Claude Monet 1840-1926 Haystacks on a Foggy Morning1891
France Oil on canvas
form and content
Claude Monet 1840-1926 Haystacks on a Foggy Morning1891
France Oil on canvas
form and content
Claude Monet 1840-1926 Haystacks on a Foggy Morning1891 France Oil on canvas |
Claude Monet 1840-1926 Haystack at Sunrise Near Giverny 1891 France Oil on canvas 29 1/2 x 37 in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Monet, Claude Rouen Cathedral (Dawn) 1894 |
Monet, Claude Rouen Cathedral (Dull Dawn) 1894 |
Monet, Claude Rouen Cathedral (Harmony in Blue) 1894 |
Monet, Claude Rouen Cathedral (Harmony in Full Sunlight) 1894 |
¹ab.stract adj [ML abstractus, fr. L, pp. of abstrahere to drag away, fr. abs-, ab- + trahere to pull, draw] (14c)
1 a: disassociated from any specific instance <~ entity> b: difficult to understand: abstruse <~ problems> c: insufficiently factual: formal <possessed only an ~ right>
2: expressing a quality apart from an object <the word poem is concrete, poetry is ~>
3 a: dealing with a subject in its abstract aspects: theoretical <~ science> b: impersonal, detached <the ~ compassion of a surgeon --Time>
4: having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content <~ painting> -- ab.stract.ly adv -- ab.stract.ness n²ab.stract n [ME, fr. L abstractus] (15c)
1: a summary of points (as of a writing) usu. presented in skeletal form; also: something that summarizes or concentrates the essentials of a larger thing or several things
2: an abstract thing or state
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 Form and Content ethnocentricism abstraction |
Title: Commememorative Head of an Oba, collected by Picasso in 1944 Date: Mid 19th Cen Original Location: Benin, Nigeria. Current Location: Musee Picasso, Paris |
Abstract Art (nonobjective or nonrepresentational)
Willem de Kooning. Portrait of a Woman. 1940 |
Willem de Kooning Woman, 1943 Oil on board, 23 1/4 x 23 1/16 in. |
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) Woman IV 1952, |
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Woman 1954, oil on paper,
25 3/4 in. by 19 5/8 in.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln,
F. M. Hall Collection
1955.H-362
 Oil on canvas, 1950; 206.2 x 257.3 cm Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., 1952.1 |
Willem de Kooning. Composition, 1955. Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas, 79 1/8 x 69 1/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. |
Thomas Hart Benton. Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley.1934 oil and tempera on canvas |
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Jackson Pollock. Going West. 1934 |
Jackson Pollock. Birth. 1938 oil on canvas mounted on plywood. 46"x22" |
Norman Rockwell. Abstract and Concrete. 1962 |
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) 1950 oil on canvas 8'x17' |
Mark Eanes, September Song, oil on canvas 48"x48" |
Jian Wu, Brazil Impression No. 2, oil on canvas 20" x 24" |