%0 Journal Article
%T Metaphor as a basic mechanism of art (painting)
%A Viktor F. Petrenko
%A Evgeniya A. Korotchenko
%J Psychology in Russia : State of Art
%D 2012
%I M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
%X This article describes research on visual semantics, diff erent forms of metaphorused in rhetoric and philology (tropes: metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, oxymoron,and others), and images, which are metaphorical also. The research was carried outusing paintings. The authors state that the function of metaphor is to transformthe sense of the image from a psychological point of view.
%K visual semantics
%K sense
%K tropes
%K metaphor
%K metonymy
%K hyperbole
%K litotes
%K oxymoron
%K image
%K mental energy.
%U http://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/pdf/2012/petrenko.pdf