Scottie Aguon

Mr. Wonenberg
AR 135
25 February 2015
Naturalism and Idealism
Naturalism: the skillful representation of the visual image, forms, and proportions as seen in
nature with an illusion of volume and three dimensional spaces.
Idealism: an artistic theory in which the world is not reproduced as it is but as it should be. All
flaws, accidents, and incongruities of the visual world are connected.
The focus of naturalism in art is creating the most perfect form of a figure. For example
when drawing the likeness of a person, the drawing will highlight the most perfect features of the
person/figure (i.e. flawless hair and beautiful face). An actual example would the Mona Lisa,
which is probably the most well-known painting in the world, which bares perfect symmetries
and supposedly the most perfect smile. On the other hand idealism focuses on every aspect of the
figure. Any perfects, imperfects, flaws, oddities, and kinks. For example when drawing the
likeness of a person, the drawing will focus on every aspect of the figure (not so flawless hair
and an imperfect face). Another example would be art a forest which portrays both its beauty and
its savagery.