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Is Art Abstract Or Representational?
Rembrandt van Rijn began his career painting very realistic and polished portraits and landscapes. By the end of his career, having satisfied his need to show the world his masterly technique and draftsmanship, he began to paint what was in his heart. His last works are quite literally splashes and daubs of paint. While they still maintain a representational quality, they are abstract in nature.
What we carry in our hearts, love for example, is beyond any kind of description that any of our five senses can understand or comprehend. Consider the progression of Michelangelo's "David" created in the beginning of his career to the "Rondanini Pieta" sculpted at the end of his career. The "Rondanini Pieta" is said to be unfinished but the proportions of the figures along with their gestures and harmonious attitudes display a gentle depth of feeling that his earlier works lack.
Consider some of the many 20th century examples such as Matisse and Picasso who began painting polished representational images early in their careers but then made a gradually increasing transition into the realm of abstract imagery.
Matisse and Picasso studied human anatomy as did Rembrandt and Michelangelo. All four studied perspective. All four studied traditional drafting and painting techniques. All four utilized abstract compositional themes. Rembrandt ended his career as he excelled in the use of heavy texture; Michelangelo excelled in complimentary color contrasts in the Sistine ceiling and in abstract form in the Rondanini Pieta; Matisse was unsurpassed in the use of patterns; Picasso was a genius of many design elements and principles as were all of the truly great masters.
Personally I can enjoy a polished representational work of art if it combines a solid use of abstract design elements and principles which, when applied together make an aesthetically sound composition. However, an abstract image that is devoid of composition is as dry and lifeless as open space.
A few design principles are balance, harmony, divergence, unity, movement, rhythm, pattern, contrast, proportion and emphasis. Many artists have spent their entire lives concentrating on the combination of only one design element and one design principle.
Good design depends upon how one orders the basic design elements. I was taught that there are five design elements; line, shape, color, value and texture. When working on a flat surface, shape and value work together to create form. On an abstract level, form is the result of the combination and order of one or more of the design elements within the parameters of specific design principles. With the addition of color, the form evokes a stronger "feeling". It is given more substance.
How one orders these design elements within a structured symmetrical or asymmetrical design is dependent upon the personality of the individual artist. Adherence to the development of balance is a traditional, very classical goal. However, for the purpose of evoking certain psychological themes, a strong imbalance can be very effective. You can easily see how an artist could spend an entire lifetime on one design element and one design principle.
Regardless of whether your personal inclination is to paint or draw in a realistic manner or in any one of the many stylized or abstract styles, the simple fact is that all of the great masters recognized the absolute necessity of developing an ever deepening grasp of both naturalistic form along with abstract design elements and principles.
A discussion of color and how it relates aesthetic with scientific considerations will follow shortly.
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Can you help me with information on Picasso?
okay so im looking up information on picasso because i love to paint and draw and im pretty artistic. I have a few questions on him though
1. How did picasso use the elements?
2. How did picasso use the elements to communicate an idea to viewers?
3. How did he use the principles?
4How did he use the principles to communicate an idea to viewers?
5. What materials and tools did he use and how did he use them?
6 what was his expressive idea? (like mood, emotion, picture, symbol...)
*** Elements are: Line, Shape/form, Space, color, texture, and value
*** Principles are: balance, pattern, Emphasis, composition, rhythm, variety, contrast, unity
Thanks for all your help (:
Just to clarify a couple of points.
Cubism was in invention of Picasso and Braque and was started in 1907 and continued in various forms until 1914.
Picasso never painted abstract pictures, nearly all his work is about the human form. There are some pictures of bulls and other animals, mythological creatures and still lives, but he was principally a figurative painter.
The vast majority of his work is oil on canvas, although he also did sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
His work is nearly always based on an emotional and expressive response to what he observed or experienced.
The remainder of your question is mainly subjective; what do you think and how do you feel about his use of line,colour, form, etc?
Pablo Picasso Abstract Portrait