Thursday, January 8, 2015

Understanding What Figurative And Genre Art Really Are

By Enid Hinton


One of the most celebrated fields of today is art. It comes in different pieces. Anything that depicts beauty and uniqueness as well as truth or desire and is created or captured by humans can be considered as artworks. Because of the high value that it possesses, you can see that it is very expensive.

When you try to create something and it is finished, it would fall into various categories. The classification would be done through determining the methods that it was used. There are also others that is classified through knowing the purpose of creating it. But most of the time, the artwork is determined by both these factors. Two of the best examples would be figurative and genre art.

Many people would just simply say that it is an artwork. But for the expert, there will always be classifications so that they would have an objective on what they are trying to make. With the use of the classifications it would be easier to bring out the unique feature that each artwork has. For example, you can see that those which are made with figurative style are the types of images that really happened.

One of the major different between the two is that genre pieces can just be created through the use of the imagination of the artist. It can be real but it can also be something that was just imagined. It can be confusing at times because the final pieces look the same.

One of the distinguishing element of a figurative portrait is the time being applied. You can see that it is derived from a specific era. This is one of the most important feature that distinguishes this from the other categories. It aims to show the type of culture that is present during that time.

Another thing that can be noticed is the clever mix of an intellectual concept with a common form of art. For example, the gods and goddesses in Greece where created to show a precise work for geometry and proportions. It is very difficult to achieve the perfect balance, thus they are pieces that are still celebrated up to this day.

A lot of people are confused when it comes to the abstract kinds and the figurative ones. There is no need to be. Although they are both derived from the same concept, the abstract pieces would make you think and look harder to figure out the image. On the other hand, a figurative is defined and the images are can be seen clearly immediately.

Genre artwork is one of the most famous classification of arts. This is what you would usually see in the homes of different people. And the image that is usually depicted are those that are seen in the daily seen as well. This is why you can easily see the story that is happening in the picture.

But it is not only for human activities. It also applies to what happens in other places such as underwater and in the forest. This can be considered as trying to capture the scenery. That is why you can also hear that it is also known to be scene arts or painting. This is the type of art that was on the rise when the average people were already aware of the presence of art and they have started procuring it.




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