semi realistic paintings are near to be realistic paintings
It means it has no recognizable subject.
"Subjects."
representational
Semi-abstract pertains to a type of art where the subject stays recognizable even though the forms are derived from abstract art. Abstract shapes including cubes are used in the paintings or sculptures but you can tell what the subject is.
Two kinds of texture in art are real or actual texture and simulated or representational texture.
representational art
representational art
It means it has no recognizable subject.
"Subjects."
representational
Semi-abstract pertains to a type of art where the subject stays recognizable even though the forms are derived from abstract art. Abstract shapes including cubes are used in the paintings or sculptures but you can tell what the subject is.
They are basically interchangeable terms.
Representational
Representational art consists of pictures that depict some recognizable thing or scene. It includes portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. It is includes both realist art, which attempts to reproduce the actual appearance of the things depicted, or an idealization thereof, and expressionist art, which depicts recognizable things, but in a way that incorporates an emotional reaction to them, without attempting literal reproduction of their appearance. Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and Munch's "The Scream" are both representational, the one realistic, the other expressionistic. Representational art contrasts with abstract art.
No. A still life does not, a non-representational painting does not.
Abstract art. Pictures that do not look like anything in particular.
Abstract art. Pictures that do not look like anything in particular.