Looking for a word....?

Question

What is the word for a picture that has the same meaning as another pic, but they look totally different...like mother nature and a mother with a baby?
Driving me nuts....

Answer 1

Symbolism?

Analogy

Or do you mean that a WORD has the same meaning as another WORD, but the meaning is different? Thhose words are homonyms. Bear and bare. Here and hear... .

Answer 2

Valery used to say, "I write half the poem. The reader writes the other half." A picture is interpreted differently by each viewer. Perhaps you are talking about " art with replicative meaning"....