ARTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Figurative Art
Document Summary
It depicts the natural things in our world, mostly involving the human form, but can refer to everyday objects. Ray beldner"s this is definitely not a pipe (fun fact: averaged . 00 to make!) The feel behind representational art is that art pieces can use a variety of mediums that have the ability to build off other types of art, such as the examples listed above. They are ideas that are recycled and thus, become changed forms of art. To sum up: originality is not the main focus behind representational art, its main focus is taking something else and building from it. Works that depict natural objects, but are often simplified. Works that depict natural objects, but is abstracted. To sum up: when dealing with abstraction, you deal with non-representational art. Non-representational art focuses on mood and feeling, it"s not so much of the depiction in itself. Form is the total effect of any given work of art.
