The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience. Particularities and Interpretations

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The mystical meaning of the table in contemporary art. Reinterpretation of the language of giving and receiving

Eva Pariláková
Rok vydání: 2021

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9997-2021-23
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Abstrakt

The author interprets two forms of figurativeness of the mystical experience – the touch of man with the spiritual world, God, and the experience of amazement at being – by analysing the symbol of the table in contemporary art. The author first identifies the figurativeness of the fragmentary experience contrary to the mystical experience. Subsequently, she examines the mystical table in the icon of the Trinity by Andrei Rublev as a symbol of sacred hospitality and the eucharistic sacrifice. She also examines the icon’s philosophy as a meeting of the human and the transcendent world (Florensky, Trubeckoi, Evdokimov etc.). Finally, she explains the signs of the figurativeness of the mystical semantics of the table in three contemporary paintings (Jakabčic, Podhorský). These include, for example, Christian allusions, visual minimalism, white colour, contemplative immobility, mysterious to paradoxical imaginations, or the expressive-symbolic use of red and blue.

Klíčová slova

Mystical meaning of the table. Andrei Rublev’s Trinity. Contemporary art. Integration of paradoxes. Visual minimalism. Meaningfulness of being. Amazement at being.

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Andrei Rublev: The Trinity (1411 or 1425–27), tempera, 142 cm x 114 cm. In: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Angelsatmamre-trinity-rublev-1410.jpg

Michal Jakabčic: White Dream (Picture) (1983), oil on canvas, 105 cm x 120 cm. In: https://www.nedbalka.sk/autori/michal-jakabcic/#galleryxy2-2

Rastislav Podhorský: Asking for bread II (2013), oil and pencil on paper, 29,7 cm x 21 cm. In: http://www.rastislavpodhorsky.sk/

Rastislav Podhorský: Untitled (2019–2021), acrylic, ink and pencil on paper, 17 cm x 23 cm. In: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4271212566232588&set=pb.100000316599595.-2207520000..&type=3