How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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odysseus
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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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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.
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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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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.
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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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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.
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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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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.
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Re: How would you distinguish art from abstract art?

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That's why it's an entity unto itself.
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