David Dornan

American, b. 1954

Untitled
1985

Acrylic on paper
52.375 x 37.25 x 1 in.
Gift of The Phillips Collection
1999.65

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• black
• blue
• brown
• geometric
• geometric abstraction
• gestural
• light green - UCL (Universal Color Language) standard color name identifying a range of green colors.
• Parallelograms - Sources:
  - Hammond Barnhart dict. sci.
• purple
• rectangles
• red
• white