| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:OpticalAbstraction |
| type | rdfs:Resource, skos:Concept |
| broader | the:FormalAnalysis, the:visualArtTerm, the:Interpretation, the:Composition, the:OpticalCompositionStrategy |
| definition | A passage or zone in an otherwise representational painting where the behavior of light reduces objects to color, pattern, and gesture rather than legible description. The subject becomes the optical event rather than the depicted thing. |
| editorial note | Source: 20260309. Broader updated to OpticalCompositionStrategy. |
| inScheme | the:WatercolorCriticismScheme |
| label | Optical Abstraction |
| related | the:SelectiveEconomy, the:St.MarksBasilica_20260110, the:AcquaAlta, the:ImpermanenceTheme, the:ReflectiveSymmetry, the:OpticalReflectionField |
| scope note | In the St. Mark's painting, the foreground reflections constitute optical abstraction: the basilica and figures are reduced to vertical color signatures and broken strokes. |
| skos:altLabel | Light-driven Abstraction |