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| @id | the:PerceptualAbstraction |
| type | Art, Art criticism, Art history, Concept, contextual analysis, Resource, Visual Analysis, Visual Arts |
| broader | Conceptual Analysis, Criticism, Interpretation, Representational-abstract spectrum, visual art term |
| definition | An approach to painting that abstracts visual experience based on how perception actually operates, emphasizing optical phenomena over descriptive representation while retaining ties to observed reality. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Perceptual abstraction |
| narrower | Painting masses before objects |
| scope note | Distinguishes work that departs from plein-air realism toward analytical treatment of perception without fully abandoning representation. |
| skos:altLabel | Perceptual modernism |
| skos:exactMatch | Perceptual_abstraction |