FIGURATIVE ART VERSUS ABSTRACT ART:LEVELS OF CONNECTIVITY
By: Tsion Avital
"Although abstract does not represent, it symbolizes through metaphorical exemplification, or expression....Beside representation and readability there are many more fundamental differences between these two kinds of art which strengthen the doubt as to whether abstract art is indeed art, or perhaps something else."
Abstract and figurative art differ in many ways. Figurative art contains recognizable images of objects while abstract art typically has not symbols system. Abstract paintings communicate through expression rather than representations. In a way abstract and figurative art are opposite yet they serve the same purpose in communicating a message through different vehicles. Through this essay the authors approaches the idea that art has this level of being legible that is mainly perceived in figurative art although abstract is read in its own way. With my own work, I approached this conversation between the abstract and the figurative by placing a representational figure with in the abstract though it is hidden. This then gives the readability of the abstracted a new level of legibility by also containing the representational. The viewer makes the connection with the painting in two different ways. From a distance they connect with it on the level of an abstracted painting producing their own imagery they see with in it. As the move closer and examine it more, the representational image is revealed giving more imagery and meaning to the viewer.
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