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Value |
| @id | the:RepresentationAbstractionTension |
| 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 | The productive interplay within a single work between recognizable depiction and abstract pictorial structure, where the viewer oscillates between reading subject matter and reading formal elements. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Representation-abstraction tension |
| scope note | Distinct from perceptual oscillation in emphasizing the sustained tension rather than the switching between states. |
| skos:altLabel | Figuration-abstraction tension |
| skos:exactMatch | Semi-abstract |