Photographic Naturalism and Abstract Art

Abstract

The dispute between photographic naturalism in art and abstract art may be likened to two soldiers engaged in single combat: there are vast armies behind both and a multitude of reasons why they should be facing each other. It would be an over-simplification, to continue the metaphor, to reduce all the reasons to the fact that one soldier is there, occupying a certain amount of ground, and that the other soldier, desiring that ground, must dispossess the first soldier of the area he has occupied.