Audio description in the face of emotions presented on the canvas. Contrastive analysis of two audio descriptions to Olga Boznańska’s painting „Imieniny babuni” [“Grandma’s name day”]

Abstract

Relatively little space is devoted in the academic discourse to emotionality in the transmission of audio description, which is an intersemiotic form of audiovisual translation. Emotions in the process of artistic translation seem to be inevitable, because the valuation and emotional perception comes already at the moment of reception of a given visual work by the translator. In addition, a painting itself as an artistic medium can force the audio descriptor to transfer specific emotions, because in image perception there is no specific order of information received – the translator selects it, which he later conveys in words that are emotionally marked. The analysis is of a contrasting nature – two audio descriptions to the painting of Olga Boznanska “Imieniny babuni” [“Grandma’s name day”] will be compared in terms of emotions transferred.