Conference paper
IMPORTANCE OF SYMBOLISM FOR THE ORIGIN OF ABSTRACTIONIST ART IN SLOVENIA
Igor Zabel
Abstract
Attention is first dran >n to the ref lection of some symbolistic
motifs and ideas in visual ar t of Slosenia in the
f irst quavter of t hi s century, primarily i n th e works ofauthors belonging to the expvessionist genevatio>i. 1>npovtance
of sy>nbolistic co>icepts for the early abstraction self-reflectio
» (Kandi»ski) is also »ientioned. In this confext, part
.'ciilar re fevence is gi>ento Franc Kralj's early experiments,
by which he tended to approach abstractionist painting.
Atte>npts are»!ade to explai>i the impetus n>hich led Kralj
ton ards such painting and the inner self-blockade i»imanent
to such erideavors, by controversial đia!ectes of the spirit
and the matter concepts.
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Hrčak ID:
153380
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Publication date:
15.12.1989.
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