Abstract
The physical realities of painting are limited to rhythmic movements of line and inter-relations of areas of color on a flat surface—the rest is illusion. The grand rhythm of a design is a reality; the depicted scene is not.This may be the explanation of the complete satisfaction which many find in abstract or non-objective painting. Their real world is about them, to see and experience at first hand; they desire no pictorial illusions of it. As part of that real world however, they recognize color and design and the inventive genius of the artist. When these are combined to give life to a rectangle of canvas within a frame, a new object—a totally real object—has come into existence for the decoration of a wall. Its freedom from illusion, its concentration on the great realities of rhythm and color relations, become for them the source of a greater esthetic delight than an imitation of nature.
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