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yes it’s the eye. it is figurative which i was taught is antithetical to abstraction.

Ehhhh, I can see it maybe being too representational for full on abstract the way people think of it nowadays. I don't agree with it necessarily, though there is always going to be a gray zone at the edges of abstract and there is a point in that zone where it ceases to be.

In this case, had I been the mod, I think I would have either left it alone by virtue of being in that zone, or left it to the community to decide via votes/reports/whatever.

Me? I'd call it abstract enough that if it was in a line-up with twenty random pieces, I'd likely point to it as abstract. If it was lined up with twenty classically abstract pieces, maybe not. I mean, it ain't Mondrian, right? At least not his later kind of abstract.

Then again, with enough explanation of what it abstracts, even by that standard, I could be easily swayed into agreeing it could stay in the line-up.

It's certainly not off by enough to knee jerk remove from a niche sub like that

Edit: what are you abstracting? What's the core of it?

Re-edit:

And, looking at it again after closing my eyes and thinking on the memory of it, I can definitely see where it might not be pure abstract. Abstract expressionist, surrealist, something like that, the gray is less gray. But the overall impression it leaves is more of a zoomed in piece of something that is figurative. It could pass as a close-up of swamp-thing in that respect.

I like it, btw. I'm just saying that as I examine it, it does stray further from what abstract means as a movement/school. Still wouldn't have just knee jerk removed it, but I can't say it wouldn't merit removal on the grounds of classification, regardless of intent.

I dunno, I tend to side with the artist when it comes to classification, but there is a degree of definition to art genres. Like, you'd have trouble billing a fast jazz track as metal, even if it was on electric instruments and had distortion, you dig?

Maybe because it's digital?

Also, mods everywhere can get chronically drunk on their tiny little bit of power, so there's also that.

Reddit gonna Redd.

Looks pretty abstract to me.

Some communities there have bots that comment on posts so people can up/downvote the bot comment to decide if the post fits the community, or if the relevance changed (e.g. in deals communities). The subreddit could use something like this, if they don't already.

And if you make a meta post or the sort suggesting that or contesting the removal and they ban you, well, shows they don't want you. So in such an outcome, feel free to post here on the fediverse, either/both in the general art communities, the weirdcore community if you think it fits, abstract art communities if you can find any, or on a community of your own creation for that.