A Study Of The Solar Symbols In Laurent Grasso’s Works

French contemporary artist Laurent Grasso ’s easel painting series "Studies into the Past" frequently appears the solar symbols of Renaissance paintings.But unlike the figurative paintings with reproduction as the core during the Renaissance,viewers have huge differences in the interpretation experience.Why do artists of both eras use graphic symbols,but the former is unclear,the latter is unobstructed? This thesis is aimed at this problem,taking the symbol of the solar image as the research object.First,using the basic principles of Panofsky’s iconography,analyze the solar symbols in the Renaissance painter Antoine Caron’s work " Dionysius the Areopagite Con verting the Pagan Philosophers ",and interpret the established iconology significance contained.Then,using the semiotic art history method of the new art history theorist Norman Bresson,dismantling the solar symbol in Grasso’s work reveals that this symbol is a carrier of multiple concepts.Through a comparative research,it is found that artists of both eras endow the image symbol with inner meaning,which is an equal symbol.However,the image symbols in Renaissance paintings are designed to complete the literary narrative role,and a picture space corresponding to pictures and words is constructed by semantics based on cultural conventions.Contemporary easel painting image symbols are conceptual,and their meaning is produced in the interweaving of text,author,viewer,and context,and interpretation becomes a personal and generative problem.The author’s creation is based on the research results of this article.Misappropriating and juxtaposing image symbols related to astronomical phenomena and images of current life scenes,emphasizing integration into contemporary concepts,is intended to organize an open interpretation space and explore the value of easel painting in contemporary art creation.