I think this is actually yet another distinction, between top-down and
bottom-up planning. Years ago, Cynthia Solomon wrote about *three*
learning styles: top-down planner, bottom-up planner, and tinkerer.
*Any* painting is an abstraction. Out there in the world is a physical
thing. In your painting you are representing certain aspects of the
thing and not other aspects. This is true regardless of your technique.
(And if there isn't a thing, then even the artists call what you're
doing "abstract art"!)
In what I just said I'm assuming that painter (b) does have a goal in
mind, and those one-at-a-time strokes are aimed at that goal. If you
really start out empty-headed, Jackson Pollack style, I suppose you
could call that bricolage, although I think that really even Pollack
had some vague end in view for each painting.
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