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Spanish term or phrase:
composición atectónica
English translation:
atectonic (open) composition
Spanish term
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composición atectónica
Y aunque en los dibujos aflore un gusto por las túnicas, encajes, brocados, muselinas y por la composición atectónica, no es esto lo que la vuelve barroca: es barroca porque es vital.
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Taña Dalglish
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Charles Davis
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Jul 14, 2017 21:15: Taña Dalglish Created KOG entry
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atectonic (open) composition
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Jamaica
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atectónico atectonic
atectonic http://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-atectonic
atectonic In sculpture, a description of shapes or forms that tend to reach out into open space.
https://www.yundle.com/terms-definitions/a/atectonic
In architecture and sculpture, any shape or form that protrudes to open space is described as atectonic.
https://www.google.com.jm/search?q=atectonic architecture&rl...
atectonic composition
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: Even though the context refers to paintings, I think it fits. My husband was an expert in the Brazilian Baroque. It's "plump," reaching out to Heaven, which is just above the clouds: http://tinyurl.com/zlqe4yy
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Thank you Muriel. Interesting!
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liz askew
: pretty literal. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Gu5WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg...
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Thank you Liz.
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Charles Davis
: See also http://www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/architecture/28... . This goes back to Wölfflin's principles of the Baroque. You could help the reader by saying atectonic (open) composition.
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Thank you Charles. Good suggestion, IMO.
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Wölfflin
The tectonic (closed) versus the atectonic (open) is one of the polarities established by the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin in the late nineteenth century in defining the Renaissance versus the Baroque in art. See here, for example:
https://books.google.es/books?id=IGr1CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA...
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