> History of art witnesses emotions,reasons,
crisis and constructions which marked eras and periods endured by humanity.
Art is documenting, denouncing, praising and doubtlessly a “subversive
“way of expressing. Art evolved, significantly, opposing closed-forms which
characterized the Renascence period to more open-forms characterizing Baroque.
> Crisis that affected and affect
humanity can be seen in the art evolution as “Expressionistics” who interpreted
in their paintings, political, social and existential conflicts, which
resulted as a consequence of the 1st World War.
REACTING
TO CRISIS. > Now the “concrete “and “minimalists “artists chose the order,stripping
off all rhetoric sights, choosing a way of expression (on canvas or in
sculptures) down to basic elements (lines, colors, planes, spaces, etc).
Many times mathematical formulas, machines and technical resources were
used. Then, at this stage, the artist begins to develop a structural idea,
of “constructive” arrangement.
THE
ORGANIZED CHAOS. > In this way,we should look at the artist’s work, who
chose to manifest his perspective through a “constructive”way, as an effort
to organize chaos. A constructive artist tries to construct a new world
and as such he is basically optimistic. Being of an utopian view, he doesn’t
imitate existence: he invents, to build a new world, clear, clean and fair.
CONSTRUCTIVE
ART AND CONSTRUCTIVISM. > The constructive art is an artistic flowing,
and we shouldn’t confound it with “constructivism”: this movement emerged
in Moscou about 1920 - when the brothers Prevsner and Gabo, sculptores,
published a manifest - that assembled artists like El Lissitski, Tathin
and Rodchenko, among others.
> The one first in the “Proun
“series,explored virtualities and ambiguities geometry,searching for optical
relations pluri-directional with no transcendancy, only accuracy. The second
invented the counter-reliefs,using metal,plastic,glass,wood.They are works
that mix paintings and sculptures.
THE PROCESS
CREATOR & DESIGN. > Max Bill, concrete artist and designer, says the
“the creator process of the concrete art moves from the image-idea to the
image-object and this transformation happens due to a law in development
when duly studied,can result in a drawing, a picture, a building or an
industrial product.
THE LANGUAGE
IS UNIVERSAL BUT THE MEANING DIFFERS. > Although its universal meaning
the constructive art acquires different meanings from European and American
and Latin American productions. For example: we perceive these differentials
confronting the Neoplasticism by Mondrian and the Constructive Universalism
by Torres Garcia or American Minimalism with the sensitive geometry (or
liric poetry) of Latin Americans. The history of constructive art should
include studies of movements, schools or groups like Constructivism, Neoplasticism
Concrete Art, Constructive Neoconcretism and more, its technical unfolding
and expanding cybernatic art, art by computer.
ART &
SCIENCE
THEORY OF
CHAOS. > In the last decade,physicians, biologists, astronomers and economists
created a new way to focus chaos of complexity nature. The science of chaos
is permitting to identify patterns (where before we only casualness and
the unexpectedness,the chaotic). They discovered that as the chaos can
be hidden under a façade order (in search by constructive artist)
also hidden in the depths of chaos is a kind of order even more fantastic,according
to the physician Douglas Hofstadter.
> In a simple language, the chaos
is an everyday world science, formulating questions thal all children have
already made about the shape of the clouds, avout smoke rising to the sky,
about the way water forms vertexes in a stream. In art the artist’s sensibility
and consideration surprise us with unexpected discoveries, focused on exploitation.
BUTTERFLY
EFFECT & FRACTAIS. > Who has never heard of “the butterfly effect”?
Edward Lorenz found out that the weather unforseeble. He examplifies: “the
movement of a butterfly wing here can arouse a hurricane on the other side
of the hemisphere”. Mitchell Feigenbaum meditations about art and nature
in a constant or universal order. And ,so we reach the fractal concept
of Benoit Mandelbrot, who created a geometry of nature, a work known as
“Mandelbrot Spiral”.
> We verify that either the scientist
or the artist, both with their conflicts, emotions and frustrations have
their moments of revelations. Who will be able to view the world in the
same way as before ?
