@transgenderer to expand on the stylisation thing w/o reblogging the entire reply chain:
art theory lacks a specific term for the kind of stylisation you're referring to here bc it's precisely the terminology of style that usually covers what you recognise as stylisation-without-abstraction. everything from mannerist paintings to javanese leather puppets technically falls under the definition of figurative art, and it's (implicitly) the manner in which they depart from naturalism that allows for the definition of separate styles—whence the usage of 'stylisation' to mean decorative generalisation, even though naturalism is itself an 'art style'
there's also the distinction between deliberate generalisation and generalisation that emerges due to ignorance and/or medium constraints. romanesque sculpture is 'stylised', deliberately to the extent mediaeval artists consciously chose which body parts/figures/what-have-you to emphasise, yet it clearly strived toward a naturalist standard without ever quite getting it right (unlike the consciously generalising styles of the early middle ages, like the animal style). i think this also probably applies to javanese puppets, but not to (for example) the mesoamerican codexes or ancient egyptian art, both of whom seem to have been deliberately 'stylised'—and then there's the fact what originally began as unintentional generalisation (for the lack of a better term) often becomes deliberate, decorative generalisation once the original template is emulated by later artists...
obv the biggest problem with this definition of 'stylisation' is that it (still) compares figurative art against an imaginary natural standard, which is untenable both because what constitutes a 'natural standard' is subjective (the pseudo-classicising naturalism of romanesque is no photorealism!) and because it leaves little space for deliberate generalisation. if i had to propose a term for non-abstracted, non-naturalist figurative art, it would probably be 'generalising figurativism' or 'template figurativism'. 'reductive figurativism' could probably also work, though the etymology might be a little opaque—the idea is that an object is being reduced to an agreed-upon template. take ur pick!
Figurative Portraiture | Art on 2 Maxis Meshes & 1 Custom Mesh
I am subjecting you to my unique taste in portrait art. Whether it'll be well-received or not is unclear.
Figurative art: sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. Any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure.
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All can be found in Buy Mode > Decorative > Wall Hangings.
10 recolours on Basegame's The Lady On Red - §180
5 recolours on Nightlife's Grilled Cheese - §850 [Nightlife Required]
and 4 recolours on 2 Tile Painting by Shoukeir - §512 [Mesh Is Included]
Download the originals from Shoukeir here if you wish.
The files are foldered based on what mesh they're on. They are named after the artists and are numbered. A matching swatch is included to help with navigation of the files :)
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The artists: Anna Kincaide, Brian Viveros, Danny O'Connor, Dan Quintana, Manuel Nanouris, Pavan Cheppalli, and Yossi Kotler. I own none of their work and do not profit from sharing these!
Also to Shoukeir for the custom painting mesh. Find all of their archived saved work here.