Vocabulary Word
Word: abstract
Definition: theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
Definition: theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
Sentences Containing 'abstract'
The convention will be more natural or more abstract according to the nature of the thing to be conveyed and the medium employed to express it.
There is, as it were, an abstract music of line, tone, and color.
But an emotional significance depending on some arrangement of abstract lines is to be found underlying the expression in every good picture, carefully hidden as it is by all great artists.
Have abstract proportions any significance in art, as we found abstract line and mass arrangements had?
It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?
The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed to contain an abstract of human knowledge, as indeed it does to a considerable extent.
The one is a plain palpable object; the other an abstract notion, which though it can be made sufficiently intelligible, is not altogether so natural and obvious.
The abstract improbability of such a tendency being transmitted through a vast number of generations, is not greater than that of quite useless or rudimentary organs being similarly transmitted.
I wish I had space here to give a fuller abstract of Mr. Agassiz's interesting observations on the development of the pedicellariae.
I can give here only the briefest abstract of the more important facts.
What though these reasonings concerning human nature seem abstract, and of difficult comprehension?
Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever.
They endeavour to find objections, both to our abstract reasonings, and to those which regard matter of fact and existence.
There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.
He studied architecture but became known as the leading name in Portuguese abstract painting.
He started painting in 1944, influenced by music, astronomy, and the international abstract movement.
Borlase started as a figurative painter before moving to abstract impressionism.
Emmy Noether went on to become a central figure in abstract algebra.
O is also published as a topic of the Open Geospatial Consortium "Abstract Specification".
During his time there he became well known for his abstract art, and later his theatrical portrait art.
Some properties of abstract data types:
"Stable" means that input order is retained.
As players advance, the levels become more complicated, many requiring abstract strategies.
The album features Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Myka 9 and 2Mex on vocals.
His style has been described as abstract as well as colorful yet dark.
The album features layered guitars, abstract percussion, and chant-like vocals.
It is an abstract concept, used in the modeling, system(s) design and system(s) exploitation.
Teens may have more difficulty with understanding or expressing abstract ideas.
It was very abstract and humorous yet imbued with meaning.
Despite the drastic differences between pieces, Abstract Expressionism shares several broad characteristics.
These characteristics includes:
There are also three main techniques in which categorize Abstract Expressionism.
In abstract algebra, an abelian extension is a Galois extension whose Galois group is abelian.
By 1904-05, Metzinger began to favor the abstract qualities of larger brushstrokes and vivid colors.
His abstract paintings and drawings take a historical cue from post-war European automatism and surrealism, and the influence those movements had on abstract expressionism.
Many of his works were inspired by natural elements which he used in compose abstract art.
Gwenfritz is a painted steel abstract stabile, by Alexander Calder.
He also wrote texts on Lie groups, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis.
In both, language and music, both concrete and abstract target words elicited significant N400 effects.
Most Inca art, however, was abstract in nature.
These are all examples of an abstract group called Z2.
With the other abstract beings, they battled Thanos, and then battled Nebula when she obtained the Gauntlet from Thanos.
The abstract sculpture consists of stacked geometricized slabs of bronze; it is installed on a base on the lawn.
The woodland environment may be used to learn about more abstract concepts such as mathematics and communication.
In mathematics and abstract algebra, a Bol loop is an algebraic structure generalizing the notion of group.
One of the abstract events @ Consortium, it has been designed to test the Lean Management skills of the participants.
This is undoubtedly an idealization and may be used for abstract or theoretical purposes.
It can be shown that formula_196 is a linear order on abstract cardinals, but not on sets.
"Afero" "business" is a lexeme used as an abstract placeholder.
According to Twingley, “I began my career as an Abstract Expressionist, allowing the paint to do most of the thinking.
He was known to be an abstract expressionism painter.
He is an abstract sculptor, as well as a painter and printmaker.
