And they weren’t easy times for the general public, because not long after that the recognizable image was shattered into thousands of fragments. Shortly after, with the first non-representational painting, abstract art was born. With that birth the mother, realistic art, was declared more or less deceased, and - if not dead - at least very sinful. This marked the beginning of a time full of discord and strife. Opposing camps within the general public, camps of opposing artists, and camps of opposing art critics.

In the wake of all this squabbling a third mayor art-form began to blossom: neither completely abstract, nor fully realistic. Perhaps this school should be called figural (from the Latin figuralis): a reasonably recognizable image in a often quite non-representational world, mostly imbued with a decorative atmosphere.