THE DECORATIVE-ESTHETIC FUNCTIONS OF THE WINDOW IN THE TOWN MEDIUM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF AUSTRIA)

The analysis of the decorative-esthetic functions for the town window has been performed on the example of the Austrian medium art of 1960 to 1994 years. The short familiarization with the formation of the Vienna window at the beginning of the XXth century has been offered by the master of the Austrian modern. The purpose of the work: the functional-esthetic aspects of the town window as the kind of the decorative art, the composition principles, methods and means of its realization, and the modern tenencies of development of the window space formulation. The deep characteristic of fine art of the Austrian Architecture-artistic experiment of the town windows creation has been given. The investigation of decorative-esthetic functions of the windows in the town medium and the perspective artistic tendencies of its development has been performed. The results of the investigation can be used in the artistic design of the modern window, which acquires a special actuality under the conditions of the economic conversions in RussiaAvailable from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio