SELF-REPEATING HORIZONS AND IMAGINED SPRINGS

The paper examines the distinctive features of the pictorial Pavasario Sonata by M. K. Čiurlionis, while focusing on the reconstruction of spatial structures realized therein and linked with a) changes in the scenic horizon functions, b) the effort of locating the spacescape on the map that supplements them and c) providing a previously impossible position for the observer. Moreover, by invoking the notion of invisibility, the concept of the multiplicity of reality, and insufficiency of the visible world is examined, along with the idea that artistic originality echoes it and transforms the subjective vision into the means for objectivising reality. There is an assumption of registers of reality invisible to the eye, but attainable via an artist’s other ‘senses’, and made present in pictorial form. In this context, attempts are made to characterise the Čiurlionesque conception of a visionary quality and its link with the interactions of pictorial spacescapes and musical abstraction. A hypothesis of the gravitation of Čiurlionis’ painting towards abstraction is raised on the basis that this defines the endeavour to visualise ontological invisibility under the guise of musical abstraction.