Sun Drawing Water, 1933
A way to look things
We have not yet made shoes that fit like sand.
Not clothes that fits like water,
Nor thoughts that fit like air.
There is much to be done –
Works of nature are abstract,
They do not lean on other things for meaning.
The sea-gull is not like the sea,
Nor the sun like the moon,
The sun draws water from the sea,
The clouds are not like either one –
They do not keep one form forever.
That the mountainside looks like a face is accidental.
                                      A.G. Dove 1925

Dove, Arthur Garfield (1880-1946), American painter, who was among the first artists to create paintings that do not represent recognizable objects (nonrepresentational paintings). Many experts on American art consider Dove the most important and most original artist of his generation. Despite his move toward abstract art, Dove always found inspiration in nature.