Monday, August 25, 2014

The Truth About Figurative And Genre Art

By Deanne Shepard


The world is full of so many beautiful things that most human beings take for granted. The modern generation seem to have to juggle to many different things all at once which is why they rarely have the time to stop and take a moment to appreciate the wonderful spread of nature before them. Some even only acknowledge it if it was already sitting inches away from their faces.

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.

Dabbling in the arts allow one to also divert the attention away from the troubles that one is constantly facing. The best way to avoid stress and depression is to busy yourself with something else so as to allow your mind to recall it less. It even allows you to forget the pain that you are experiencing as of the moment.

It also makes you feel good about yourself. Engaging in something beautiful will trigger the brain to release feel good chemicals that make you instantly feel better about everything. It allows you to get away from stress, reduces the negativity and increases the positivity. Becoming a master at a particular hobby makes it such a sweet achievement.

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.

Since the discovery of such benefits, majority of the public today has renewed a certain interest of learning the arts. There is a wide array of styles to choose from, one of which is the genre art. This shows people in motion, ordinary citizens carrying out ordinary tasks. They are often depicted as being at home, in the marketplace, or doing some sort of laborious work.

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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