abstraction

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

But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

He was not an abstraction who punished you if you were wicked or rewarded you if you were good, but a real person like Guenever, or fike Arthur, or Him anybody else.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

This survey collects early batik textiles and later, more famous, nature-inspired abstractions to explore the deep connections between her work and the land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

The nuns were not interested in constructing a temple of religious abstractions.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez