Rytų ir Vakarų meno formų sąveikos problema Focillono ir Baltrušaičio menotyroje
The problem of interaction between art forms of East and West in the study of art of Foccilon and Baltrušaitis

Summary/Abstract: In the article the main attention is paid to the Henri Focillon’s and Jurgis Baltrušaitis’s comparative methodological approach, which was developed in the medieval art studies. Focusing on the riche heritage and many layers of Christian Western art and long lasting intercivilisational influences, Focillon and Baltrušaitis started a new stage of the comparative studies on the western medieval art and together with Strzygowski and Warburg outlined the history of the world art. The art historians expanded the geographical and historical borders of the research of the Christian art and developed geological morphology. They noticed that various historic layers of art forms intermingle and make certain stratifications where the elements from various ages coexist. It changed attitude towards interaction between eastern and western art forms and stimulated investigate not only the ways of the diffusion of art forms, but also the visual memory in history. Parallely developing the studies of geological morphology Focillon and Baltrušaitis revealed the filiations processes of art forms, i. e. the phenomena of continuity, the rise of the earlier layers of the art culture. These survival and revival of archaic art forms or latent diffusion of images coexist in western art history with new intercultural interaction processes, when exotic, abstract and fantastic forms are easily integrated.

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