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Learning To Appreciate Abstract And Semi Abstract Art By Art Gib When a person strolls through a museum, he is usually drawn to one style of painting or another. It's not that he doesn't "like," say, impressionist works: he simply may find that his heart and soul are better touched by Picasso rather than Monet and that his brain can understand one master's work better than the other. When choosing art for your home or office, you may be limiting yourself because you have not allowed yourself to learn to appreciate and understand a style that doesn't sit naturally with you. If you struggle with abstract and semi abstract art, here are some ways to help you grasp its beauty. Abstract and semi abstract art became popular around the turn into the 20th century, when artists began to concentrate more on the creative process involved in painting than on the accuracy of the product itself. Pure abstract works have no resemblance to reality whatsoever and viewers are put in the position of deciding what the paintings look like to them as individuals. Semi abstract paintings portray recognizable objects, but they are not represented as a mirror image of conventional reality. Great masters such as Monet used abstract techniques, of course, but the representation of his objects was always clear nevertheless. Semi abstract may be partly representational but will focus heavily on the abstract. A person who, when she walks into a gallery of abstract art, immediately turns herself off from striving to understand what she is seeing is often the type of person who operates mainly from the left side of her brain. Her dominant logic simply won't allow her to relax and allow her to use her imagination to envision an alternate reality. It requires "work" for her to interpret what she is seeing and she won't take the time to try. If this sounds familiar, there is one sure way to open up to new sensory experiences through the appreciation of semi abstract art. Give yourself the time to let the right side of your brain take over for a little while. This means you'll need to sit in a gallery for longer than 5 minutes! After a certain length of time, your left brain will get tired of protesting, you will relax, and the "feeling" side of your brain can get to work. -- Stop trying to figure out "what it is." Abstract and semi abstract are meant to hit you in the gut in an emotional way. Concentrate instead on what the colors are doing, the shapes that you see, and the meaning that only you can find in it. Once the pressure is off about determining "what it is," your subconscious can take over and you will be observing on a much deeper plane. Semi abstract art is often the style of choice for those who remain perplexed by pure abstraction because it still has a measure of "reality" and representation in it. When you take the time to study different artists using the technique mentioned above, you just may find your perceptions changing and you will be more open to enjoying and even loving a broader range of art. About the author The Sam Fischer (http://www.samfischer.net) art gallery is your source for beautiful and original abstract and semi-abstract art. Art Gib is a freelance writer. from http://www.FreeArticlesAndContent.com |