
This is because every single intervention requires the identification of a material and its meaning. An artwork, similarly to a patient, should be examined closely while its author should be interviewed prior to making a decision about undertaking a treatment. The artistic meaning of a piece of art as well as the intentions of its author determine the way we interpret the transformation and assign the limit of our conservation intervening.ģThe research on the cultural and historic context of an author’s activity and putting a work of art in his biography are an essential phase of conservator’s examinations since they allow to grasp the relation “idea versus material”. It is the right recognition and understanding which serves as a key to getting to the nature of the changes in its material and concept sphere, from general to particular. The conservator should learn about the object in a dual system – emotionally and structurally, and shouldn’t abstain from any genuine scientific research. Not only do organic materials turn out to be short-lived and fleeting but also the synthetic ones adapted by contemporary artists which proves the sad evanescence of a work of art. The consequence is the impermanence entailed in the nature of modern objects. thesis are connected with the retention of the idea and the material and its role in visual arts altering over the centuries, especially in the course of the last century 1.ĢThe condition of contemporary works of art is a result of creative experiments which sometimes stem from the lack of knowledge, liability to acting ad hoc or creative provocations.

The issues discussed by the author as an M.A. Retaining untypical, non-artistic matter of a work of art which undergoes physical changes has a direct influence on its character, reading and meaning.


Problems of conservations of: “Relief” by (.)ġThe subject of this argument is the conservation of modern artworks which may be specified as rather distant from traditional disciplines of fine arts. 1 Mikstal K., Untypical materials in modern works of art.
