In the conventional sense, an artistic image is a sensual expression of an idea. This term defines reality, the reflection of which is in the form of a specific life phenomenon. An artistic image is born in the imagination of a person engaged in art. The sensual expression of any idea is the result of hard work, creative fantasies and thinking based only on one’s life experience. The artist creates a certain image, which is the imprint in his mind of a real object, and embodies everything in a work of art. Pictures, books or movies reflect their own vision of an idea by its creator.
An artistic image can be born only when the author knows how to operate with his impressions, which will form the basis of his work.
The psychological process of sensual expression of an idea consists in imagining the final result of labor even before the beginning of the creative process. Operating with fictional images helps even in the absence of the necessary completeness of knowledge to realize your dream in the created work.
The artistic image created by a creative person is characterized by sincerity and reality. A characteristic feature of art is craftsmanship. It is it that allows us to say something new, and this is possible only through experience. Creation must go through the feelings of the author and be suffered by him.
The artistic image in each field of art has its own structure. It is determined by the criteria of the spiritual principle expressed in the work, as well as by the specifics of the material used to create the creation. Thus, the artistic image in music is intonational, in architecture - static, in painting - graphic, and in the literary genre - dynamic. In one form of art, it is embodied in the image of a person, in another - of nature, in the third - of an object, in the fourth it acts as a combination of compounds of human action and their environment.
The artistic representation of reality lies in the unity of the rational and emotional aspects. The ancient Indians believed that art owes its birth to those feelings that a person could not keep within himself. However, not every image can be attributed to the artistic category. Sensual expressions should carry a special aesthetic purpose. They reflect the beauty of the surrounding nature and the animal world, capture the perfection of man and his life. The artistic image should testify to the beautiful and affirm the harmony of the world.
In the genre of art, sensual incarnations are a symbol of creativity. Artistic images act as a universal category of understanding life, and also contribute to its comprehension. They have properties characteristic only of them. These include:
- typicality arising in connection with a close relationship with life;
- liveliness or organicity;
- holistic orientation;
- understatement.
The building materials of the image are as follows: the personality of the artist himself and the realities of the world around him. The sensual expression of reality combines subjective and objective principles. It consists of reality, which is reworked by the artist’s creative thought, reflecting his attitude to what is depicted.