Colossus Study #1, 2 ,3, and 4

The natural world contains numerous incidental and inharmonious features on which artists tend to impose a degree of order and harmony.  If artists make only slight alterations to natural subject-matter, they produce a work closely related to the appearance of Nature, or realistic art.  However, if an artist allows order and harmony to dominate rather than control natural forms, the result is referred to as “abstraction.”  Here the artist has moved closer to abstraction in his depiction.