My understanding, your understanding?

As the Artistry blog is about showcasing artists and their art, be it handcrafted pieces or paintings. I took some time and browsed through some blogs here in WordPress that are related to my beat to get some sense of how other bloggers work, and an interesting post on a blog called Word & Music (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/80645609 )   caught my eye. The writer of the blog is Debbidbu who in his first blog post says he’s over 50 years old, I bet you can also imagine the experience he has. The blog is not about art per se, it is about book and movie reviews, the television show “frequent rants” and current events concerning culture topic, personal stories, musings on life and love. This interesting post I saw is dated 17 July 2019 and the heading is “A word about abstract art” and you can also find the full post on this link: https://debrichard.com/2019/07/17/a-word-about-abstract-art/.

This piece caught my eye because it is a bit off from his usual beat, its focus is on art, precisely “abstract art”. In the post, he is providing clarity of what “abstract art” is and how to identify it from representational art. In the post, he goes on about how on google mostly when one searches for abstract art some representational art images appear. He then provides a meaning of what abstract art is, in which he took on the glossary of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York which states abstract art as “A term that is generally used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature.”  He further explains “That means that abstract art is not a picture of anything–it can’t be tied to a representation of any recognizable object, animal, or person.” I believe that the explanation of the term he provided is understandable, one can understand it nicely, it is not complicated.

 This post pushed me to know the meaning of the word ‘abstract’ because I got a bit confused. When I googled the term abstract, this definition appeared “existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence”. I then went on google and searched ‘abstract art’ and that is then when I realized that I did not know much about art and indeed google does have images that are not abstract, but then again if abstract art is based on an artist’s imagination. An artist can imagine a person and that is abstract, well for me. If one could not have an imagination of a person, I don’t believe dolls would be available but then again that is a subjective matter. I guess only artists can only tell me that. My main point here is that maybe google is not showing representational images of art but abstract ones. I make my point because of image six: Composition 8, Vasily Kandinsky (1923), the painting has shapes, the one I can easily identify is the triangle and I believe it can be tied to reality but because he imagined it, it is abstract.

He also touches on what I feel like is an important point, that after the emergence of camera artists did not feel compelled to show something recognizable in their work and just focus on color, line, form, and texture. Basically they got the freedom to run wild with their imagination and the camera was left to capture the recognizable for preservation of history. That is not to say artists stop representational art. Knowing that the article would not be complete without the visuals because the post was is about art he, towards the end of the post attached images.

The images he provided showed what he means about representational and abstract. The images are clearly label and have a brief explanation. I like that he mentioned representational art and examples of what representational is about. I feel like it provided the differences between representational and abstract art. For me, the post is well focused, and I would not have written it any better. Also, I like the fact that he put images to show representational art and the abstract ones. On representational images, he put image three: three musicians, Pablo Picasso (1921), this image one would have mistaken it to be abstract as he also states that, but he clarifies that it is not. I love that he also put images and classified them abstract and others representational and with stories behind the painting- the brief description. On the image parts, I would have loved to have seen some 21st-century paintings of abstract and representational art.

Nevertheless the post is very effective for me. I has gained so much knowledge about the two different kinds of art. What I have noticed on the knowledge that I gained from the post I believe I can be able to differentiate between abstract art and representational art.The post is well focused, and I would not have written it any better.

Below I have images that I believe are abstract and ones I believe are representational that I found myself and also ones I took from Debbidbu post of examples of abstract and representational art images. You, the reader can show me in the comment section your representational and abstract images.