Eclecticism

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To some extent, there has always been eclectic as the inevitable consequence of a dialogue between different cultures, but the underlying principle became the art is in XIX century. All because of Romanticism, with its philosophy of "free movement in historical time" and the rejection of strict canons of art. Modern and actual was all that was comfortable and beautiful in the interiors of past styles. Many critics have accused the art of eclecticism in excessive congestion and poor taste, lack of individuality. Still, it had its own distinctive features: plastic shape, plenty of textiles, softness and comfort of furniture, a lot of decorative elements that might be little things from all over the world, reminiscent of the cultures of the East, the Mediterranean countries, etc.

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The use of mixed furniture style or a combination of items of different origins, styles and ages. Eclecticism is the style of the interior, if it is designed on the basis of a combination of no more than two or three types of stylistic, united colors, textures, architectural solution. Very often, this is achieved by introducing elements of Art Deco style in a classic or modern interior opposite.

 

Eclectica (Greek eklektikos - choose) in interior design - a combination of dissimilar in style, origin, opposite in an artistic sense, "incompatible" elements of architectural decoration, objects, works of art, the "drop out" of conventional stylistic unity of the interior.

Eclecticism - a characteristic feature of the fracture, when aesthetic norms of the organization leaving the past life no longer satisfy people, and the new has not yet been formed. So it was at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, when a purely external and often superficial assimilation of some signs of artistic styles and their non-creative connection in buildings and household items to satisfy the diversity of which excluded the organic development of the style: the blind imitation of historical patterns led to a faceless imitation and loss of healthy flavor .

Similar examples can be seen in the interiors of our day - unprincipled transfer random shapes, mindlessly copying and combining images posmoderna, high-tech and other fashion trends, creates monotony interrupted, extinguishing each other experiences.

However, I believe eclectic phenomenon only negative is wrong.

First, it is almost inevitable: even conceived in the same stylistic vein model of the interior very often in conflict with the image of their substantive content - things bearing the sign of the times, the conditions of production, or, finally, the individual taste of the owner. So modern electronics is indispensable accessory and conceptual, and finished under retro apartments where antique paintings, furniture styled to blend seamlessly home theater, split system, and other attributes of any modern home.

Second, the desire and neobhodimostispolzovat one interior decor components and equipment with conflicting visual characteristics led to the improvement of professional skills of designers, the development of specific technologies aesthetic compatibility of diverse meanings and experiences.

Among them - the building within the overall interior concept mini-songs with the same style inside the other, where it joins the contrasting parts and combinations, matching negate each other details of individual characteristics (size intimacy, unity of color similarity articulation and so on).

Thus, in the eclectic interior design is no longer evidence of incompetence or creative limitations author, but takes on a new quality - the intelligent search of artistic synthesis of objects and forms, apparently not be shared aesthetic existence.