September 2020
Beginner to intermediate
276 pages
7h 3m
English
A bit of advice, don’t copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
—Paul Gauguin
Abstraction is a contentious topic among visual artists and consumers of art, and especially photographic art. It is an act of purposeful omission—leaving something out, whether literal or contextual, knowingly and deliberately. By preventing the viewer from recognizing specific objects, other visual properties, such as lines, shapes, patterns, and textures, gain in prominence or even become the subject.

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