Thursday, November 13, 2014

Everything About Figurative And Genre Art

By Christa Jarvis


Art is one of the few things that make our world more round and beautiful. It opens up our eyes to see not only beauty but also truth. What makes it significant in the human life is still debatable for some people. But one remains certain for all of us, it is life. It came to us thousands of years ago. It is as old as time but as beautiful as the future.

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.

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 which he entitled as The Weeping Woman is one of the best examples of the genre. It is made out of oil in canvas which he painted on nineteen thirty nine. It is one of his most intriguing works for it is where he started moving away from his usual war themes. His mistress served as the model of the work. What is mainly shown on the work is the suffering women across any culture.

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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