abstraction

Each tile is the same size, but for most of the tables, the abstraction of the design means collectors can choose how they are arranged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Over the course of the next half-century, she produced more than 5,000 works in crayon, oil and collage: landscapes and masklike images—amalgams of abstraction, figuration, flora and fauna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

This abstraction turned to subterfuge in the challengers’ briefing before the Supreme Court last month.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Setting aside Pearl Harbor, any real threat to the “homeland” was mostly an abstraction in itself.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The lack of recognition, Feldman argues, reverberates through Caland’s heavily impastoed portraits of Moses and her enigmatic late abstractions such as the rectilinear paintings in the “Silent Letter Series.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

For troops’ families, such abstractions, repeated in media discourse, have concrete consequences when their loved ones don’t come home on time.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Across a remarkably varied oeuvre of more than 9,000 small‑ and easel‑scale abstractions, Klee drew deeply from art and nature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

When there was laughter at a joke he didn’t understand Frankie laughed delightedly behind his chair and when the conversation dealt with abstractions his brow furrowed and he became intent and serious.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck