abstraction
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They combine animals and figures; architecture, ladders and wagons; abstraction and representation.
Goriunova, a cultural theorist and digital curator based in London, examines how these constructed figures and abstractions shape surveillance, governance and everyday life.
From Los Angeles Times
The gallery has carved out a niche for itself uncovering overlooked midcentury artists from its home country of Argentina, revealing the geniuses who still embraced realism while abstraction was popular there.
Born in the 19th century, Brancusi made his career in 20th century Paris, his work the epitome of Modernist abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times
Both brains and slugs use the same chemical mechanisms to develop abstractions, general rules to guide their hosts through the chaos of moment-to-moment experience.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
