abstraction

abstraction
decoration, illustration, and abstraction
02.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I was at the art students league tonight and overheard two gentlemen saying that the two worst words were decoration and illustration. I thought about it for a moment because this is an issue that comes up a great deal in discussions of painting, particularly in debates between abstraction and realism. Often the two terms […]

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