Zarko Bozinov - Abstract Artist
Minstrel Mirror Casts
- acrylic on masonite
- 3 paintings joined/ 92x61cm each
- 2000
- $1250
SYNECDOCHE: One of the four major tropes, synecdoche is the poetic use of a part to signify the whole and, somewhat less frequently, the use of a whole to signify a part. Even in common speech we encounter phrases like "all hands on deck" or "there were forty head grazing in the pasture." In art, far from being a mere visual accident, the device is chiefly used for dramatic effect or for controlling the viewer's degree of awareness of details, as in the barrels of guns anonymously poking in from the right side of one of Goya's Disasters of War prints. (This practice has become something of a cliche in mystery and suspense movies, where directors almost invariably delay the audience's awareness by showing only the villain's feet or gloved hands.) In later nineteenth-century art, synecdoche serves to signify the much less dramatic Impressionist slice-of-life.
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