Art-associative landscape of wooden arabesques (by example of architectural decoration

The paper presents a new approach to the formation of the cultural landscape of the city in terms of its artistic component. In the field of the artistic music is the most universal form of art, so the search for musical and sonic performance is recognized by the author as a preferred foundation for the formation of the associative artistic landscape. Identification of musical sound characteristics of the elements of architecture leads to the definition of their communities, patterns and, consequently, the new cultural landscape of a city. The connection of arabesque ornamentation and music has long been recognized theoretically, but has not been sufficiently proved practically. The aim of this work was to analyze the specific architectural examples based on musical logic, synthesis, identification of community and patterns in the formation of the elements of the cultural landscape of a city. As examples were taken three samples of free arabesques used for decorating the gables of wooden buildings in Tolstoy Street 29, at the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskiy Prospect and Anatolia Street, and the intersection of Gogol Street and Krasnoarmeyskiy Prospect in Barnaul. The analysis has found the common form (six-part series of small fragments), texture (dense filling of the space with small intricately developed lines), line types, tempo, rhythm, timbre, which makes it possible to identify the genre of a musical counterpart (sketch, musical arabesque) and its direction (Romanticism and post-Romanticism). The specifics of each ornament allowed deciding on the type of techniques peculiar to the genre. The tendency to recurrence of such examples of musical forms general associativity to determine the specific landscape of the city of Barnaul. Moreover, arabesque ornament in the adapted version is found in the design of casings and other architectural elements of a number of wooden buildings of the city, so the area covered by the musical romance of arabesques can be larger manifesting in modernism and eclectic architecture. Abstraction of comparisons enables to perceive the area every time anew, conducting new parallels, finding new counterparts. The cultural landscape of this place, in its artistic and associative component, acquires a new educational, axiological role by increasing its tourism and investment attraction for the city's residents and visitors. It actualizes the problem of conservation of the architectural and cultural heritage of the city, its spiritualization through the process of education of citizens.

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