The Truth About Figurative And Genre Art

By Deanne Shepard


The world abounds with all sorts of beautiful things. Some of them are just so obviously and strikingly beautiful that they are seen right away. There are also those that tend to hide their beauty, so it would take a trained eye to get past behind the commonplace things and see the hidden pulchritude from within. Indeed, different people have different views on beauty, and they have different preferences as a result.

There are many kinds of beauty. There are those who are so glaringly obvious that they do not have any choice left. There are also those who hide, which is why only trained eyes can see them. It is found everywhere. It is found in people and animals. It is found in plants and other natural things. It is also found in man made structures, especially in figurative and genre art masterpieces and great works.

There is more to art than aesthetic reasons. Recent studies even prove that getting into your creative side can reap loads of health benefits. All kinds of the said endeavor, from music, dancing, writing, and an appreciation for the visual arts can help you take care of your health more. These worthwhile abilities are found to have quite an impact on your ability to heal yourself.

For starters, the arts seem to fill in a large gap within you that you never even knew existed. When you have something to busy yourself with, you will have lesser time to think of anything else. Some cancer patients who are subjected to this experimentation even forgot about the pain brought about by chemotherapy just because they were so absorbed in the things they have been doing.

It helps you break free from all negativity. If you are in the pursuit of creating beautiful things, there is simply no room to be negative. It takes only all positive thoughts, actions, and feelings to channel the energy to create a work of art that is worthy of acclaimed praises.

Art therapies are helping so many patients as of the present, especially those who are suffering from some sort of mental illness. It provides them with a release for the pent up emotions that are bottled up within their system. It also provides an avenue for them top share their untold stories, the secrets they have tucked deep within due to a traumatic experience. It is also believed that a person can perceive different things by looking at a simple pattern, as proved by the Rorschach inkblot test.

The arts and humanities encompass a very broad field. This allows one to choose a certain specialization with which he can focus on. More and more people are developing a certain interest upon figurative paintings. These are also called representational arts because they are used to represent real events.

One that is somewhat similar to this is the figurative art. It also depicts scenes, especially those that have basis upon reality. The reason they are called representational works is because the represent a facet of life that actually happens.

These two are in direct contrast with the abstract ones. Modern arts often have that touch of abstraction in them, whereas the aforementioned genres made it big during the older periods. Nonetheless, each art genre can bring about more or less the same benefits.




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