Abstract and realistic techniques

July 13, 2011 - PRLog -- When we are shopping art online, we may found that most of the sites would devided the selling art in main categories such as abstract oil paintings or realistic and impressional paintings and so on. However, the difference between the techniques in abstract oil paitnings and realistic paitnings should not be absolutely. As oil paintings becomes interesting right where abstract and realistic painting meet. Realistic art are immersed with abstract aspects like color, composition, forms and texture – and abstract art that are really only abstract don’t mean anything to a human anymore. Good abstract oil painting always has some referral to our memory of sensory perception.

When you paint realistic paintings, you will need some abstract techniques so as to make good paintings. With an eye for color, composition and form, you can analyze your painting, gain some visual distance to it. That enables you to improve your oil painting. And in abstract oil painting, you also need to have some realistic painting techniques. The best abstract artists were who had a traditional training in realistic oil painting techniques.

In abstract oil paintings, there is no absolute ‘abstractness’ either. Even the square of Malevitsch makes some reference to some crystal shapes, to furniture, to things on earth.

When we creat abstract canvas art, there are always elements present that refer to reality, or, our experiences as sentient beings. "up" and "down" are general terms, but they have special meanings – "down"you expect to find a bottom, something solid, to stand on, and "up" you expect air, and some light. That would be a natural situation. It can be the other way around, however, then you have very different mood.

Every visual element – color, form, proportions – means something. For example,red is a fruit color, a color of passion, and blue is a sky-color, a distance-color. Painting a red sky creates drama. And painting blue food creates an alienated, distant and unnatural look.

Art becomes interesting where realistic and abstract painting are connected. Then realistic painting goes from: shaping things the way we think they exist to: re-creating reality in the way YOU saw and experienced it. And importing realistic elements in abstract painting enables you to give new meaning to the things you paint. Your subject may be material (a portrait, landscape or such) or immaterial (a mood, concept or feeling). But when you make to yourself this demand of meaning, that is: a referral to reality, that’s where equal, valueless colors, strokes and geometrical shapes turn into meaningful colors, forms and gestures.You might even give an outer appearance to things that didn’t yet have an outer appearance.

In abstract oil paintings, it does make a difference if you take a naturalistic subject and paint it in a new way, or if you paint really abstract and try to creat meaning. Fistly, you still work with an ‘outer’ reality, and when working really abstract, you directly use your body, and the way things feel in your body, as a referral, a medium that tells you what is real. I might be idealistic, and vague, but I believe this is where a new kind of reality is really formed. This kind of objectivity is what gives the real value of art.

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