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Chủ Nhật, 9 tháng 11, 2014

Everything About Figurative And Genre Art

By Christa Jarvis


One of the most accepted fact agreed worldwide is that art is one of the major reasons why beauty exists in this world. Its meaning and functions go beyond what is only seen for it influenced areas of concentration such as literature and music. It is perceived as something beautiful but there are those that are considered as something bad. Regardless of any criticism, our world will lose its wonders if it did not exist.

There must be countless classifications of it these days. It comes along with different movements and categories. Among its most spectacular creations, painting is one of the oldest and most experimented forms. It gave birth to a number of forms like figurative and genre art, which is also referred to as representational. Primarily, it refers to the artworks that are inspired by the everyday life. That includes ordinary scenes from schools, market and regular household.

It spread during the early Renaissance period until the twentieth century. It remained as one of the most utilized form in the modern world. A lot of people confused it with abstraction and expressionism, but both are entirely different from what it is. Their individual origin of time can provide a clear distinction for each.

Figuration begun to flourished on the nineteen thirties while the abstraction started on the seventies. Abstraction is synonymous to what is known as nonrepresentational art. Although it has its own representation, unlike figuration, it does not dwell on the real world. Abstract artists did not make use of physical and observable objects. They often view their canvas as a flat setting.

Moreover, figuration deals with the surface level of a specific work while abstraction goes deeper to the point that work became unrecognizable. Both contained ideas that are worth thinking but how they are transported to its audience depends on the form. Such forms continue to motivate young artists of today to experiment and explore.

The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is considered as one of the greatest painter of the figurative genre. Lines and colors that contained energetic human movements are evident in his works. They always attempt to draw something which is specific and present on the real world.

The painting entitled as The Persistence of Memory is his most recognizable work. It was inspired by the landscapes of Catalonia which he mixed with his theories of time and space. The work is a successful overlapping of abstraction and figuration. It is abstract in a sense that it draws confusing perception but it is more representational as it mainly shows real objects.

His influence did not stop on his works, it goes beyond the school of art produced by his style. One primary school of the figurative art is the Cubism which Picasso pioneered with other artists. In Cubism, a work always has a subject which is depicted in multiple viewpoints in order to widen its context.

Artists of various schools continue to produce something beautiful until today. Figuration is just one of their guides that helped them create the work that they want to share. In a nutshell, form does not really matter, what matters most is how an artwork contributed something in our society.




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