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From the sensorially faithful imitation representations of plant forms and of the dynamic (increase), metaphorical behaviour of nature, an artist’s path is motivated by the scientific and technical discoveries of the social and historical context in which he performs, and which gradually changes its orientation more and more towards an artistic conceptual development and to attitude art in contemporaneity.
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An identification of the genres covered by the works of Sigismund Toduţă is illustrative in order to prove its area: from vocal, choral, vocal-symphonic and theatrical works, up to the symphonic and chamber areas. Nevertheless, one of the most widely spread genres of the time, the string quartet, seems not to represent the thinking of the composer from Cluj.
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History of European thought is constantly crossed by the presence of the symbol in all its diversity of existential and spiritual manifestations. By extension, the visual arts have to do with a key binomial, namely imagined reality versus symbolic reality. The “old” Heraclitian “materials”: water, air, fire and earth, become from the second half of the twentieth century work materials used by artists in their creation.
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Scientific argumentation of the permanent reversion into the synthesizing tendency, to purification and simplification of the plastic – sculptural form, along the history of the art. The privilege of the form to periodically gain its freedom by the creative imagination of the artist, by the need to give always a new plastic sense to the “line of the absolute return”, either on own account, or in the name of a new aesthetics, crossing over parallel worlds in the eagerness to become elementary and simple.
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Not surprisingly, the Madrid Codex is part of the endless number of studies done during his life by Leonardo da Vinci, standing alongside Codex Leicester, Codex Atlanticus, Codex Trivulzianus , Codex Arundel, Codex Forster or its Flights of Birds Codex, the Painting Treaty or Manuscripts in Paris. However, surprisingly, is that after 500 years, Joseph Beuys interpreted in his own way this document, in which the idea plays crucial role, by bringing together images, notes or charts.
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