One of my still life paintings hanging on a wall in Worcestershire.
Oil paint on paper – 20″ x 16″
Representation is the use of signs that
stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through
representation that people organize the world and reality through the
act of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic
constructions and express relations.
For many philosophers, both ancient and
modern, man is regarded as the “representational animal” or homo
symbolicum, the creature whose distinct character is the creation and
the manipulation of signs – things that “stand for” or “take the place
of” something else.
Representation (arts). (2012, February 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:45, March 7, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Representation_(arts)&oldid=475632185
My friends and clients are always
shocked when I suddenly present (in front of them) a ‘painting from
life’ – just because I appear to produce slap-dash imagery as my main
artistic process and thrust doesn’t mean I haven’t mastered the basic
fundamental skills of ‘traditional’ painting and drawing.
Artists and teachers have argued for
years that to fully understand the processes required in creating
non-representational art, a knowledge of basic representational tricks
is vital – to be able to imitate the real world is useful when trying to
turn your back on it.
Peter Bright (aka This Window)
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