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abstraction

[ab-strak-shuhn] / æbˈstræk ʃən /


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But Bacon, the king of tortured, expressionistic figuration, and De Kooning, master of brashly colorful gestural abstraction, are only now being brought together by Lévy Gorvy Dayan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Illustration lost critical standing with the rise of abstraction, according to Moffatt and author Leo Braudy, professor emeritus of English and art history at USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Creating these abstractions involves difficult maths, but essentially they filter out useless information, just leaving the AI with useful pictures of the world.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Classic style minimizes abstractions, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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