艺术符号的特点和功能

Characteristics and Function of Artistic Symbols

符号包含能指和所指两个方面,可以区分为标志、图像、象征三种形式。艺术符号多为图像或须还原为图像,其能指与所指的关系最为复杂。就直接所指而言,艺术符号一般属于次语言,不过同时具有语言和超语言层次的内涵,因而能够完整展现人的生存状态和精神家园。

Symbols include the two aspects of signifier and significativeness, and they can be distinguished into the three forms of sign, picture and symbol. More often than not, artistic symbols are pictures or what must be restored to pictures. Their signifier and significativeness relation is most complicated. So far as direct significativeness is concerned, artistic symbols generally belong to the secondary language, but they have the connotations of the language and the superlanguage simultaneously. That results in their capability of demonstrating people's state of existence and spiritual homestead entirely.