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Art of Symbols
I was fascinated by ancient civilizations and also cubism. My collection of the Art of Symbols is dedicated to my childhood memories.
Continue reading if you are interested to learn about the symbols.
What is a symbol?
A symbol is usually a solid, recognizable thing — a shape, an animal, a plant, an object, etc. — that stands for something that would be hard to show in a picture or a sculpture or even be expressed in words. It can refer to a force of nature, a fictitious thing or phenomena, for example, an idea, or a belief. A symbol can also stand for someone’s or something’s whole story.
And just to make things complicated symbols can be picked to represent something else, e.g. A implies B.
Formation of a symbol
Some symbols are conventional and some are natural. The cross is a symbol of Christianity, and it is a conventional symbol of suffering; in order for it to become a symbol, people had to adapt or accept the cross as standing for suffering. Other symbols are natural — the Sun as the symbol of life and strength, a river as the symbol of eternal change and flowing, and so forth; in these cases, there was no agreement (convention) as to what would stand for what, for the relation is too obvious — the symbolism is much the same in the tradition of all nations and civilizations.
