbol, as a result of which the “allegory of the infinite” appeared - an allegorical representation formed on the basis of the concept of “conscious mysticism”, characteristic of the representatives of German romanticism F. Schlegel, F. Baader.
In the twentieth century, rationalism lost its leading position due to sophisticated psychologism and the deep artistic meaning of modern works, but allegory remained significant in literary genres that are allegorical moral stories: fables, parables, medieval morality plays; in the genre of science fiction, etc. Real geniuses in the use of allegory were Russian writers I. A. Krylov and M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, famous for their fables.
Since the twentieth century, the artistic device of allegory has been especially often used to express the hidden ideology of works of ironic or satirical literary genres, such as George Orwell’s satirical story-parable “Animal Farm” (1945).
The word allegory comes from Greek allegoria, which means allegory.
Allowing you to express an abstract idea through an image. Allegories in narrative art appeared long before literature in its modern sense. In all religions and beliefs, it was customary to personify the forces of nature. Each element had its own embodiment - a deity. The Iliad, the Odyssey, the epic of Keret, Gilgamesh, and others are thoroughly allegorical. Allegories added expressiveness and clarity to the narrative.
Allegory in literature at an early stage can be seen in the example of the Gospel. The disciples of Christ are uneducated people, fishermen and artisans, far from abstract ideas. To convey to them the essence of the teaching, Christ uses the form of a parable, accessible, understandable images: a shepherd, a sheep, a sower.
In ancient Greece, art in all its forms flourished much earlier and was primarily the prerogative of educated people. Here the allegorical presentation of information acquires artistry. What allegory is in the literature of the ancient period can be seen in the example of Aesop's fables. Using comparisons of people with animals, the fabulist generalizes the vice of a particular character to a whole category of those like him and at the same time ridicules the prototype, belittling him to the level of an animal. And at the same time, it slightly masks a personal attack, thus avoiding open conflict.
Middle Ages. Europe lives under the unbearable oppression of the Inquisition; it is dangerous to express thoughts openly. Here the task is no longer to convey the idea in a visual form, on the contrary, to disguise it, to make it accessible only to the initiated. for writers it becomes the only possible form of expression of ideas. The allegories of the Middle Ages are gloomy, filled with fear, a feeling of hopelessness and hopelessness of existence. What allegory is in medieval literature can be seen in Dante's poem The Divine Comedy.
The thaw begins in the Renaissance, closer to modern times. Its echoes are clearly visible in the example of the most famous allegorical poem in world culture - Goethe's Faust. From the darkness of scholasticism, from the tossing of a hobbled spirit, from the feeling of his own powerlessness, the hero comes to the realization of the need for light, freedom and happiness for everyone. The most revealing is “Classical Walpurgis Night”: in this chapter one can read the longing for a free and natural existence in the most common symbolic embodiment - ancient classicism.
What allegory is in the literature of the East is best seen in Chinese and Japanese examples: if ancient Indian texts are closer in spirit to Asia Minor and ancient ones (imagery and clarity), then in neighboring cultures poetic allegories come first. Here it is customary to poeticize everything: everyday life, dullness - thanks to condensed images.
Soviet Union. The country is dominated by strict nomenklatura pressure; one can openly only glorify the system and throw mud at ideological enemies. Writers who do not fall into the ideological trend switch to Aesopian language. That is, again from fiction - “The Master and Margarita”, prose by Pasternak and Platonov. The strongest allegorical solution is the finale of the poem “Moscow-Petushki” by V. Erofeev: four embodied symbols of the infernal regime plunge an awl into the hero’s very throat.
The postmodern era has arrived. And again allegory is held in high esteem. Examples from literature are the works of Pelevin and Sorokin. For some time, the pendulum swung back: it is not the disguise of the idea that is important, but the expressiveness of the presentation.
The bridge between the Soviet era and the present was the works of A. and B. Strugatsky. Science fiction writers tend to foresee the future. “It’s Hard to Be a God” and “Inhabited Island,” written a long time ago, are the brightest allegory of today’s Russia.
allegory
and. Greek allegory, heterodoxy, foreign language, circumlocution, circumlocution, prototype; speech, picture, statue in a figurative sense; parable; a pictorial, sensual image of a thought. The entire material, sensory world is nothing more than an allegory, according to the correspondence, of the spiritual world. Allegorical, allegorical, allegorical, figurative, roundabout, circumstantial; allegorist m. allegorist.
Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov
allegory
(ale), allegories, w. (Greek allegoria).
Allegory is a visual, pictorial expression of abstract concepts through a concrete image (lit.). This poem is full of allegories.
only units Allegorical meaning, allegorical meaning. Every fable contains some kind of... allegory.
only plural Vague, incomprehensible speech, absurdity (colloquial). He concocted such allegories and equivocations that, it seemed, a century would not have made any sense. Gogol. Don’t give me allegories, but speak straight.
Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I.Ozhegov, N.Yu.Shvedova.
allegory
And, well. (book). Allegory, expression of something. abstract, some. thoughts, ideas in a specific image. Speak in allegories (vaguely, with obscure allusions to something). || adj. allegorical, -aya, -oe. ALLEGRO (special).
adv. About the tempo of musical performance: fast, lively.
uncl., cf. A piece of music or part of it at that tempo.
New explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.
allegory
and. A form of allegory that consists in expressing an abstract concept through a concrete image.
Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998
allegory
ALLEGORY (Greek allegoria - allegory) depiction of an abstract idea (concept) through an image. The meaning of an allegory, in contrast to a polysemantic symbol, is unambiguous and separated from the image; the connection between meaning and image is established by similarity (lion strength, power or royalty). As a trope, allegory is used in fables, parables, and morality tales; in the visual arts it is expressed by certain attributes (justice - a woman with scales). Most characteristic of medieval art, Renaissance, mannerism, baroque, classicism.
Allegory
(Greek allēgoría ≈ allegory), a conventional representation in art of abstract ideas that are not assimilated into the artistic image, but retain their independence and remain external to it. The connection between image and meaning is established in A. by analogy (for example, a lion as the personification of strength, etc.). In contrast to the polysemy of a symbol, the meaning of a symbol is characterized by an unambiguous, constant definiteness and is revealed not directly in the artistic image, but only through the interpretation of explicit or hidden hints and indications contained in the image, that is, by subsuming the image under any concept (religious dogmas, moral , philosophical, scientific ideas, etc.). Since in an artistic image the universal and the particular are inseparably intertwined with each other, A. cannot exhaust the content of the image, even being an essential and necessary component of it.
The term "A." first found in treatises on oratory by Pseudo-Longinus and Cicero. Medieval aesthetics saw in art one of the four meanings that a work of art has: allegorical meaning, along with grammatical (literal), moral, and anagogical (educational). As a specific form of artistic image, A. was examined in detail in German aesthetics of the 18th and early 19th centuries. (Winckelmann, Goethe, Schelling, Hegel, Solger, Schopenhauer, etc.).
In literature, many allegorical images are taken from mythology and folklore. A fable, a morality play, a parable, as well as many works of medieval eastern poetry are based on A.; It is also found in other genres (“Three Keys” by A. S. Pushkin, fairy tales by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin). In the middle of the 19th century. the concept of A. is narrowed to artistic technique. See Trope.
In the visual arts, art (figures with permanent attributes, figured groups and compositions personifying certain concepts) constitutes a special genre, the features of which are already noticeable in ancient mythological images. A. virtues, vices, etc., common in the Middle Ages, are filled with humanistic content in the Renaissance. Artwork becomes especially complex and sophisticated in the art of Mannerism, Baroque, and Rococo. Classicism and academicism considered art as part of the “high” historical genre. In modern art, symbolism gives way to more figuratively and psychologically developed symbolic images (see Symbol).
Lit.: Losev A.F., Shestakov V.P., History of aesthetic categories, [M.], 1965, p. 237 ≈ 57; Sgrensen V. A., Symbol und Symbolismus in den asthetischen Theorien des XVIII. Jahrhunderts und der deutschen Romantik, Kbh., 1963.
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Allegory (group)
"Allegory"- Russian folk-rock band from Minusinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). Founded on February 16, 2003.
The Allegory group plays acoustic and electroacoustic music in the folk rock style. Instruments: kalyuka, zhaleika, recorder, hobrach, didgeridoo, conga, bongo, djembe, tambourine, acoustic guitar, drum set, electric guitar, bass guitar. The group was organized by a group of people interested in the history and life of the ancient Slavs, who had previously taken a direct part in organizing many role-playing games of historical modeling dedicated to the pre-Christian era, as a result of which the musical style of the group and the direction of its further creative activity were chosen. Over time, the group's style has transformed into a fusion of ethnic music from different cultures and modern styles.
Allegory (disambiguation)
Allegory:
- Allegory is a conventional depiction of abstract ideas through a specific artistic image or dialogue.
- Allegory is a Russian folk rock band from Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk region.
Allegory
Allegory(from - allegory) - artistic representation of ideas (concepts) through a specific artistic image or dialogue.
Allegory is used as a trope in poetry, parables, and morality. It arose on the basis of mythology, was reflected in folklore and was developed in the fine arts. The main way to depict an allegory is to generalize human concepts; representations are revealed in the images and behavior of animals, plants, mythological and fairy-tale characters, and inanimate objects that receive figurative meaning.
Example: justice - Themis.
Allegory is the artistic isolation of concepts using specific representations. Religion, love, soul, justice, discord, glory, war, peace, spring, summer, autumn, winter, death, etc. are depicted and presented as living beings. The qualities and appearance attached to these living beings are borrowed from the actions and consequences of what corresponds to the isolation contained in these concepts; for example, the isolation of battle and war is indicated by means of military weapons, seasons - by means of their corresponding flowers, fruits or activities, impartiality - by means of scales and a blindfold, death - by means of a clepsydra and a scythe.
Obviously, allegory lacks the full plastic brightness and completeness of artistic creations, in which the concept and image completely coincide with each other and are produced inseparably by creative imagination, as if fused by nature. The allegory oscillates between a concept derived from reflection and its cunningly invented individual shell and, as a result of this half-heartedness, remains cold.
Allegory, corresponding to the rich imagery of the way of representing the Eastern peoples, occupies a prominent place in the art of the East. On the contrary, it is alien to the Greeks, given the wonderful ideality of their gods, understood and imagined in the form of living personalities. Allegory appears here only in Alexandrian times, when the natural formation of myths ceased and the influence of Eastern ideas became noticeable. Its dominance is more noticeable in Rome. But it dominated most of all the poetry and art of the Middle Ages from the end of the 13th century, at a time of ferment when the naive life of fantasy and the results of scholastic thinking mutually touch and, as far as possible, try to penetrate each other. So - with most troubadours, with Wolfram von Eschenbach, with Dante. Feuerdank, a 16th-century Greek poem describing the life of Emperor Maximilian, may serve as an example of allegorical-epic poetry.
Allegory has a special use in animal epic. It is very natural that different arts have significantly different relationships to allegory. It is most difficult for modern sculpture to avoid. Always doomed to depict a personality, it is often forced to give as allegorical isolation what Greek sculpture could give in the form of an individual and complete image of the life of a god.
For example, John Bunyan’s novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress to the Heavenly Land” and Vladimir Vysotsky’s song “Truth and Lies” are written in the form of an allegory.
Examples of the use of the word allegory in literature.
In the space between them is an engraved portrait of Richard Cobden, enlarged photographs of Martineau, Huxley and George Eliot, autotypes allegories J.
With all the traditional obligatory theological orientation of auto as a specific genre allegories Calderon is much deeper and more philosophical than his predecessors, and the characters depicted in them are much more humane.
An attempt to revive auto as a special genre of dramatic allegories- of course, without a religious basis - built on modern content, were undertaken by such major writers of our time as Rafael Alberti and Miguel Hernandez.
However, unlike the poets of the Middle Ages allegory for Herbert, not a way of seeing the world, but a poetic device that he needed to create the necessary effect in the spirit of Baroque art.
Now she was busy allegory John Bunyan and, forgetting about everything else, talked about her incessantly.
And when the poet writes about white dew, which will become frost by morning, this is also about the transience of life, for since ancient times, human life has been compared to a dew melting from a ray of sun, and white frost - allegory gray hair.
Serpent and Woman, is allegory the enmity between the sin associated with the world's laws, or the serpent, and the obedience of faith embodied in the church of the Lord, which is the woman.
But just now he was attached to the tavern for a long time, breaking such allegories and remarks that, it seems, a century would not have achieved any sense.
The offer received from the Berlin intendant Iffland to write an apotheosis for the return of the Prussian king seemed so honorable and tempting to him that he temporarily abandoned all other poetic ideas in order to compose his own bizarrely meaningful, deeply personal philosophical poem, unlike any other apotheosis in the world. allegory.
It is evidenced by those barely noticeable magical touches with which the artist transforms a wandering plot into a cabalistic allegory.
Are you really of the opinion that Homer, when he wrote the Iliad and Odyssey, was thinking about those allegories, which were attributed to him by Plutarch, Heraclides Pontius, Eustathius, Cornutus and which Poliziano subsequently stole from them?
If you want, let's try to enrich this unsuccessful allegory another example.
Makovsky equally passionately painted a landscape or a genre scene, a portrait of a scientist or a kept woman of the nouveau riche, he admired the patterns of ancient life, painted a Bacchic panel in the spirit of Tiepolo, the heads of beauties, allegories and decorations, agreed to paint screens for bedrooms, inventing decorations for the palanquin of an infirm aristocrat - and he did all this not somehow, not by the way, but with the same brilliance!
However, this allegory is far from perfect, and through it I was just going to demonstrate how individual streams and channels of heresies and all kinds of renewal movements, when the river no longer holds them in itself, multiply immensely and multiply and intertwine many times.
a conventional form of utterance, in which a visual image means something “other” than he himself is, its content remains external to him, and it is unambiguously assigned to him by cultural tradition. The concept of A. is close to the concept of a symbol; the boundary between them in specific cases can be controversial. The difference is that the symbol is more polysemantic and organic, while the meaning of A. exists in the form of a kind of rational formula, which can be “embedded” in the image and then extracted from the image in the act of decoding. This is also related to the fact that a symbol is often spoken of in relation to a simple image and motif, and about A. - in relation to a chain of images united in a plot: for example, if a journey is a symbol of a spiritual “path”, then the journey of the hero of the novel by J. Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (“The pilgrims progress”, pt. 1-2, 1678-84; in Russian translation “The Pilgrim’s Progress”, 1878), which goes through the “fair of Vanity”, “Hill of Perplexity” in “Valley of Humiliation” to “Heavenly City” - indisputable A.
The role of A. in the history of philosophy is associated with numerous. attempts, starting from the Hellenistic era, to interpret ancient revered texts as a sequence of allegories (among the Stoics - Homer, Philo of Alexandria and some Christian theologians - the Bible); on Wed. centuries, the world of nature is interpreted allegorically as a moral lesson, as arranged by God for man. a visual aid, a materialized fable with a moral.
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ALLEGORY
allegory), a conventional form of utterance in which a visual image means something “other” than it itself; its content remains external to it, being unambiguously assigned to it by cultural tradition or the author’s will. The concept of A. is close to the concept of a symbol, however, unlike A., a symbol is characterized by greater polysemy and a more organic unity of image and content, while the meaning of A. exists in the form of a kind of rational formula independent of the image, which can be “embedded” in the image and then, in the act of deciphering, extract from it. E.g. blindfold female figure and the scales in her hands are in the European tradition of A. justice; it is important that the carriers of meaning (“justice does not look at faces and gives everyone their due measure”) are precisely the attributes of the figure, and not its own integral appearance, which would be characteristic of a symbol. Therefore, they often talk about A. in relation to a chain of images united into a plot or into another “collapsible” unity that can be divided; for example, if travel is a frequent symbol of the spiritual “path,” then the journey of the hero of the religious and moralistic novel by J. Bunyan “The Pilgrims Progress” (“The Pilgrims Progress”, 167884, in Russian translation “Pilgrim’s Progress”, 1878), who goes through “ Vanity Fair", "Hill of Difficulty" and "Valley of Humiliation" to the "Heavenly City" - indisputable A.
A. in the forms of personification, parable and fable is characteristic of archaic verbal art as an expression of pre-philosophical “wisdom” in its everyday, priestly, oracular, prophetic and poetic variants. Although myth is different from A., on the periphery it systematically turns into it. Greek philosophy is born in a sharp rejection of the wisdom of myth and the wisdom of poets (cf. attacks against Homer, Hesiod and mythology as such from Xenophanes and Heraclitus to Plato); since, however, the mythological plots and poems of Homer occupied too important a place in all Greek life, and their prestige could only be shaken, but not destroyed, the only way out was an allegorical interpretation, the so-called. allegoresis, which brought to myth and poetry the meaning that a philosophically oriented interpreter needed. Already for Theagenes of Rhegium at the end of the 6th century. before i. e. Homer is the victim of a sad misunderstanding: the quarrels and battles of the gods he describes are frivolous if taken literally, but everything falls into place if
encrypt in them the teaching of Ionian natural philosophy about the struggle of the elements (Hera - A. air, Hephaestus - A. fire, Apollo - A. sun, etc., see Porph. Quaest. Homer. I, 241). For Metrodorus of Lampsacus at the end of the 5th century. BC e. Homer's plots are an allegorical fixation of several meanings at once: on the natural philosophical plane, Achilles is the sun, Hector is the moon, Helen is the earth, Paris is the air, Agamemnon is the ether; in terms of the “microcosm” of the human body, Demeter is the liver, Dionysus is the spleen, Apollo is bile, etc. At the same time, Anaxagoras, using the same techniques, extracted from Homer’s poem the ethical doctrine “of virtue and justice” (Diog. L. II, 11); this line was continued by Antisthenes, the Cynics and Stoics, who interpreted the images of myth and epic as the philosophical ideal of victory over passions. The image of Hercules, who was chosen by Prodicus as the hero of the moralistic A. (the motif of “Hercules at the Crossroads” - the theme of the choice between Pleasure and Virtue), underwent a particularly energetic rethinking. The search for A. as the “true” meaning of the image could be served by a more or less arbitrary etymology aimed at clarifying the “true” meaning of the name; this procedure (partly parodying the running techniques of the sophists) is carried out in Plato’s “Cratylus” (for example, 407AB: since “Athena embodies the mind and thought itself,” her name is interpreted as “god-thought” or “moral-thought”). The taste for A. spreads everywhere; Although the Epicureans in principle rejected the allegorical interpretation of myths, this did not prevent Lucretius from explaining the torment of sinners in Hades as A. psychological states.
The same approach to traditional subjects and authoritative texts has been widely applied to the Bible since the time of Philo of Alexandria. Philo was followed by Christian thinkers - Origen, exegetes of the Alexandrian school, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose of Milan and many others. Only through A. could faith in Revelation and the skills of Platonic speculation be combined into a single system. A. played an important role in Christian exegesis: the doctrine of the Old and New Testaments as two hierarchically unequal stages of Revelation suggested t. typology - a look at Old Testament events as A. New Testament ones, their allegorical anticipation (“transformation”). In the medieval West, a doctrine was formed according to which the biblical text has four meanings: literal or historical (for example, the exodus from Egypt), typological (indication of the redemption of people by Christ), moral (exhortation to leave all carnal things) and anagogical, i.e. mystical-eschatological (hinting at the arrival in the bliss of the future life). The Renaissance maintains the cult of A., connecting it with attempts to see behind the diversity of religions a single meaning, accessible only to initiates: among humanists, who very widely use the names of pagan gods and goddesses such as A. Christ and the Virgin Mary, these and other traditional Christian images can, in turn, interpreted as A., hinting at this meaning (Mutianus Rufus, Der Briefwechsel, Kassel, 1885, S. 28). Renaissance philosophers love to refer to the ancient mysteries (cf. Wind E., Pagan mysteries in the Renaissance, L, 1968) and strive, as Ficino says, “to cover the divine mysteries everywhere with a veil of allegory” (In Parm., prooem.). Baroque culture gives A. the specific character of an emblem (SchoneA., Emblematik und Drama im Zeitalter des Barock, Miinchen, 1964), emphasizing the mysteriousness of A., which was already important for the Renaissance. For the Enlightenment, the didactic clarity and interpretation of A., transformed into a kind of visual aid (philosophical Voltaire's tales, Lessing's fables, etc.) - in principle, as it was among the ancient Cynics and repeated in the 20th century. in the work and aesthetics of Brecht (allegorization of life as its exposure, demystification, reduction to the simplest processes).
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It arose on the basis of mythology, was reflected in folklore and was developed in the fine arts. The main way to depict an allegory is to generalize human concepts; representations are revealed in the images and behavior of animals, plants, mythological and fairy-tale characters, inanimate objects that acquire figurative meaning.
Obviously, allegory lacks the full plastic brightness and completeness of artistic creations, in which the concept and image completely coincide with each other and are produced inseparably by creative imagination, as if fused by nature. The allegory oscillates between a concept derived from reflection and its cunningly invented individual shell and, as a result of this half-heartedness, remains cold.
Allegory, corresponding to the rich imagery of the way of representing the Eastern peoples, occupies a prominent place in the art of the East. On the contrary, it is alien to the Greeks, given the wonderful ideality of their gods, understood and imagined in the form of living personalities. Allegory appears here only in Alexandrian times, when the natural formation of myths ceased and the influence of Eastern ideas became noticeable. Its dominance is more noticeable in Rome. But it dominated most of all the poetry and art of the Middle Ages from the end of the 13th century, at a time of ferment when the naive life of fantasy and the results of scholastic thinking mutually touch and, as far as possible, try to penetrate each other. So - with most troubadours, with Wolfram von Eschenbach, with Dante. "Feuerdank", a 16th-century Greek poem that describes the life of Emperor Maximilian, may serve as an example of allegorical-epic poetry.
Allegory has a special use in animal epic. It is very natural that different arts have significantly different relationships to allegory. It is most difficult for modern sculpture to avoid. Always doomed to depict a personality, it is often forced to give as allegorical isolation what Greek sculpture could give in the form of an individual and complete image of the life of a god.
For example, John Bunyan’s novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress to the Heavenly Land” and Vladimir Vysotsky’s song “Truth and Lies” are written in the form of an allegory.
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