Орнаментът — мирогледна същност, структурни и естетически особености
The ornament - ideological nature, structural and aesthetic characteristics

Summary/Abstract: In the development of the ornamentation down the ages some changes in the functions, the selection of the motives, their senses and interpretation, accompanied by relative stability in the structure are seen. The latter follows certain principles in its concrete manifestations. All of them characterize the formal construction convention of the motives, tendency towards geometrizing, rhythm, reiteration, antithesis, symmetry. These formal characteristics strive for an adequate expression of a system based on stable structures, in whose initial schemes the global cosmic order is coded. The dominant factor in the ornamental construction is above all the organization of the elements imposing conditional plastic decision, absence of narrative elements, subordination of the motive content to the structure. The ornamental order itself becomes an expression of organization and harmony, of the positive and the valuable matter. Most probably as an opposite of the chaos, then unorganized and the indistinct matter it causes positive emotions and aesthetic attitude. This positive reaction of the arranged structures is important for the aesthetic effect of the ornamentation - in its' development the aesthetic function becomes a dominant one and seeks for artistic means of expression in the frames of the organizing structures already known.

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