will cotton – From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art

May 13, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Rückenfigur

The back of a woman's head and shoulders. Brown hair up in a bun, a flower-patterned shirt, and minimal jewelry. No facial features are visible.

It's Art Term Tuesday! Read on to learn how you can use this new term in artistic conversations: Rückenfigur! We'll see examples from FWMoA, now on display in Truthful Illusions: Realism in the Age of Abstraction.