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vendredi 14 novembre 2014

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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.

Questions about its history and origin were raised since time immemorial. It started on the centuries ago and continues to inspire modern artists. It actually came from abstraction when artists started gaining a significant amount of respect from subjects in the real world. Some people consider it as a variation of abstraction, but there are others who believed that it is present even before abstract art exists.

From its general characteristics, many people are confused how to determine whether a specific work is representational or not. What we should know is that all artworks are representational in their own way. That means it depicts recognizable subjects that are present in the environment which the artist belongs.

A close look on the work will really help a lot. What it mainly points out is that the work always has subjects or subjects. It does not matter if it is unreal or realistic, what matters is that it is recognizable. It is different from nonrepresentational or abstract which relies heavily on lines and perception.

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.

Today, artists of many schools begin experimenting on the genre. It is also used in different purposes such as showing the cultural value of the time where a work is made. It also influenced other forms of art such as photography.




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