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composición atectónica

English translation: atectonic (open) composition

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Spanish term or phrase:composición atectónica
English translation:atectonic (open) composition
Entered by: Taña Dalglish

21:36 Jun 29, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Spanish term or phrase: composición atectónica
This seems to be a sort of composition related to the baroque that has to do with a way of breaking down the painting, but I can't find the term in English:

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.

Thanks!!
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 22:25
atectonic (open) composition
Explanation:
As Charles suggested, you could probably explain the term.

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Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 20:25
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3 +1atectonic (open) composition
Taña Dalglish
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Taña Dalglish
Wölfflin
Charles Davis

  

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atectonic (open) composition


Explanation:
As Charles suggested, you could probably explain the term.

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Note added at 14 days (2017-07-14 21:15:30 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Local time: 20:25
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
thanks

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agree  philgoddard
5 hrs
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Reference: Refs.

Reference information:
http://www.englishdictionaryonline.org/es/espanol.asp?palabr...
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

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  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
37 mins
  -> Thank you Muriel. Interesting!
agree  liz askew: pretty literal. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Gu5WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg...
42 mins
  -> Thank you Liz.
agree  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.
9 hrs
  -> Thank you Charles. Good suggestion, IMO.
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9 hrs
Reference: Wölfflin

Reference information:
To supplement Taña's reference:

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...

Charles Davis
Spain
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PRO pts in category: 246
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