Radical experimental architecture
Introduction
Experimentalism refers to an avant-garde tendency in the art and literature of the century to explore new concepts and representations of the world, breaking with the conventions established in previous cultural tradition. Experimentalism was a characteristic in the artistic and literary when the avant-garde movements emerged (futurism, cubism, dadaism, expressionism, fauvism, surrealism...).[1] According to the Center for Latin American Science, Education and Society, "on the artistic level with experimentalism it usually refers to those manifestations with a vocation to criticize, overcome, challenge, break and/or generate alternative techniques and results to the classics. In the case of the plastic arts it was characterized by the application of experimental empirical method in the search for new forms of expression".[2].
Background
According to the poet Herberto Helder, experimentalism has always been present in the arts. There is no creative work that is not experimental, in the sense that it involves a critique of the wear and tear of the media you use and constantly seeks to recharge your capacity for invention.[3].
In the Middle Ages, the creation of texts in ideogrammatic or calligraphic formats was a constant practice, which already represented an artistic innovation, a form of experimental poetry that would be a precursor to Concretism of the century.[4].
Mannerism, which emerged in the 19th century, was experimental in the sense that it represented a relaxation in the classicist rigor of the Renaissance. Baroque artists also experimented, in antitheses, in paradoxes, in light-dark contrasts, in exaggerated details (both in literature and in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater).
Romanticism (century) was also experimentalist by breaking with the molds and conventions of neoclassical art and by daring to insert the grotesque, the dark, the ghostly into art. For centuries, then, new genres emerged in literature and art and others merged. New possibilities have been tested and new paths have been discovered.
Description
Experimentalism is called, therefore, as opposed to classicism, all that artistic manifestation (musical, poetic, theatrical, plastic...) with a marked revolutionary and rupturist tendency with respect to previous models. Experimentalism, in principle, is usually opposed to popular taste. Its name comes from its imitation of science, following the empirical method, based on trial and error, in its incessant search for new forms of expression. This term is closely related to the avant-garde and "isms" that dominated the European cultural scene at the beginning of the century. Given that many great art revolutionaries created a school, it can be said that Van Gogh, Schoenberg, Picasso, Joyce, Brecht, Moore, etc., cultivated their own experimentalism in their time.