The desire of the first person to understand and understand the universe, its existential questions, the need to embody events and phenomena bring forth mythology, the first belief system. The depictions of mythological-religious paintings from the past to the present form the result of this search. Mythological stories, the allegorical expressions of our ancestors, were coded in symbolic writings with the wish to be verbally and literally transferred to the next generations and to be converted into allegorical images. The mythological, religious, and moral problems seen in the paintings in the West until the 17th century later became human and social allegories. Understanding the allegory of expression, a form of expression in which cultural teachings and ceremonies are different and change symbols that are subject to periodic options such as inheritance, can be used considering the discipline of iconology and iconography. Allegorical expression, which is the whole of the symbols used as a form of expression in myths, fairy tales, fables, is also the language of expression that has been used since the early ages as an indirect image language, even by abstract expressionists.
Keywords: Painting Art, Western Painting Art, Allegory, Symbol, Mythology
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