REPRESENTATION / ABSTRACTION
A variety of approaches spanning from photorealism to non-objective art. The more the subject is altered using emphasis, subordination, distortion and extraction, the more abstract it becomes. The extreme end of abstraction is totally non-representational or non-objective art.
HYPERREALISM ”The simulation of something which never really existed.”
–Jean Baudrillard An evolution from photorealism which emphasizes the details and minutia of a fictional subject. This genre borders on the edge of the surreal in how it creates a new reality for the viewer. Evan Penny Old Self, Portrait of the Artist as He Will (Not) Be #1, Variation of 4, 2010, silicone, pigment, hair, fabric, aluminum, 76x86x59 cm. Private Collection, Basel. © Evan Penny, 2012
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NON-OBJECTIVE The extreme of abstraction where the picture plane ceases to become a window, and instead the piece becomes an art object. A non-objective piece does not represent anything other than itself; this is why it also referred to as being non-representational.
Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue & Yellow.
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