Omega fold
The omega fold is an artistic fold shape .
definition
As an omega fold, a form of draping is defined in the fine arts , the outlet of which is designed in the form of an omega Ω. It is formed by two lateral tubular folds. This form of folds can be found z. B. in Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus - La nascita di Venere (1486), Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna and Roman Pietà , a variant with a double omega fold on the statue of the Michelangelo Buonaroti monument in Florence , Raphael's Sistine Madonna in Dresden , a late Gothic, characteristic "wrinkled" variant of the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder illustrates the "engagement of St. Catherine" in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in the white headscarf of Mary , on the statue of liberty and the statue of Mary at the Burtscheider hospital a neo-baroque interpretation of the Darmstadt Madonna presumably a work by Gustav Angelo Venth .
The omega fold occurs in all art techniques ( etching , drawing , painting , sculpture , plastic , graphics , handicrafts such as tapestry , goldsmithing, etc.) and centuries. There are some variants of the Omega fold: voluminous, lying flat on the floor, but also bent in the middle.
Wrinkle formations
Other fold formations in art are:
- Tubular fold
- Cascade of folds, cascade folds
- Trough folds
- Bowl fold (approx. 1350-1450)
- Y-fold
- Bundle of folds
- Fold vortex
- Box fold
The shell , the shell motif, developed from the draping of an entire part of the garment in omega form . This is particularly evident in Renaissance works, for example in Michelangelo's "God the Father" representation of the Sistine .
literature
- Omega fold on google.de
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
- ↑ A simplified version without tube folds at the sides by the Swiss- born satirical draftsman Fritz von Dardel : "En väska," 1896
- ↑ St. Dorothea, Utrecht around 1530, oak wood, painted , SLM
- ↑ " Diana and Actaeon " 17th century. Variant without tube pleats in the red cape of the Actaeon, a Brussels work, SLM.
- ↑ "Rear View of a Naked Dancer"; Pompeian wall painting, detail, Mystery Room of the Mystery Villa; around 60/50 BCE