Transnarrative Analysis of "The Cameleer and the drunken Camel" Painting of Kalila and Dimna with a Semiotics approach

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1 , Department of Islamic Art, Faculty of Art and Architecture, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of French Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Painting, Faculty of Art and Architecture, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This article examines and analyzes how to transfer the narrative from verbal text to visual text. The verbal text is a narration of Kalila and Dimna, which was transformed into a visual text by the painters of the Jalayirid’s school, whom we call visual storytellers. This narrative is called "The Cameleer Man (Sarban) and the Drunken Camel". The analysis of this narrative is a Trans-narrative analysis that takes place with a semiotic approach. Researches show that in the process of translation from verbal text to visual text, the visual Enunciator pays attention to the signs and in the position of an author independent from the verbal author of the work, using creative techniques related to visual arts. Especially, the imaginary world of Persian Painting creates a buffer space between the world of fantasy and the world of reality. In the diachronic process, the visual Enunciator or painters have shown that they have accepted full effects of hyper-texts or verbal hyper-narratives in visual hypo-text or visual hypo-narrative. The semantic square process shows that the actor is drawn from the direction of life to the direction of non-life in a tense and sensory-perceptual atmosphere and then dies. The paintings have been received from British, Paris, and Istanbul libraries and the research method is descriptive and analytical.

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Visual Art Studies
Volume 1, Issue 2
February 2024
Pages 177-198

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