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STRUCTURALISM. SCIENTIFIC WORK. DAGS VIDULEJS

STRUCTURALISM. SCIENTIFIC WORK. DAGS VIDULEJS:

At the Latvian Academy of Arts, Dag had a project to write a Doctoral Dissertation. But very few people can read anymore. And even less to read a book. Therefore, Dag decided to cooperate with the European flagships ART MAJEUR. To write ART MAJEUR and sell Dag's painting partner superpro ART MAJEUR. Then there is more time as a painter to establish Dag's own new painting style.

I have been working on the introduction of the structuralism method in painting for several decades. After my second studies at the Academy of Arts. In-depth study of sociology as well. This is a new method in Latvian art that can enrich the range of artists’ means of expression. Which can also actively enrich the perception of society and the individual. Dozens of exhibitions have been organized in this direction and about a hundred works have been created.

Structuralism as a interdisciplinary discipline includes research in sociology and its representation in the language of painting, complementing:

1. Structuralism in painting is based on the assumption that observed objects do not exist in isolation in the sense of subjectivity, but in relation to other objects – in structures, despite the variability and ambiguity of structures.

2. The exposition is based on the form of diptych, which makes it possible to orient the paintings in the counterpoint method, to achieve interactivity with the viewer and generalizations in the process of comparison, similar to the processes of thought. Like drama, it is based on a struggle of opposites. In a structural system of thinking, thinking about the world and everything in it and going through it in binary opposites, such as black and white, high and low, person and animal.

3. Through these opposites, cultivated as “good” and “bad”, each culture and its traditions, politics, religious rituals, games, education are built. By reproducing and reproducing according to a predetermined structure, whole systems of opposing signs, a cultural strategy and ideology emerges. A culture that acts as a semiotic sign system that structures the process of communication and gives it predictability. A culture that provides a unified presentation and interpretation of the messages exchanged during the communication process.

4. Democracy – Totalitarianism, Christianity – Satanism, Communism – Fascism, Corruption – Knab, Pandemic – Vaccine, USA – Russia, European Union – Soviet Union. However, the more one tries to prove antagonism, the more the concepts merge into one whole unity of opposites, especially with the time difference, like expansive fascism and expansive communism, intertwined in one two-headed “World War II” turmoil. In the context of current social change, such a critical discourse is an analysis of the balance of power in society.

5. The social objects studied in structuralism are relative rather than substantive. The social world is explained not by individual action, but by relationships and relationships between relationships. Whole is formed as a differential articulation of subjects. Differential-stable differences between individuals and between groups of people. Articulation of interests is a function of the political system in order for political parties to identify the demands of public entities on the current political system.

6. In art, structuralism is an opportunity for a parallel development path to abstraction that occupied a large part of the art of the 20th century. Structuralism and Abstractionism have common mottos: “Attack on Realism”, “Denial of Photo Perception of Objects”.

7. The metatheoretical setting of structuralism provides a unifying and interdisciplinary approach. Structuralism opposed the positivism of scientific methodology, which defines empirical research as the only source of true, useful knowledge. Structuralism justifies the cognitive value of philosophical research. Structuralism denies the main thesis of positivism that “all true knowledge is the cumulative result of the special sciences.”

8. Structuralism denies naturalism in painting and the methods of natural sciences as an explanator of the processes of social phenomena. Because Naturalism claims that the world does not depend on consciousness and is known directly through machines and artificial intelligence. Naturalism also explains the history and future activities of society as a direction of sociology with various climatic, geographical and biological factors of nature.

9. Structuralism also denies Humanism as a method of cognition by which people shape and know their world, in which the education system teaches an imaginary model of the world, and recognizes itself as a member of an imaginary abstract, unified society. Although, in reality, society has to be seen as a place of struggle for survival by the vital antagonistic interests of the opposite group, which are hidden behind a common national, geographical identity. Without identifying one’s belonging, not understanding oneself and not being able to analyze and defend one’s real situation. In the society of the class, the strata, whose members do not come into complete contact, did not overlap in the way of life, opportunities or rights.

10. Structuralism also denies Structural Anthropology, which projects the elementary structures of the family’s kinship into the structure of society by separating homogeneous structures. What has been preserved to this day by Eastern clan societies. As well as the ancient families of Western societies, which have all their finances, and which have been following their blood for thousands of years. Unlike cultured Western civil society, whose blood affiliation to a family is almost completely eradicated, without even acknowledging the Mother, the Father, the family as a child’s creative entity without writing in the passport; not meeting grandparents and not knowing cousins, losing family property and no longer respecting family traditions and stubborn selfless self-help.

11. The method of sociology, by distinguishing the huge difference of homogeneous subcultures, more precisely and surprisingly, helps a person to identify and place himself in a local society, socializing in the context of all humanity. And to recognize, ratify the dominance of each person in the infinite range of small and large subcultures. Seeing subcultures as living collective organisms and even being able to analyze their interactions.

12. Structuralism in painting is a passionate method of studying art, culture and society, but not Foucault’s biased philosophy. An approach to art, closer to professional journalism that portrays facts, without an assessment of personal attitude. In addition, structuralism differs from the general analysis of scientific structures, from architectural structuring and structural differentiation in psychology, and from its structural role in the general scientific systemic approach.