| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:PerceptualOscillation |
| 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 | A visual dynamic in which the viewer's perception alternates between recognizing representational content and experiencing abstract formal qualities within the same work. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Perceptual oscillation |
| scope note | Applies to works that deliberately sustain ambiguity between depiction and abstraction as a compositional strategy. |
| skos:altLabel | Representational-abstract oscillation |
| skos:exactMatch | Multistable_perception |