Communication through visual art during wartime

Abstract

During wartime communication appears to be an especially important and general condition for human activity, the fundamental basis of existence of society, being an essential part of social process. Visual art, as a means of communication, during the wartime is aimed at interaction, emotional response, and facilitates empathy to develop deeper. Analyzing posters created during the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022 allowed us to conclude that the wartime poster bears verbal, iconic, graphical, and color codes. The semantic dominant of the text can be each code separately. Interacting with each other, the codes ensure the integrity and coherence of the semiotic text, strengthen its communicative effect, as combined different coded messages complement and explain each other.

Keywords

• communication
• information
• visual art