The Cultivation of Ideas

Abstract

René François Ghislain Magritte is a Belgian painter known for paintings depicting real objects in impossible relationships. The Cultivation of Ideas shows a change in the thought process frozen in one moment. Looking at the picture, viewer can assume the next steps in the development of the image. Further image change is depending on viewer perception. The paper is the result of analyzing and interpreting the image The Cultivation of Ideas, by René Magritte, through a methodology of decomposition. As such, it has a clear connection with artistic creativity and it is the subjective grasp of the creative process embodied in the metaphor of cultivation that unfolds daily around us, through the micro-macro world. The research is a visual and linguistic demonstration of thought processes. It functions as a guideline, not by any means as a repeating pattern. It is based on short instructions, and opens the possibility for any kind of user integration. The methodology process of two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatial decomposition is resulting in architectural order guidelines and matrix. The result of research is variable definition and re-definition of a street, a square and a park. Street is a body movement symbol, the line and an ideal way to observe the environment. It can be endless and a compound of an extremes. The square is a point of intersection of different interests, needs and ideas. It is a public knot, a static and diverse foundation on an event. The park can take on different roles. Its users are the creators of the park, and the park educates the users.