Manifesto sobre a osmose das artes - A metamorfose do espaço, Nadir Afonso

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand the relationship of duality between Painting and Architecture, in an affinity of relations that put the two arts in parallel, in which drawing emerges as a work tool. Although painting has been present throughout the history of architecture, as can be seen in the work of Alberti and Brunelleschi, with the advance of industrialization and technology, a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, the creative relationship between these two arts has lost vitality. In this way, the Arts Osmosis Manifesto intends to look into this relationship in which the scenic game, the metaphysics of space, the form and rhythm, the light and shadow, the color and the texture, poetically communicate conveying feelings and sensations, regardless of their framework, two-dimensional or three-dimensional With this in mind the work of Nadir Afonso appears as the object of study, as it presents a multi-faceted artist, as an architect, painter, theoretician and researcher, an artist who due to his interest in geometry developed a scientific art. Thus, in Nadir Afonso's pictorial work, form does not appear merely as a two-dimensional element, but rather, architectural. Although the architect / painter abandoned his professional practice in the 1960s, his work still stands out today for its metaphysical and singular composition, since it uniquely relates form and space. Finally, and after the interpretation of Nadir Afonso's theoretical and practical work, an individual study developed in which the author concentrated on understanding the relationship of the existing forms in the matrix drawing, thus uniting the two arts, Painting and Architecture.