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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:08 pm
by odysseus
Walker:
Abstract art does not exist as a representation of reality.
Not on closer inspection, for without altogether a "reference" then it is not an abstraction OF something. Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie is, after all, OF that place in New York.
Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:17 pm
by Walker
odysseus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:08 pm
Walker:
Abstract art does not exist as a representation of reality.
Not on closer inspection, for without altogether a "reference" then it is not an abstraction OF something. Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie is, after all, OF that place in New York.
Just as a name, not as a visual representation.
Without the title you might see Pac Man Boogie Woogie.
Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:18 pm
by Greta
Walker wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:36 pm
Abstract art does not exist as a representation of reality.
Abstract art exists as reality, as an entity in and of itself.
I see that more as the nexus between abstract art and design.
Abstraction of a subject is often done to more faithfully represent reality, to capture nuances and hidden truth not revealed by realism.
Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 9:39 pm
by odysseus
Walker
odysseus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:08 pm
Walker:
Abstract art does not exist as a representation of reality.
Not on closer inspection, for without altogether a "reference" then it is not an abstraction OF something. Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie is, after all, OF that place in New York.
Just as a name, not as a visual representation.
Without the title you might see Pac Man Boogie Woogie.
Then, you could say the same about the "name" New York itself, that it fails to truly designate.
Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:19 pm
by Walker
That's why it's an entity unto itself.