Is abstract art an abstract representation of real objects/processes or a "realistic" representation of abstract objects/processes? Almost no one will consider the latter type of art abstract. Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus realistically and everybody looking at it forgets that Venus is something abstract.
The blue thing below is a painting of mine which I named "The Birth of Square Numbers from the Triangular Numbers". If you have problems seeing the square numbers (1, 4, 9 and 16), then count the white triangles (each one of which is marked by a red dot) between any three blue circles. If you have problems seeing the triangular numbers (3, 6, 10 and 15), you are probably blind.
The painting makes easy to see some abstract things.
4=1+1+2 and 9=1+1+2+2+3.
In fact, for any natural number n the corresponding square number
n^2=1+1+2+2+...+(n-1)+(n-1)+n
Therefore, you can easily see that the n-th square number is the sum of the n-th and (n-1)-th triangular numbers. Does this make my painting abstract or not?
The blue thing below is a painting of mine which I named "The Birth of Square Numbers from the Triangular Numbers". If you have problems seeing the square numbers (1, 4, 9 and 16), then count the white triangles (each one of which is marked by a red dot) between any three blue circles. If you have problems seeing the triangular numbers (3, 6, 10 and 15), you are probably blind.
The painting makes easy to see some abstract things.
4=1+1+2 and 9=1+1+2+2+3.
In fact, for any natural number n the corresponding square number
n^2=1+1+2+2+...+(n-1)+(n-1)+n
Therefore, you can easily see that the n-th square number is the sum of the n-th and (n-1)-th triangular numbers. Does this make my painting abstract or not?
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