Abstract Painting

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Abstract Painting

William Witt
(1921 - 2013)
artist

Object Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on paper

Date

1978

Dimensions

355.6 x 279.4 mm (Sheet)

Credit

Gift of Jeffrey Perry, 2016

Accession Number

2016.1.43

  • Abstract (fine arts style) - Refers to art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature. In the strictest sense, the term refers to 20th-century Western painting, sculpture, or graphic art that does not include forms that represent objects from the visible world. The term is sometimes applied to art in which natural forms are only simplified or changed in their representation, but not eliminated entirely. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, use "abstraction."

 

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