Symbolika w dziele rzeźbiarskim

Abstract

Reflections on symbolism in sculpture concentrate on the essence of the sculptor’s symbolism of transmission of the universal, individual and personal essence. Reflections are expressed in a cross-sectional form through the history of art, sculpture and through the specificity of the context of the sculpture depending on the material, three-dimensionality, and space. The focus of the article is the specificity of sign symbolism differentiating it from graphical or painterly symbolism; it is more descriptive, literary, more “ambiguous”. The author draws attention to the necessity of communicative conciseness of sculpture, the succinctness of transmission, the formal synthesis of sculpture, referring to the selected examples taken throughout the history of art until the present. The article consists of two parts: the first one is more a digression on the methods of “symbolising” in sculpture, on the use of expression and colour in sculpture, on the transmission of one-element work and multi-element work, including/incorporating the broad space in the author’s intention of an artist. The second focuses on the symbolic systems used by sculptors from early history until now, the symbolic transmission brought by man, the pars pro toto issue, expressing the movement, understanding and reading the space. Final relfections concern monumental works and their references and questions about the future of artistic transmission in sculpture.