Video: New symbolism and conceptual symbolism in fine arts
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We owe the term "new symbolism" to such an outstanding master of modern conceptualism as Vitaly Komar, who back in 2009 in New York formulated the initial definition of this trend in the visual arts. Naturally, Vitaly Komar, being primarily a representative of "Sotsart", saw "syncretism of state symbols bordering on absurdity." However, expanding this concept, he inevitably had to highlight the special role of the modern interpretation of ancient historical symbols that once united the visual arts, literature, writing.
Considering conceptual symbolism as a phenomenon of modern artistic culture, we must clearly understand its contradictory essence. On the one hand, the use of the definition of "symbolism" can give rise to often incorrect associations with symbolistic movements in art, which at all times were based on more or less use of allegory as an expanded symbol. The work of artists of all times, from Theophanes the Greek and Hieronymus Bosch to Mikhail Vrubel and Marc Chagall, is, to varying degrees, "illustrative symbolism" expressed in the colors and customs of the era and personality. On the other hand, it is precisely the addition of the term "conceptual" that makes it possible to convey the peculiar features of this trend. But since the art of pure conceptualism according to Joseph Kosuth is a process, not a result, the finished objects of conceptual symbolism will only be more or less conceptual.
The criterion here can be only the level of philosophical generalization of the signs and symbols used, and additional, although not insignificant, signs will be the absence of elements of embellishments as an artistic device, and the need for verbal commentary for a full-fledged artistic perception. Being an unconditional derivative of conceptualism, conceptual symbolism here finds its expression in a finished object, be it a painting, ceramics, furniture. But the object of conceptual symbolism owes its existence in the world of art not to its physical qualities, but to some transcendental symbols transmitted through this physical object.
In this regard, the perception of conceptual symbolism in fine art is an extraordinary task, designed for a trained viewer with sufficiently developed associative links and appropriate vocabulary. This fact is once again proved to us by the live-picture art objects on display here by the artist Evgeny Gegouzin. For more information on contemporary visual art of conceptual symbolism, please visit www.newlinearte.com
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