There is No Abstract Art

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” - Pablo Picasso

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of Lady Sunderland, (details), (1786), by Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 – 1792), oil on canvas, 238.5 cm (93.8 in) x 147.5 cm (58 in), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

[constanzarte]

The sleeping beauty, by John Collier.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1655 Francisco de Zurbarán - Portrait of the 8th Duke of Medinaceli

(Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli)

[classic-art-favourites]

Alida Christina Assink by Jan Adam Kruseman, 1833.

[detailsofpaintings]

Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625

[pintoras]

Antonietta Brandeis (Czech, 1848-1926): Florence, a View of Palazzo Vecchio from the Boboli Gardens (via Dorotheum)

[classicdavinci]

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) - Open Door on a Garden. 1934.

[simena]

ROMEO BONOMELLI - Festival

[beatricecenci]

Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781-1858)

Katerina Botsari

[history-of-fashion]

1628 Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy - Portrait of a man

(Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)

[simena]

JEAN-AUGUSTIN FRANQUELIN (detail)

[mademoiselle-margo]

Franz Winterhalter - Portrait of a young lady, detail; edited by me

[random-brushstrokes]

Victor Marec (French, 1862-1920) - Arranging Flowers

[random-brushstrokes]

Julius LeBlanc Stewart - Yachting the Mediterranean (1896)

[artschoolglasses]

Right Eye of Miss Peggy Hawthorne, English, 1793

From the Cincinnati Art Museum

[simena]

Joseph Farquharson