Artistic symbols in many ways act as complimentary narrative tools that elevate and define the message from the artist, which can help to generate efficacious consciousness and mood aggregation in the beholders. The purpose of this study is to deepen the appreciation of the embedded significances of keys as symbolic objects in selected symbolist art by Alex Idoko which represents variously, mystical attributions and significations as understood within different worldviews. Through the application of interpretive discuss approach in relating relevant concepts of symbolism, the study elucidates on the symbolical, mythological, mystical and metaphorical denotations and attributions of chains, padlock and keys in line with Victor Turner’s concept of operational, exegetical and positional meanings. In the end, we observe that the selected work by Idoko subsume deep and dense creative vision projecting deliberate effort in using art as a means of sharing cultural ideas, mystifying aesthetics, propelling curiosity, and mood/emotion intensity.

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创意视野与创意艺术：亚历克斯·伊多科象征主义艺术中钥匙的意义与隐喻

艺术符号在许多方面充当了互补的叙事工具，提升和定义了艺术家的信息，这有助于在旁观者中产生有效的意识和情绪聚合。本研究的目的是加深对亚历克斯·伊多科 (Alex Idoko) 选定的象征主义艺术中作为象征物的钥匙的嵌入意义的欣赏，它代表了不同世界观中所理解的各种神秘属性和意义。通过运用解释性讨论的方法将象征主义的相关概念联系起来，研究根据维克多·特纳的操作意义、解释意义和位置意义的概念，阐明了锁链、挂锁和钥匙的象征、神话、神秘和隐喻的外延和属性。到底，