Representational Art & Non-Representational Art

Nowadays, there are many people feel they are creative people and really into art. Indeed, as you can see in Art Museum, also are there many beautiful paintings. But, do you really know what art is? What are those paintings being called? And what is the difference one painting to another paintings? Here, I will talk more about it.

There are 2 types of art in painting, they are representational art and non-representational art. Representational art used to describe a work of art, means that the work depicts something easily recognized by most people or resemble the object in artistic way. People usually consider this art as figurative art. On the other hand, non-representational art has no resemblance to any real object. It maybe just geometric shapes or bands of color. There is no identifiable objects or people inside the paintings. It's more like an abstract art.

Painting 1. Representational Art




Painting 2. Non-representational Art


I believe you can find the difference between these paintings that being attached. Like I said, in painting 1 you're be able to recognize the objects inside the painting, such as an eagle is flying, there are some plants, it looks like in dessert, and look at the sky! We all understand what the painter is trying to say to us in this painting, whereas in picture 2, we dont. There are only variety of some color, and some geometric shapes that these all make us not to be able to think what this painting is all about. That's why for this non-representational art painting is also being called as an abstract art.