Symbolism
From Salvador Dali to a traditional Indian home- symbolism is a prevalent phenomenon. Using icons and signs, albeit in an abstract way, to represent other deeper meanings and outside connotations, is what symbolism is all about. It is a practice that is as old as time- existing from the caves of Lascaux, where early man represented hunting through various animal figurines to Dadaism and Pop Art where different objects took attributes. Positioning, colour, ingrained letters, abstract forms etc are generally used to point to some other meaning. The Symbolists believed that, “art should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be accessed by indirect methods”.