abstraction
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Abstraction meets landscape; painterly application meets rough-and-tumble applications.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Abstraction, with African or Black abstract artists, means so much more to us.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Abstraction is the process of taking water from a natural source such as a river, burn, loch or underground supply.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2022
The Whitney Museum’s “Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930-1950” is shining light on prints and drawings in a little seen but carefully tended corner of the permanent collection.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022
Abstraction, language, how we make decisions, organize our time, focus.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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