Artistic image

So, "Artistic image is a specific and at the same time a generalized picture of human life, created with the help of fiction and having aesthetic meaning" (L. I. Timofeev).

Considered the element or part of the artistic integer, as a rule, such a fragment, which seems to have an independent life and content (for example, character in literature, symbolic images, like "Sail" at M. Yu. Lermontov).

The artistic image becomes artistic not because it is written off from nature and is similar to a real object or phenomenon, but because with the help of author's fantasy converts reality. The artistic image is not only and not so much copies reality as it seeks to transfer the most important and significant. So, one of the heroes of the novel of Dostoevsky "Teenager" said that photographs would very rarely give the correct idea of \u200b\u200ba person, because not always the human face expresses the main features of character. Therefore, for example, Napoleon, photographed at a certain point, could seem stupid. The artist must find the main thing that is characteristic. In the novel L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" ATTERTANT VRONSky and artist Mikhailov drew the portrait of Anna. It seems that Vronsky knows the best, more and deeper understands her. But the portrait of Mikhailov was distinguished not only by similarity, but also the special beauty that only Mikhailov was able to detect and did not notice the Vronsky. "We had to know and love her, as I loved to find this most cute her mental expression," I thought Vronsky, although he only found out this portrait "This is the most cute her mental expression."

At various stages of the development of mankind, the artistic image takes various forms.