CONTRADICTION OF NATURE AND CULTURE IN MINIATURE “ZAL AND SIMURGH”

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AZAM KASIRI A.; RAHNAVARD ZAHRA; DIBAJ S.M.

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Journal: HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA Year:2009 | Volume:- | Issue:37 Page(s): 103-110

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CONTRADICTION OF NATURE AND CULTURE IN MINIATURE “ZAL AND SIMURGH”

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AZAM KASIRI A. | RAHNAVARD ZAHRA | DIBAJ S.M. | Issue Writer Certificate

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CULTURAL SIGNSQ2

ZAL AND SIMURGHQ3

SEMIOTIC ANALYSISQ3

SHAHNAMEH OF SHAHTAHMASPQ3

Abstract

This article is a SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS on a miniature painting of “Shahnameh Tahmasbi”- “Zal is sighted by a Caravan” or “Zal and Simurgh” painted by Khaje Abdul-Aziz in Tbriz style of Safavi period. At first a primary definition of semiotics, taken as an analytical method, has the potentiality to carry out interpreting deferent textual subjects. A kind of method of structuralism on cultural semiotics introduced by ”Yuri Lotman” in Moscow-Tartu school of semiotical studies, been taken as assistance to fulfill above purpose, which is based on studying paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations as well as denotations and connotations of the picture signs leading to a full explication of the painting. Levi Strauss considers semiotics to study different ways of transcending nature to the cultural situation from the classic period, and the importance of the dual contradictions in art interpretation has been focoused on. The super-model of Lotman could be divided into three models: First, nature as natural environment of human life, as an opposite for culture or super natural aspect of human life. The second, nature as 'Caos' or disarrangement, as an opposite to culture as 'Kosmos' or arrangement And the third, nature as an object of savagery, in opposition with culture as self-condition, or in another word, self-other opposition.The result of this investigation framed within the coordinative relationship of nature and culture explains two generally different spaces of realism and mysticism. The corresponding links of pictorial and verbal signs help to understand how the temporal syntax of narration transforms to a kind of spatial syntax. Thus, the linguistic signs and rhetorical devices of poem, become translated to different states of simple pictorial signs while there would be a decrease of amount in literature an increasing happen in favor of pictorial text. ''Zal'' as ''Actant'' of the narration, connects the natural aspect of the picture which entails in this case, supernatural as well as mythical to the cultural aspect that seems realistic, and make a balance in the contradiction of these natural and cultural aspects, and connects the imagination atmosphere to the terrestrial space. The comparison between verbal and visual signs shows that the painter has a symbolic and reductional approach toward the text through translating the metaphors and poetical descriptions into conditional and clear color signs, using icons, symbols, and indexes for suggesting the mystical and epical space of the story, and translates the precious poems of shahnameh in a conventional but innovative way. In order to contemplate the pictorial system of the painting, signs of nature system, including elements of natural environment and signs of culture system, containing individuals and characters here, have to be considerated. The main speciality of this picture is the domination of natural space upon cultural one. At the final, there be explored how the image of “Zal” the main hero and Actant of the narration, reflects the cohensive unification of contradictory aspects of the nature and culture.

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AZAM KASIRI, A., RAHNAVARD, ZAHRA, & DIBAJ, S.M.. (2009). CONTRADICTION OF NATURE AND CULTURE IN MINIATURE “ZAL AND SIMURGH”. HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA, -(37), 103-110. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/5868/en

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AZAM KASIRI A., RAHNAVARD ZAHRA, DIBAJ S.M.. CONTRADICTION OF NATURE AND CULTURE IN MINIATURE “ZAL AND SIMURGH”. HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA[Internet]. 2009;-(37):103-110. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/5868/en

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A. AZAM KASIRI, ZAHRA RAHNAVARD, and S.M. DIBAJ, “CONTRADICTION OF NATURE AND CULTURE IN MINIATURE “ZAL AND SIMURGH”,” HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA, vol. -, no. 37, pp. 103–110, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/5868/en

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