Visual metaphors are double-edged swords
Good visual metaphors generate new views of the world that are counterintuitive, for example that surface textures are more like imagination than reality.
Good visual metaphors generate new views of the world that are counterintuitive, for example that surface textures are more like imagination than reality.
What is a visual metaphor in art?
Run-and-tumble butterflies seeking to escape art business birds of prey are visual metaphors. Art final goals are stretching the truth toward misrepresentations of how to live with other people. Sloth is not a metaphorical picture for lazy artists, or poor but an image of cool animals living in very tall trees.
The wisest picture has something yet to learn from cool art works. Odd pictures are as gregarious as termites. Sloth used as metaphor in art for slow painting.
Drawings also become visual metaphors when an artwork is used to represent something like an idea that is not visible.
Mermaid motif, human-animal hybrid, represents aspiration to pursue the highest metaphorical expressions. An aphorism) develops abstract mental activities.
The real world is a cruel place for mermaids because there is no place online for hybrid art. Foxes also have a metaphorical meaning. These half human half beast artists shared the belief that representational art was obsolete and that the new image art needed to be autonomous. This metaphorical hybrid art should stand on its own legs or fish tails, like nature rather than copying the world around it.
