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.
B. K. McClary Art
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Making Your Own Work: Reading 1
ART VIEW; HUMAN FIGURE IS BACK IN UNLIKELY GUISES
By MICHAEL BRENSON
Making Your Own Work: week 15
Finishing up with this part of the semester of creating our own work, I continued following Gerhard Ritcher's process of scrapping away with the squeegee. I also have continued with scratching in the human figure in order to move forward with the conversation between the abstract and the representational. In my work I encompassed the representational figure with the abstract as a way to hide the image. With the last few pieces I left a portion of the campus white as a way to create a sense of grounding. The first paintings I didn't do this which gave the figure I placed with in it the feeling that the figure is floating rather than being anchored down to a ground. My use in the human figure (male and female) was a way to take a concrete representational form and contradict it against the abstract. Hiding the figure with in the painting allows me to express how typically people hide their true selves to others. With my paintings, the viewer has to get up close in order to see the figure. This can be taking as a metaphor that one has to get close to someone before they reveal their true self.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Making Your Own Work: Week 14
This week I am stilling working on the third painting. With the way I have been applying and scrapping the paint is creating linear lines of colors giving it a geometric feel. I don't have much reflection on this one as it is still in the beginning stages. I'm still not exactly sure the outcome for this one and just allowing each step and layer to guide me as to what to do next. I do however plan to continue with scratching on a figure on the final layer to keep with the hidden image of the figure seen in the previous one.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Making Your Own Work: Week 13
The top photo is of the second painting I've been working on with the hidden figure within the abstract. I'm taking a break from this one as I'm not sure whether or not I want to add more hidden information to it. The bottom photo is a new painting started this week. With this one I want to start the process of the abstract differently than the others to see whether the abstracted marks would come out differently. I started with mixing colors and scooping globs of them on to the surface. Then took the squeegee and scrapped the globs around allowing the squeegee to pick up the paint and making the marks across the surface. This resulted in more lines of colors.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Making Your Own Work: Week 12
This week I wanted to continue with a conversation between representation and the abstracted. I began a new painting similarly to the other one. I created an abstract by still adding paint to the canvas and using a squeegee to wipe it away. I continued doing this in three layers. The final layer ( not shown above yet) I will draw on a male figure with a pencil cutting into to the paint leaving a mark that is legible yet is hide within the abstract. I choose to do a figure on top because to me the human figure is a concrete form that can contradict with the abstract already produced.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Making Your Own Work: Week 11
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