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Why Abstract Figurative Art?

Abstract figurative art is a way for artist to express the human form without an absolute whole. Colors, lines and shapes can reconfigure our perception of the human form without the lines of realism to guide us. As humans our own ideal beauty could easily be represented within a human form. Figurative art intends to create artwork that focuses solely on the human body as art. Abstraction has allowed us to reconfigure and challenge the realistic figure, replacing the guideline with freeform.

Abstract figurative art is a way for an artist to express the human form without the need for the form as absolute. The observer is meant to perceive the whole through colors and lines without a strict guideline of realism. Both figurative and abstract art are popular choices among artist and enthusiasts. The figure itself may rest within our own ideal beauty, imitating life and our normal perception of what we call beautiful. Abstract is the essence, the idea that colors, lines and shape can express beauty without an object being absolute. Together abstract figurative art explores the form without limitations. Artist are able to pose, combine, change and paint the figure as there eye sees fit. The attraction of figurative art combined with the challenge of abstraction is why figurative art has become popular. The symbols, parts and shapes of the human body can be easily reconfigured to represent ideas and lead the eye in ways that a simpler line or form could not. Why do artist choose abstract figurative as a style? We each intend to draw upon our own creative juices and some artist find that when they put the charcoal to their sketchpad, that the abstract human form will naturally fill their paper and so to themselves with further ambitions to create art.

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Abstract Nude Painting Demonstration by Thai Artist - Paisun