Features of Medieval Compositional Representations

Abstract

The article examines the formation of compositional categories in the Middle Ages. These ideas naturally arose as a reaction to the collapse of ancient philosophy and ethics. The article shows that the image of a medieval composition was primarily a symbol, an attempt to figuratively represent the unimaginable, the transcendental. Medieval images were supposed to bring a person as close to the sense of the Divine as possible by contemplating the entire complex of symbolic images. The concept of light, shadow and color as a philosophical and aesthetic foundation for artistic representation, based on a holographic model of everything that exists, was rather noteworthy during this period. In the medieval composition, the tasks of organizing a plane, space, and plot cannot be considered as independent, since the artists actually didn’t face them.