Phil Dikes

American
(1906–1990)

Share Objects
1969

Watercolor and charcoal on board
22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.1633

• 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)."
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