Semiotic analysis of the door metaphor in sacred to earthly art

Authors : Nazif Gür

Pages : 370-396

Doi:10.48146/odusobiad.1467226

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Publication Date : 2025-03-23

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The door, which functions as an object for entry and exit in architectural structures, is also very flexible and slippery as a metaphor. The door metaphor showed itself in painting, architecture and sculpture as a passageway that brought together the secular and the sacred until Baroque religious art. In the 17th century, with the effort to bring the sacred into the house, the approach to the door was further widened and deepened. With the value and importance that Dutch painting gave to residential phenemology, the doors opening to theology took its place in the painting scene as a look at privacy and public space, and has gained momentum as a means of expression in plastic arts until today. The aim of the study is to examine the works in which the door metaphor is used using the semiotic analysis method and to make a comparative analysis of the meanings attributed to this image by Georg Simmel and Gaston Bachelard. In other words, the semiotic method has been applied to both artistic works containing the door metaphor and the text of Simmel and Bachelard. As a result of the study, some differences were identified between the meanings Simmel attributed to the door metaphor and the meanings of the door metaphor in painting before the 17th century.
Keywords : göstergebilim, kapı, metafor