Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive.
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I have been a working artist for 20 years and have been painting since I was in grade school. I will never forget wondering off with my first sketch pad to the nearest "forest" and sitting down under a tree and sketching the imagery. The perspective and sounds, smells and incredible sense of solitude offered was so captivating ... I just continued pursuing it.
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