Karen Kunc

American, b. 1952

Banyan
1989

Oil stick on paper
38.75 x 25.5 in. (98.425 x 64.77 cm)
Museum Purchase with the Dorothy Wanlass Endowment Fund
1991.7

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This object has the following keywords:

• 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)."
• biomorphic
• blue
• oval - Having a form or outline that is bounded by a smooth curve having no concave parts, longer along one axis and rounded at each end. It differs from an ellipsis in that it is not necessarily symmetric about its horizontal and vertical axes.
• red
• white
• yellow