Styles

Kevin Rodas

EAP 91 class

October 5, 2015

Artistic World (Comparison essay)

                Art and its styles. Art has several drawing and painting styles. My favorites are realism and abstract. These styles are located on the two opposite ends of imagination level. For example; have you ever try to find meaning to an abstract painting? Or have you ever seen a realism and find the message of the painting? Well, these two art styles differ from each other on organization, shapes and colors, and finally but not last message given. The comparison of these two styles are going to help to understand several standard levels of realism and abstract.

                As stated above, organization is going to make a tremendous difference on the paintings. Organization has simple and common rules to follow when working with realism style. On the other hand, Organization is not going to be much of a problem when we are using abstract style. On realism there is a need to keep an order of working like, measurements, and common sense. First, planning how and where the objects go, as first, second or third stage. These stages will give the painting different structure as how far is the object from the painting angle. Later, comes the sketching, sharpen details and give color. Extreme details are going to be the main key on realism, due that the painting needs to have a real life look. And finally coloring. Coloring is going to show characteristics of a structure and alive. On the other hand, the abstract style can take place on any stage of the painting and can be changing while working in it. It can be done in different ways but, you need to make sure you are not just spreading paint on the board. Keep in mind that it needs a meaning and colors are really special keys to give secret meanings to the painting. All in all, realism style is going to be a lot more serious style than abstract, so there is a certain criteria to follow on colors. Just make sure they look really neat.

                Other difference between these two art styles is the coloring and details. In realism, details are the most important step. Due that it is what gives the understandable view of what is going on. Well shaped and strong details as shadows and light reflection on a painting can turn it from 2D to a 3D type of painting. Also, colors will show a realistic perspective on the painting, showing the intensity of light or darkness. On the contrary, we have abstract style with the simplest characteristics on sketching and working on them. On abstract style the main key element is the coloring. Colors will give the painting a secret meaning and characteristics to stabilize the elements as well as balance on the board. So there is a meaning to add colors and details to a painting. It is not just about giving a few shadows or plain colors. There is everything with a meaning and a reason to do it.

                Finally, we are going to talk about meaning projected from a realistic and abstract paintings. In this paragraph the abstract style is going to take a strong place because, on abstract work the meaning is all it has to make it Art. Abstract style is just not paint spread on a board. It is what the shapes, location, and colors really mean. They are not just there with no meaning. It can mean an occasion, a song, a person, place or just feelings. But we also have realistic style. It is less about expanding the imagination, it is more about certain meaning and firm form of definition. Realism has classic coloring with common sense of life, which gives it a solid reflection of the object being painted.

In conclusion, abstract and realistic style are different to each other. The organization, decoration and meanings for a paint are going to lead to a master peace of work. Remember to always keep track of your work and keep in mind what you are trying to show other on your work; of course you don’t want to give a not clear message on realistic paintings. Don’t worry much about the meaning on abstract style in the end, a clear image is not supposed.