Richard Clayton Hicks

American

Space
circa 1930-1940

Oil on canvas
33 x 40.75 x 1.75 in.
Gift of Richard Hicks Broun and Sher Lisonbee
2000.51

• 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)."
• comets - An extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass and rock debris that travels around the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit; it generally developes a diffuse gaseous envelope and a long luminous tail when near the Sun.
• galaxies - Large groups or systems of stars, gas, and dust, held together by gravitation and matter, that are found throughout the universe.
• geometric
• green
• planets - Large natural objects that orbit a star or a stellar remnant. Planets are not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions, are not a brown dwarfs, and are bigger than an asteroid. Planets are large enough to have become round due to the force of their own gravity, and dominate the neighborhood around their orbit, and are thus distinguished from dwarf planets.
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