Monday, April 25, 2016

Kind Of Art Forms You Can Expect From An Illusion Exhibit

By Betty West


Art has evolved a lot over the last millennia. The art forms that were created by cavemen in the Stone Age are very much different from what is seen in our art galleries today. All these art forms have one thing in common; the fact that they all create an illusion that depicts a different realm of reality as we perceive it. One of the art forms you are likely to get from an illusion exhibit is what is known as hyperrealism. Here is what you need to know about this art form.

Hyperrealism is considered to be created to give images that are not real at all. According to Umberto Eco, it is considered to bring fantasy from something that is not real or the images cannot be understood in the real world. Here, it continues to show that it is similar to the recent trend where pictures of a model in a magazine are airbrushed through special software to make them look perfect. The trend is becoming common in music, artwork or film.

One example can be seen in the Ron Muecks artwork which is a sculptor that knows how to bring this hyper-realism into more sense. Through his skills, he can modify any display together with creating jarring pictures. His work has also been showcased in most known museums in the world today, and his popularity cannot go unnoticed.

He has a known sculpture with the image of the baby which fascinates most people. The image of that baby is much bigger than the normal size thus creating the fantasy needed. With the dead father sculpture, one may believe that it is real for it has a corpse which appears to look real.

In the dead father sculpture, real hair was used to enhance hyperrealism. Apart from the image of the dead father, there are many other sculptures that use this technique. This includes; Wildman, mask and girl. They all have one thing in common; they create fantasies from the truth as it is usually supposed.

When thinking about illusion art, a story of a kingdom where a map was made with such detail that it was equal in size to the kingdom is a good illustration. Later the kingdom crumbled and the people had to live on the map. This example best explains the trend in the media where reality has been stretched so much that it is difficult to differentiate the real from the not.

The media has over time shifted into simulating a reality by removing the naturalness of things and somehow tailoring it into a cross between real and imaginary. Actors in films are made to act hyper-real roles; natural settings in movies fine-tuned distort reality. The argument is that people to some degree enjoy these distortions of reality and like relating with them.

In case you find these artworks exciting as well as captivating, it is recommended that you find a good museum that has them. From the displays arts, you will be able to understand more why many people are embracing them. This is one way of learning more about the arts.




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