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jeudi 10 juillet 2014

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By Coleen Torres


In art, there are two main types of artworks that could be done namely figurativism and abstractism. In a nutshell, figurative and genre art is known as representational art that would emulate real life objects, places or people. As compared to abstract artwork which has no real representation and would usually have a vague meaning.

When one would depict a subject from real life, he is not necessarily making an exact replica of the subject. What he is doing is he is actually interpreting the subject and recreating it to how he perceives it. Basically, he is creating a replica of that subject with his own special twist to it.

Of course if one is interested in this type of category, he will notice that other artists in that field will use people and animals as their subjects. These two subjects are actually the most commonly used by the artists in this category. However, many artists would actually use other things for subjects as well such as scenery.

Now just to have a brief history on this type of art, the first of this kind was actually discovered in Southern Germany. It was actually a statue of a woman and was dated back to thirty five thousand years ago. Now when it comes to painting, the first one came from a small part of France and would show animals like cows or other types of domesticated creatures. This is a cave painting that dates back sixteen thousand years ago.

Now this type of artwork would be dependent on certain elements. Since this would actually try to represent actual figures that would come from real life, it is important that all the elements of objects in real life would also apply to this type of artwork. The elements would be lines, shapes, colors, shades, texture, and angling.

Of course one has to be very meticulous with the details because it is actually the details that would make the end product. Although the small lines or small shadings may not seem very noticeable, they actually do make a lot of difference. It is for this reason that being detailed is one of the most important things in being an artist.

Now the Greeks would often make exact copies of their subjects down to the very last detail. This would be in contrast to the Egyptian style of doing things which would entail a good memory and a pair of artistic hands. Of course nowadays, these two concepts have fused to create a hybrid style of doing art that people are very familiar with nowadays.

So from the Greeks to the Egyptians even up until the Renaissance artists, this category of art really grew. Of course other sub branches stemmed out because of this like surrealism and others. Up until today this type of art is still very much evolving as artists have created more techniques and methods to do their work.




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