11/15/2014

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.

Historical evidences pointed out that even prehistoric people started showing their creative side by painting on caves. With all of its changes and experimentation, it has indeed come a long way. Painting is one of its most popular genres that inspired a number of artists to think of a new form like the figurative and genre art. It mainly deals with artworks that show something out of the real world. It uses models which are found on our daily life. It is the reason why it is often called as representational art. It represents something that exists in the real world. It is a great experiment of combining imagination and reality.

It has captured the human interest ever since the Greek Classical period but it was only recognized on the eighteenth century. It is the mark of opening the doors of real life objects as subjects. A chronological record of its history is absent but historians conclude that it was more explored on the nineteenth century. The depiction of reality rather than ideas caused a wide sensation worldwide. It is revolutionary in a way that it tries to shun traditional concepts.

It is often confused with other forms particularly in abstraction. That is because some of their characteristics overlap with each other. But what everyone must know is that the later was part of the development of figuration. What draws the line between is that figuration contains real life models while the abstraction does not.

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 American artist Andy Warhol is one of the main figures who utilized the form. He is one of the most controversial yet most talented artists on the roaring sixties. His mastery goes beyond one genre as his works cover a lot of them. He is well known for his striking subjects that include celebrities and hype events.

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.

What made him more influential is his assertion on the Surrealism movement. It was a revolutionary and an avant garde movement that influenced visual works and literature. It aims to express an existing idea with the help of illogical scenes.

Art today functions in different from and value. It is safe to conclude that its creation goes beyond what is beauty. Its significance dwells on appreciation and function.




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