Transmedia principles in impressionism spanning painting, music and literature
This article explores transmedia principles in impressionism spanning painting, music and literature. The introduction focuses on concepts with the suffix ism in scholarly communication (especially in literary theory and the general theory of art) Applying the concept of intermediality, it is possible to explore the intersection of all three above listed arts and to identify, name and systematize stable principles which universally characterize impressionism. Theoreticians of intermediality (I. Rajewsky, W. Wolf) characterize these principles as non media specific and migrating, indicating that a particular aesthetic may be applied in different arts. The principles identified in this paper (hic et nunc, transposition, three dimensionality and imagination, the two stage reception of impressionist works, equivalent principles in techniques for expressing colour and light, similar genres and themes, and a shared goal the optical integrity of the world) indicate that impressionism takes a unified noetic approach to reality, and thus these principles can be characterized as transmedia principles. Paradoxically, thanks to these principles, we are aware of the specificity of each of the arts as a distinctive system of signs. Parallel or equivalent structures can thus occur in different arts, accentuating either the visual aspect (painting) the auditive aspect (music) or a combination of both aspects (literature)
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