What is a representative art?

The term representative art suggests that works of art show something that most viewers can recognize from the real world. Realistic art largely dominated the history of visual art from prehistoric times to modern time. The opposite of representative art is unrepresentative art that does not have a realistic, recognizable object.

The examples of representative art are Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture David Michelangelo. These works are quite true and the artists were attentive to capture specific details of the human face and character. Although it was highly abstract, most of the work of Pablo Picasso was also representative. Eyes and noses may appear on the wrong part of the face in many Picasso paintings, but the human figure is still recognizable.

ART with recognizable object has always been a popular form, starting with cave images and small figures created by prehistoric people. Representative art was made in Egypt and hit the peak in StarovGreece, when the statues of human figures were valued for their great realism. The Romans continued in the Greek tradition of realistic art.

During the Middle Ages, art was still representative, but more abstract. Then, with the Renaissance period, realism came back to the forefront. During the Renaissance, the painting began to mature as an artistic form and one of the greatest achievements during this time was the theory of linear perspective - the system of rendering objects in a space that is based on the way the human eye sees. In the linear perspective, objects in the distance are smaller than the objects in the foreground and the lines are closer in the distance. The perspective allowed Renaissance artists to portray buildings with relative accuracy.

There is a remarkable exception from historical dominance of art with a recognized subject. Some Islamic calligraphy or decorative writing produced in the 15th century looks very similar to modern non -presented skillseating. Comparison of these calligraphic works with paintings of the 20th century Piet Mondrian would bring some remarkable similarities.

Modernism has made unrepresentative art popular in the 20th century, and unrepresentative art affected the peak with the abstract expressionist movement in the US at the end of the 40s. Abstract expressionists focused exclusively on line, shape and color and were not interested in displaying any of the real world. Perhaps the best example of this type of art was the work created by Jackson Pollock. After the color layer, he put the canvas on them on the floor of his studio and referred to the layer. In Pollock's paintings, there was not only any recognizable object, but there was no focus.