[EDITED] Intro to Abstraction (Dixon)

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I think you can take anything, really, and add a story. Even with just colors or blobs, you can come up with a story. With a technical drawing, you can create the idea that the viewer has gained powers that let them see things in different way. There are stories to be found everywhere.

Figuration: a representation of something that is recognizable.

Abstraction: changing something (like blurring, zooming, etc) so that it becomes UNrecognizable.

Of course, with the images of whole eyes, it is easy to recognize that particular part of the body. Although I feel like with the zoomed-in images, I can more easily weave together a story of lost worlds in space with alien landscapes than I can make a story for an image of a full eye. But, like my renewed thought on narration, you can find narrative anywhere and everywhere if you just look/think hard enough.

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Narrative art provides inspiration for stories and tales. When you look at a narrative piece, you can make up a fictitious story about what is shown.

Sakimichan (DeviantArt), Digital Painting, Spare Some Change, M'am?, Jan. 3 2014.

Non-narrative art, for me, is purely technical or abstract to the point that even trying to think of a story makes the brain hurt. It reads as flat.

Taylorweaved (DeviantArt), graphite, Anatomical Drawing, March 6 2012

It is true that you can probably make up a story about any piece of art no matter how abstract. Colors can translate into different emotions and images for each person. However, I, personally, don't think of studies or academic/technical art as narrative.