An author, painter, may use allegory to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth, or political or historical situation.but it is easy to apply perfect symbol to express perfect meaning and to add a new information in the art work. The success of allegorical work mainly depends on the viewers or audience’s ability to recognize the identities corresponding symbolic meaning of each of the elements within the artwork. For example, in titien’s allegory of governed by prudence. in this painting three human heads represent the three ages past, present and future. They also represent the age of human ,young, middle and old age. In this painting three animal heads were symbolized three stages of human life. The artist has compared and described between three human head and three animal heads which is a new information of human.( universal principle of art: 100 key concepts for …show more content…
In the late 1980s, A drama was played by English in Malaysia where was used nation of symbol Malaysia tiger dance was used instead of Chinese lion dance, to indicate the possibilities of the construction of hybrid cultural form..allegorical symbol of this drama opened the door to convey political, cultural memory and social activity.( ‘(The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English).
***** In 1928, former soviet union a government plan for economic development over five years. At that time, art has infrequently been used directly for political purpose. Painting were used for advertisement of the five year plan. Allegory was the principle of the socialist realistic artist. Carival Red color was used in allegory to exprese progress of Stalin society.( art of soviet…)
If we look to the past, we can see that over the centuries artists have developed different visual media to convey their concept to send some messages for a better society and stable economic. in visual art using the allegorical symbol is not new to represent ideas, desirable qualities, political and social issues as an important representative tool.The power of the allegorical style subsists in its ability to spread into many different aspects of a contemporary issue using multiple