River Gold

This was taken looking into a water stream. The colors were just lovely and need to be captured. Love the pattern that the the different pieces and... more

by Marcia Lee Jones

Title

River Gold

Artist

Marcia Lee Jones

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

This was taken looking into a water stream. The colors were just lovely and need to be captured. Love the pattern that the the different pieces and sizes created and how the light hit the water.
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.

Both geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction are often totally abstract. Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis-a-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted.

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January 12th, 2013