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The Truth About Figurative And Genre Art

By Deanne Shepard


The whole world just abounds with beauty that just remains undiscovered. After all, not all kinds of beauty tend to be obvious and leap right at you. There are those who take on a simple appearance at first, then slowly radiates when you get to see it for longer periods. Every single thing on earth has its own kind of beauty, and it takes different eyes to appreciate it.

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 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.

They also serve as good therapy. Patients with mental illness will benefit a lot from making them do artworks. This will provide an outlet for all the pent up emotions that they have been keeping inside for far too long. They can also use artworks as an avenue to share their stories and secrets that they have difficulties divulging out to others.

As there are so many facets of the arts, one can choose which one to engage in. As of the present, figurative and genre visuals are getting all the raves. Figurative art is often called representational, since it is artwork that is derived from real sources. Events in paintings may have happened in real life, and they could even have some historical basis.

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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