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Human figure art is one of the most demanding genres, precisely because we all have a working knowledge of what a human looks like. If it looks wrong, then it probably is wrong, because that's how we live our daily lives, by our first impressions. And this is never more the case than when we are looking at other people, be it in person or via a photograph or painting. So there is little or no room for error in figurative art Therein lays the lure and the challenge of working on human figure paintings.
We are drawn by the challenge; all artists take on the human figure at some stage of their careers, and most give up. Not because they are not able, but mainly because they are not human figure artists.
Human figure artists or figurative artists as they are commonly known are a breed unto themselves. Never happy, always searching for that pose or gesture or look that will epiphanise a common everyday scene.( Just watch that French film 'The Beautiful Troublemaker'). One such painting could make them; fortunately for us those elusive works, are rarer and rarer to come by in a contemporary setting.
The reason I say fortunately is because, if you haven't already noticed, we are all constantly bombarded by an array of images each day, every day, all day. It's the world we live in. We have television, DVDs, computers, blackberries al infinitum, images coming at us from every conceivable angle, making it increasingly hard to be alone with our thoughts. And all good art can only emerge from a place of aloneness. The genesis of a good painting can be born years previously. In the human figure realm, it could be something someone did, or said or the way they said it that struck a chord on some level, and then those thoughts were left to rest, gestating, only to be reborn again under the correct conditions.
Of course countless possible paintings are left to die in the depths of the mind, but some do emerge and amongst those maybe one or two might be worth keeping. When the inner critic is silenced and censorship is thrown to the wind, the best ones arrive. When the painting is complete the battle of confidence begins and the long climb to self-belief in the work, no matter what the outer critics throw at you. I'm thinking of the work of Francis Bacon as I write this, the lasting and compelling, sometimes disturbing images he produced and you would do well to check out.
There are a lot of great human figure artists out there. The great ones always add something new to the human conversation with itself, and leave you looking at the world and the people in it a little differently each time.
Human figure art is one of the most demanding genres, precisely because we all have a working knowledge of what a human looks like. If it looks wrong, then it probably is wrong, because that's how we live our daily lives, by our first impressions. And this is never more the case than when we are looking at other people, be it in person or via a photograph or painting. There is little or no room for error in figurative art Therein lays the lure and the challenge of working on human figure paintings.
We are drawn by the challenge; all artists take on the human figure at some stage of their careers, and most give up. Not because they are not able, but mainly because they are not human figure artists.
Human figure artists or figurative artists as they are commonly known are a breed unto themselves. Never happy, always searching for that pose or gesture or look that will epiphanise a common everyday scene.( Just watch that French film 'The Beautiful Troublemaker'). One such painting could make them; fortunately for us those elusive works, are rarer and rarer to come by in a contemporary setting.
The reason I say fortunately is because, if you haven't already noticed, we are all constantly bombarded by an array of images each day, every day, all day. It's the world we live in. We have television, DVDs, computers, blackberries al infinitum, images coming at us from every conceivable angle, making it increasingly hard to be alone with our thoughts. And all good more info art can only emerge from a place of aloneness. The genesis of a good painting can be born years previously. In the human figure realm, it could be something someone did, or said or the way they said it that struck a chord on some level, and then those thoughts were left to rest, gestating, only to be reborn again under the correct conditions.
Of course countless possible paintings are left to die in the depths of the mind, but some do emerge and amongst those maybe one or two might be worth keeping. The best ones arrive when the inner critic is silenced and censorship is thrown to the wind. When the painting is complete the battle of confidence begins and the long climb to self-belief in the work, no matter what the outer critics throw at you. I'm thinking of the work of Francis Bacon as I write this, the lasting and compelling, sometimes disturbing images he produced and you would do well to check out.
There are a lot of great human figure artists out there. The great ones always add something new to the human conversation with itself, and leave you looking at the world and the people in it a little differently each time.
Human figure art is one of the most demanding genres, precisely because we all have a working knowledge of what a human looks like. Human figure art is one of the most demanding genres, precisely because we all have a working knowledge of what a human looks like. Abstract art is the most free form of fine art and as long as you can get an artist who can produce quality work with it and not just anyone then the artist is bound to get rave and positive reviews.
This kind of fine art paintings involves both abstract art and figurative art."Fine art paintings" with their different forms are great ways to express how someone feels.