Avant-Garde artists and the physical sciences approach mixes that depict the shape of space at Lucio Fontana and El Lissitzky

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer at the Lebanese University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture - Branch One

Abstract

The perception of space was an obsession among Avant-Garde
artists at the beginning of the twentieth century, until some
artworks in this aspect appeared as multiple experiments in
scientific laboratories, so the visions of its artists converged with
modern science on the concept of visualizing a form of space.
The new scientific transformations since the beginning of the
twentieth century have led to imposing its presence on the
European arena through accelerated scientific discoveries, which
have been reflected in the arts of modernity, and beyond
(Postmodernisme). In this aspect, El Lissitzky and "Lucio
Fontana, occupied two different directions in their perception of
space, and they expressed their ideas in forms that took into
account the scientific aspect. The research question in this regard
was whether they actually met in form and content with the
physicists' perception of the universe. From this point of view, the
research we are dealing with revolves around many research
aspects related to the relationship of art with science since the
emergence of modernist and experimental philosophies, and the
cosmic vision and its impact on physics and art after it was
associated with the work that is related to space, “spatialism”, in
the concept of infinity in cosmos and dynamism and the impact of
mechanical and electromagnetic philosophy on the arts that
describe the two fields: electric and magnetic which formed a
cosmic vision for the Rayonists in art and between the force and
the energy of the void with the designations of zero.

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