Jan Matulka

Czech/American
(1890–1972)

Untitled Abstraction
circa 1930

Gouache on board
22 x 16 x 1.5 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2000.46

• 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)."
• figure
• geometric figures - Definite geometric forms or shapes.