Tectonics (visual arts)
In the fine arts , the term tectonics (from the Greek τέκτων , master builder) describes the highlighting and clarification of constructive elements and structures. The term is not limited to the radical reduction of form, as was the case in the geometricizing style of the Russian avant-garde and in constructivism . In other spatial and figurative works of art, too, especially sculptures, tectonics refers to the laws of the structure inherent in the work of art, its statics, its assembly and the recognizability of load-bearing, burdening and supporting parts. In contrast to stylistic epochs, whose works tend towards a tectonic , self-contained stylization (Classical, Romanesque, Renaissance), other times place value on achieving an atectonic impression that hides the statics (late Gothic, Rococo).
literature
- Dictionary of Art , Volume 5, Leipzig 1978, p. 50.
- Seemann's Lexicon of Sculpture , Leipzig 2007, p. 422