Painterly Interpretation Of The Masterpiece "My Name Is Red"

Painting art and literature art since ancient times there are similarities. C hina has a "poems have painting, painting in poetry", the western aesthetes lessing’s "Laocoon" also focuses on the relation and distinction between art a nd text. Pamuk in "my name is red", the method of the performance of the art of painting and literature and art performance method fuses in together, each other through the miniature of islamic painting techniques and the use of western perspective techniq ue and its contrast, not only shows the turks at that time, but also implies the eastern and western cultural differences and conflicts. O n the one hand, as a carrier of the spirit of islamic culture symbol, miniature this ancient painting art is going to decline gradually, also symbolically announced a 16 th century Ottoman fall. O n behalf of the western culture, on the other hand, the invasion of the western perspective, give the people of the empire has brought the huge impact, also gradually changing people’s way of life. In the two cultures in the process of "mixed", people anxiously hard choices, seek the balance between the two cultures.Second, "my name is red" the unique characteristics and the aesthetic implication of "painting", the writer also show the painting color into the works, make the novel full of brilliant color, let the color has the symbolic significance, thus greatly rich aesthetic connotation of the novel. The color of the paper is full of symbolism, one of the most prominent is the use of red. Red in almost every chapter has described in the paper. Red is the symbol of life and personal happiness, not only is the symbol of free love, human flesh, and death. And "red" and "green" color behind the conflict, the hero, is a novel identification a vivid metaphor.In the aspect of intertextuality, the author will famous miniature paintings inserted into the novel text, directly involved in the literary narrative of painting art painting text and produced a variety of intertextuality in the no vel text effect. Each chapter is a small text, dialogue between sections and chapters, sections and miniature painting also refers to each other, mutual dialogue, a lot of new text, forming a wonderful narrative labyrinth.So can say "my name is red" is pamuk use language to draw a picture of a miniature picture scroll of epic.