However, abstraction does not give you a detailed description of the world in the painting ... but it can only give you some clues about the world. Let you imagine the world through this clue ... everyone will have different associations with the same clue, so the abstract painting in everyone's eyes is different ... so it is called creating the world.
This divides the concept of work style from the similarity between the image of the work and natural objects. Figurative art refers to the art in which artistic images are basically similar or extremely similar to natural objects. The artistic images in specific works of art can be identified. Greek sculpture, modern realism and modern surrealism are regarded as typical representatives of this kind of art because their images are very similar to natural objects. Figurative art widely exists in human artistic activities, from primitive cave murals in Europe to religious murals in the Renaissance. This kind of art works can be seen from Indian Buddhist art to China's portrait masonry, and it is still an important artistic style in artistic creation. The representative theory of ancient Europe, the pictographic representation theory of ancient things in China, and the remarks of L Da Vinci are all famous theoretical expressions of figurative art.
Applied in the field of art research, abstract art and concrete art constitute a pair of related concepts.
Abstract art refers to the art that the artistic image greatly deviates from or completely abandons the appearance of natural objects; The original meaning of the word abstraction refers to the abandonment of non-essential factors and the extraction of essential factors.
Images in abstract art have little similarity with natural objects. Some artistic styles, such as calligraphy and architecture, are abstract as a whole because of their style characteristics. Some original works of art and most arts and crafts also belong to abstract art. As a conscious artistic trend of thought, the abstract art movement rose in Europe and America in the early 20th century. Most modernist art schools have been influenced by this movement, such as abstract expressionism, cubism, Tahitism, action painting and so on.
Abstract factors and concrete factors in abstract art, concrete art and works of art are two different concepts. The latter is based on the careful anatomy of the image and the relationship between the image and natural objects. It is impossible for any image similar to the object not to contain a certain degree of deviation from the object. Therefore, figurative art also contains more or less abstract factors; Similarly, many images in abstract works of art are related to natural objects to varying degrees, including figurative factors. The first modern abstract art mentioned above is an example. The concepts of abstract art and concrete art are macroscopic and intuitive; The concepts of abstract factors and concrete factors are microscopic and analytical. Confusing these two different concepts will lead to the disintegration of abstract art and concrete art concepts.
If we put the concepts of abstract art and figurative art into the colorful phenomenon of human art, we can see that they are like the poles of a magnetic bar, and many works of art are located between pure abstract art and figurative art that resembles natural objects. For example, some decorative patterns of painted pottery in the Neolithic Age in China, primitive wood carvings and masks of many tribes in Africa, some religious paintings in the Middle Ages in Europe, and some literati freehand paintings in China. This kind of art works either boldly deform and decorate specific objects, or appropriately combine the local characteristics of different objects, bringing the objects into abstract procedures and making them deviate from their original appearance. The abstract factors and concrete factors contained in artistic images are relatively harmonious, so it is difficult to simply divide them by this pair of concepts. China artists' remarks of "learning from nature, learning from nature" and "Beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity" describe the attitude of China traditional artists on this issue from two aspects: creative process and image characteristics.
Abstract art and figurative art are both long-standing art forms in the history of human art and spiritual wealth created by human beings. Two different arts can express different spiritual contents of human beings, create different sense of form and give people different aesthetic enjoyment. They each have irreplaceable aesthetic value.
Imagery art
Image art works are not limited to the true reproduction of objective images, but the artist's subjective understanding and emotional infiltration account for more components. Artists often use exaggeration, deformation, reorganization and other techniques in this kind of works, or highlight structural characteristics, which do not conform to the proportion of objective objects and images, or emphasize that a certain color feeling changes the color relationship of objective objects and images; Or break the usual concept of time and space and create a fantasy. Therefore, such works are often incomprehensible at first sight and need to be interpreted by "experts". But once we understand it, we will realize that such works expand our visual range and enrich our aesthetic experience.
Therefore, figurative art is mainly realistic and rational in its form of expression. Later, with the continuous refinement of realistic technology and the wide application of modern technologies such as cameras, people found that there was not much potential to express things by realistic means. Later, artists put more emphasis on the expression of inner world and objective world, thus forming intentional art.