Just struck me that evocative abstraction in the sense of Picasso bull is the opposite of generalizing abstraction. You get to the unique essence of 1 thing by stripping away what it shares with other things in the same category. Generalizing abstraction does the opposite.
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Picasso said of the abstraction process:
"Two holes. That’s the symbol for the face, enough to evoke it without representing it. But isn’t it strange that it can be done through such simple means? Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
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