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• Title:
  A Refunctionalisation of Form. The Modernist Turn in the Opus of Painter Leonid Šejka
• Creator:
  Milosavljević-Ault, Angelina
• Description:
  Works by Belgrade artist Leonid Šejka (1932–1970) are usually considered fantastic, an embodiment of aesthetic ideals of Mediala Art Group he was a member of, an opposition to everything that Modernism stood for with its harsh formalism that expelled object. However, the complexity of Šejka’s opus as artist and theorist allows a different approach. In this paper, we turn to – so far neglected – Šejka‘s positive relation to Modernism, which he saw as a foundation for new aesthetic ideals. He understood that Modernism turned paintings into objects of empty forms void of function. Nevertheless, the future of painting, for him, resided in re-introduction of objects into painting in order to re-establish the necessary form-function relation, preserving, at the same time, Modernist traits. Šejka tried to demonstrate this in his mature works. He wrote about it in a series of writings, which contribute to our understanding of his opus.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2018.01.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 13 (2017): Forma i funkcja w słowiańskich językach i tekstach kultury; 249–261;
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 13 (2017): Forma i funkcja w słowiańskich językach i tekstach kultury; 249–261;
  2450-2731;
  2084-3011
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/11967/11825
• Subject:
  Leonid Šejka;
  form;
  function;
  modernism;
  objecthood
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/11967
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text