Mimesis and abstraction - the paradigmatic principles and traditions of fine art representation in the training of architects

Gábor Üveges

doi:10.3311/pp.ar.2008-1.05

Abstract

The notion of mimesis and abstraction. Mimesis and abstraction in the training of architects. Art in the training of architects. The analogy that exists in conceptual, intellectual and compositional areas between fine art and architecture offers tremendous new opportunities to make the work carried out in the spirit of geometrical abstraction and other closely related movements to be the (modern) school of architectonic thinking, organization of structure and space and visual and spatial order.

Highlights

The mimetic artworks approached the world lying beyond perception through the world perceived; they promised the possibility of getting a glimpse of divine beauty as reflected by earthy beauties and of discovering truth lying beyond the realm of physical perception
Together with, all their alluring attractions and the sensual experience deriving from the presentation of bodies, objects and natural beauties, mimetic artworks in their most sublime forms were mainly hierophantic representations; in other words they visually represented the manifestations of the sacred through the visible world
If we take a different approach and refuse to accept the validity of the absolute precondition – one that the classical periods took for granted in connection with this genre – whereby painting should depict the visible world, for the lack of any other alternative; if, we refuse to see this either as a starting point or as a point of reference, we shall find that the main characteristic of the new art tendency lies precisely in its victory over that old concept

Summary

Introduction

To any abstract works of art, a mimetic artwork is autonomous, even if lay persons are unable to recognize this, because the theme of the painting completely absorbs their attentions, leading them to believe that the picture is organized according to the logic of the visible world, when precisely the opposite is true.

Results

Conclusion