Comparing Two Paintings

I wanted to discuss and compare two paintings that my girlfriend has done. At the moment I cannot think of a way to show you them because she does not want them out on the Internet where the image could be stolen. I will describe them. The first is a painting of an alligator smashing a violin, just the head of the alligator and the violin smashing into a bunch of pieces.  The style is realistic looking. The second painting is a mix of abstract ideas and concrete images. It has a really cool and colorful background using a bunch of different methods for applying the paint. For the actual image she has a bunch of animal figures based on cave paintings. When I saw both of these paintings side by side something interesting that I thought of was bipolar quality of these two paintings. The alligator one is painted to look realist. You can see the weight and you could imagine it in a 3D space very easily, but it is smashing a violin. This is not something that happens in real life. It is realism in a fiction setting. The other painting is not very realistic looking with all the crazy colors and abstract shapes, the cave painting of the animal figures looks like it could be something that is on a cave somewhere in the real world. One painting is realistic with a fictional scene and the other is abstract looking but with a scene that looks like it could be realistic.