Abstraction (11)

Abstraction: A visual representation that may have little resemblance to the real world. Abstraction can occur through a process of simplification or distortion in an attempt to communicate an essential aspect of a form or concept.


This is Picasso's "Women of Avignon". These women have been distorted and simplified according to Picasso's purpose. All the lines as well as the colors of these women have been changed and simplified. The women are more blocky than in real life. The different planes of the body have been simplified into sections for both colors and shape.


This is a sculpture of a bird that is abstracted. The bird has been simplified in order to create it with metal as well as the preference of the artist. It is abstracted enough to know this is not what the bird looks like exactly but that the idea of the composition came from a resource.