It's a beautiful work of abstract colour and texture, of contrasting dark and light. |
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She is represented by two unprepossessing abstract heads rendered in polychrome clay. |
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It was a figurative abstract of Pare Argile holding his son as a newly born baby. |
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But terror is an abstract noun, not a country as our Constitution pickily insists for a war. |
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Charter issues must be decided in the factual context before the court and not in the abstract or on hypothetical facts. |
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These two shows, a few months apart, displayed the tactile and abstract effects she wrings from such small-scale marks. |
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But it is Brutus who is the most instantly recognisable modern figure in his use of abstract nouns to justify political ends. |
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It's about the right image going with the right story in the right direction, rather than it being abstract. |
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But equally, he claimed that he was capable of dissociating himself from his physical disorders only through abstract thought. |
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So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change. |
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The question of Being, far from being too abstract or theoretical an issue, will prove to be important for understanding exile. |
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It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation. |
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Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical. |
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While the research work is highly abstract and theoretical, it has practical applications in computer science, Goins notes. |
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Second, this shaky notion was based on a highly abstract and contentious branch of physics known as string theory. |
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One does not mind the ending, but one notices that when Taylor strings together abstract nouns, he is at his least compelling. |
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As your Honours have seen the substantive provision of the Act is one which uses the abstract noun. |
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How, if it's a category mistake to think that you can fight a war against it, do you organise an international campaign against an abstract noun? |
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I knew that I needed to abstract what I wanted from the general confusion and the disorder of the scene. |
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This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley. |
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Mentoring is not effective or ineffective in the abstract, but has specific outcomes in specific circumstances. |
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Boxer is perhaps best known for richly textured abstract canvases, championed by critic Clement Greenberg. |
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The layers of abstract colour in her current work recalls another German painter, Gerhard Richter. |
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Your paper is in favour of home rule in the abstract but never, it seems in the actual practice. |
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Modem science, no matter how theoretical, speculative and abstract, strives finally for empirical evidence to test and confirm the truth of its claims. |
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In the '50s, he made heavily textured abstract paintings using crumpled mulberry paper and globs of oil paint. |
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What makes the humanities important is that they take the areas where we have insufficient data and try to abstract useful principles from it. |
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Potato producers who abstract water from Pembrokeshire's rivers and streams could have their licences revoked by new European legislation. |
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However, the customer wandered away to look at an abstract in big, bold colors. |
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Corruption is generally held to be a vice, and viewed in the abstract, it is. |
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Her use of abstract effects in the service of representation is striking and makes her art complex. |
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The lower half of the artwork consists of dark splotches and torn-paper abstract effects. |
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I have a strong suspicion that generals are always better in the abstract than in reality. |
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The landscape background of Elizabeth's portrait in particular is remarkably abstract, using strong colour and thick impasto. |
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His later style of the 1940s is more abstract and colour becomes the most important factor. |
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Rothko stresses that the contrast between abstract and representational painting is overdrawn, that all art has subject matter. |
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They resemble cone-like wall sconces, and the colorful abstract shapes covering their surfaces appear to glow like stained glass windows. |
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The two artists are very good at glitchy, abstract manipulations, here without remorse and full of ingenuity. |
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Both legs and abstract shapes contribute to an almost painterly overall compositional effect. |
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I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism. |
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Many abstract nouns are uncountable, but not all uncountable nouns are abstract. |
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Today in Mr. Danton's class, I got hit with a ruler again for saying love was a concrete noun and not an abstract one. |
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And that's certainly a good idea, at least in the abstract and as a general matter. |
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We do not say that there is anything about calling up special reasons, generally, in the abstract, as being a vice in legislation. |
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To solve a problem, you're therefore never very interested in Hindu law in the abstract. |
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Some of the non-English articles provided an English abstract, while others did not. |
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Her work is abstract, using geometrical shapes subtly arranged and typically painted in soft colours. |
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The most difficult task for the mothers was to explain the concept of abstract nouns and mimetic words in Korean. |
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Still, people seem to be more fond of free speech in the abstract than in specific instances. |
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Those were theoretical or abstract possibilities not applying to this case. |
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Perspicacity is an abstract noun describing a certain capacity of a certain capability. |
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And if it isn't going to hurt any specific marriage, it isn't going to hurt marriage in the abstract. |
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And although ubuntu can be grammatically classified as an abstract noun, it is often employed in relational contexts. |
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It's melancholic, but never chilly in the way that much electronica can be and doesn't ever abstract itself out of existence. |
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Their plainly representational knotty, bark-covered surface contrasts with the immaterial, abstract shapes of the molding. |
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Verbs and adjectives are more abstract, and so are more difficult concepts for children's minds to grasp. |
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For these abstract artists, the external world is mediated by internal feelings. |
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There, I can discuss things from my past in an abstract manner, without directly pointing fingers. |
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In that profession you start with a blank sheet of paper and a concept or abstract idea. |
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Fabre explains that his metaphors are simultaneously real and illusory, physical and abstract, living and dead. |
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Numbers in early historical times were thought of much more concretely than the abstract concepts which are our numbers today. |
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The colours each had several meanings, some of which were abstract ideas, some concrete as in the cattle and sheep example. |
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Like Borges, his writing examines the consequences of abstract theories in the physical world. |
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One of the reasons is undoubtedly that stories bring ideas to life and help readers see abstract concepts in action. |
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Poetry allows us to examine science in a way that purely scientific discourse cannot by analogizing abstract concepts into concrete forms. |
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I urge that the general public be made more aware of this very useful result of a very abstract physical theory. |
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The pace is languid and events too abstract to be a children's movie, yet corny stunts alienate mature viewers. |
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Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems. |
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Some people feel modern dance is difficult to follow, somewhat abstract or esoteric. |
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Certainly, if last night's showing was anything to go by, his work was somewhat abstract and obscure, and obviously an acquired taste. |
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These stories are not abstract or theoretical and they communicate a local opinion directly. |
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I found it abstract and rather unmoving, more of an idea for a drama than a compelling drama itself. |
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After all, math is so abstract that it's hard to communicate ideas to other mathematicians. |
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Lyrics are abstract and often inscrutable, but powerful images sometime fight through the verbal and instrumental haze. |
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Video has a place on blogs, especially in reporting about tsunamis and other events that are dramatic and not abstract. |
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Tess Giberson deconstructs her knits until they are little more than fragile strands, turning them into a kind of abstract art. |
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From pop rocks with an audio track to abstract art drizzled in syrup, restaurants are taking dessert way beyond coffee and cake. |
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Wells and thousands of others have found an unexpected forum for abstract art, and Keck has found another market. |
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At the most fundamental level, abstract expressionism evokes existential angst for instance, and Pop Art satirizes consumerism. |
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She was chatty and casual, and expressed her abstract concern that American democracy is on a cannibalistic downward slide. |
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There is a need to humanize plans that work on paper, in the abstract, but lack touchy-feely elements in actuality. |
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My description of cannonball has become admittedly abstract, and the novel is sometimes inexplicably opaque. |
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Neither has Lane done himself any favours by dispensing with a chronological narrative in favour of themed chapters with abstract titles such as Complicity and Betrayal. |
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It means a combination of things, both abstract and physical. |
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Do you think that as we get older our thoughts shift to the more abstract, the music, than the definite, the lyrics? |
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Potokar's poetry seems rather abstract, at times cryptic, but at the same time palpable and relentless in its attempt to fight despair and solitude. |
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One conclusion that one might be tempted to draw from this is that mathematical truths cannot, after all, imply the existence of specific abstract objects of any kind. |
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Prints ranged from rich and India-meets-Psychedelic to modern and art deco, rendered in abstract circular, swirling prints. |
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Even at the time, it was very obvious to me that these were not people who were interested in ideas or ethereal, abstract notions of human liberty. |
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Aelita Andre has just wrapped up another major show of her abstract paintings and given interviews on her latest inspirations. |
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They are very abstract, based on mythical and dreamy themes. |
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The reason for believing that it is a largely abstract and theoretical issue is that the Court of Appeal judgments implied strongly that that was so. |
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Goodwin now works in both representational and abstract modes. |
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Sitor, according to Nirwan, often achieves this by using abstract nouns. |
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Several artists claimed to be the first to paint an abstract picture, rather as early photographers had wrangled over who had invented the camera. |
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We respond to dangers that our ancestors equipped us to understand, like fire and fangs and claws, more readily than we respond to threats based on abstract reasoning. |
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It will be easier at this time to put abstract ideas into concrete form. |
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If we abstract the technical from its social context and cultural foundations, technology appears to develop outside of society, following a trajectory of its own making. |
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At the moment, for many, it's just too abstract and theoretical. |
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Once we get a hint we are capable of making the original more abstract and less concrete, of extending a concrete and singular concept into more abstract spheres. |
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Liberty is a ponderous and not-to-be-used-lightly abstract noun. |
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But these laws and theorems are not just abstract mathematics. |
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His later work represented a desire to invalidate distinctions between abstract art and kitsch, and became increasingly unorthodox and horrific in its imagery. |
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Rose found it hard to abstract herself from the lives of these women but she knew that she had to make that distance in order to tell their story without preaching her anger. |
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Such ideals cannot be lived in the abstract, they must be performed. |
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Looking at German games, all of them have a strong abstract base to them. |
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But travel outside the beltway, and the conversation about impeachment is far from abstract. |
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A single preposition may have a variety of meanings, often including temporal, spatial and abstract. |
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The more abstract we are from the body... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light. |
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The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages. |
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The abstract relationship between locative-temporal and causal-final adverbials is well reflected in their realization in the case system. |
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One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible. |
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But Ms. Yauger's death concretized these abstract discussions and theories. |
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You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper. |
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We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness. |
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Some scholars have argued that the appearance of complex or abstract language made these behavior changes possible. |
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Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns. |
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Its debating chamber, in timber, is an abstract version of a lavvo, the traditional tent used by the nomadic Sami people. |
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This is more abstract than many of the processes studied in elementary algebra, where functions usually input a number and output another number. |
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A small architectural scene, landscape, or abstract design was placed in the center with a monochrome background. |
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The fourth style, which began in the 1st century AD, depicted scenes from mythology, while retaining architectural details and abstract patterns. |
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Greatly enlarged initials, sometimes inhabited, were retained, as well as far more abstract decoration than found in classical models. |
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This verse form maps stressed and unstressed syllables onto abstract entities known as metrical positions. |
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These filming conditions allowed only a single abstract set, and eclectic costumes. |
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Socialists view freedom as a concrete situation as opposed to a purely abstract ideal. |
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He had planned to become an artist, and his writing shows a vision that clothed abstract ideas in concrete and memorable images. |
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Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. |
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Other nominees included abstract painters Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and sculptor Rachel Whiteread. |
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The Japanese tradition is independent of the European, but many abstract and floral elements are used. |
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By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. |
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These include impressionism and the modernist styles of expressionism, abstract painting and surrealism. |
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Hitler felt that abstract, Dadaist, expressionist, and modern art were decadent, an opinion that became the basis for policy. |
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Graham, Gorky created biomorphically shaped and abstracted figurative compositions that by the 1940s evolved into totally abstract paintings. |
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The other abstract expressionists followed Pollock's breakthrough with new breakthroughs of their own. |
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They were characterized by the reductive philosophies of minimalism and the spontaneous improvisation and expressivity of abstract expressionism. |
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Turning away a respected abstract artist proved that, as early as 1962, the pop art movement had begun to dominate art culture in New York. |
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Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. |
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Both geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction are often totally abstract. |
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Three art movements which contributed to the development of abstract art were Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism. |
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Many of the abstract artists in Russia became Constructivists believing that art was no longer something remote, but life itself. |
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Certain artists at this time became distinctly abstract in their mature work. |
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The indigenous art of Australia often looks like abstract modern art, but it has deep roots in local culture. |
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The development of abstract algebra brought with itself group theory, rings, fields, and Galois theory. |
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In Peterlee the abstract artist Victor Pasmore was appointed part of the design team, which led to the building of the Apollo Pavilion. |
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These students exhibit more cognitive elasticity including a better ability to analyse abstract visual patterns. |
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He speculated that myths arose due to the lack of abstract nouns and neuter gender in ancient languages. |
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In 1963 Susan created the popular Totem, an abstract pattern based in primitive forms coupled with a cylindrical shape. |
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Plays within the genre of theatre of cruelty are abstract in convention and content. |
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There is usually a choreographer who makes the creative decisions and decides whether the piece is an abstract or a narrative one. |
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In order to abstract this structure from the variety of dialects, he developed some basic criteria, which he called the most perfect form. |
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About the middle of the 3rd century, an abstract of the geographical portions of Pliny's work was produced by Solinus. |
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Some examples of these human universals are abstract thought, planning, trade, cooperative labor, body decoration, control and use of fire. |
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As described in the abstract of his log made by Bartolome de Las Casas, on the outward bound voyage Columbus recorded two sets of distances. |
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A Petroglyph is an intaglio abstract or symbolic image engraved on natural stone by various methods, usually by prehistoric peoples. |
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Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy and science fiction. |
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The Arctic Circle is the most northerly of the abstract five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of the Earth. |
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As a traditionalist, he placed great emphasis on the role of individuals in history instead of abstract, impersonal forces. |
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The engravings show depictions of a wide range of topics including agricultural and war scenes alongside more abstract symbols. |
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One was that he became disenchanted with the moralistic attacks and counterattacks of officials, rooted in an abstract Confucian orthodoxy. |
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Blackness and chastity are common nouns, even if blackness and chastity are considered unique abstract entities. |
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Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs. |
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Webster said that children pass through distinctive learning phases in which they master increasingly complex or abstract tasks. |
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In rare cases a linguist may represent phonemes with abstract symbols, such as dingbats, so as not to privilege any one allophone. |
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The issue was not just an abstract problem for Zwingli, as he had secretly married a widow, Anna Reinhard, earlier in the year. |
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This is unattractive in Artificial Intelligence, as it requires a computation over abstract Turing machines. |
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When mathematicians employ the field axioms, the intentions are even more abstract. |
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Ultimately, the abstract parallels between algebraic systems were seen to be more important than the details and modern algebra was born. |
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Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. |
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These pictorial representations eventually became simplified and more abstract. |
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With the rebus principle, sound could be made visible in a systematic way, and abstract concepts symbolized. |
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A technology for distributing resources that was less given to abstract hoarding would be more suitable to a biotechnic conception of living. |
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So, what attracts you? What turns you on? If you decided on abstract thought, clever humour and insight. You're a sapiosexual. |
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So it starts with the sensical, and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract. |
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These matters are not mere threats to abstract constitutional principles. |
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To listeners, Adnan is a real human while Jay remains an abstract figure. |
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Their reaction to hearing about alternative sexual practices in the abstract is most often amusement, sometimes squickage, rarely moral outrage. |
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Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept. |
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A complex arrangement of blackwork stitches used to create an abstract design for a wallhanging or picture. |
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But Mr. Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract. |
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Rehberger is renowned for his abstract art and optical effects that distort perception. |
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All with the use of abstract art, not a fairly uncommon method of artistic expression within the local community. |
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If it still made sense to speak of abstract art, Letizia Galli's paintings would have to be called abstract. |
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But Harris, who also directed, offers a fascinating portrait of the troubled abstract expressionist. |
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The modern meditative environment was inspired by the paintings of American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. |
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The remarkable transformation was completed with abstract music, composed by Mark Reveley. |
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Noise is to sonic art what abstract painting is to visual art, so it's probably fair to think of it as abstract music. |
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For a master of abstract music, Johannes Brahms enjoyed surprisingly close ties with the most realistic of media, photography. |
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It's easy to forget that our consumers are not an abstract noun, they are also human beings. |
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For instance, Steinmayer describes the prefix peN-as a formant for an agent, the name of a thing that does something, and an abstract noun. |
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The students connected an abstract noun with a concrete noun and developed an extended metaphor. |
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Success is an abstract noun, but it's measured by each learner. |
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We dance, we do abstract music and then we go and do a commercial record. |
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There is greater dynamic range, more detail of orchestral color, and in general, the score works better as abstract music in the hands of the Post-Classical Ensemble. |
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That's something that someone can understand who's not interested in abstract music, even though the kernel of the idea is still conceptually very sound. |
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First generation abstract expressionist, friend of Picasso and Pollack, Hofmann struggled for recognition as an artist until Peggy Guggenheim exhibited his work. |
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Instead, its curators continually question the idea of the artist as an autonomous creator, a paramount myth of the postwar abstract expressionist movement. |
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Against the coercions of abstract fungibility, unevenness unrestrains the subject of history from compulsory participation in the regimes of exchange equivalence. |
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Without more abstract notions of what constitutes important aspects of a programming language, one is seriously in danger of falling into the Turing Tarpit. |
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There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation. The sky or the lake is not structured, only the film. |
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We began with no abstract theory of social justice or the rights of man. |
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All of which use a particularly abstract notion of capital in which the requirement of capital being produced like durable goods is effectively removed. |
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The abstract side of philosophy did not greatly attract Asquith, whose outlook was always practical, but Green's progressive liberal political views appealed to him. |
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Like Edmund Burke, this view concerns itself with balance, and subordinating any single abstract principle to a plurality or realistic harmony of interests. |
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Situation aspect are abstract terms that are not physically tangible. |
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Manufacturers of perfumes usually publish perfume notes and typically they present it as fragrance pyramid, with the components listed in imaginative and abstract terms. |
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Figures often varied in size in relation to their importance, and landscape backgrounds, if attempted at all, were closer to abstract decorations than realism. |
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It is characterized by animals whose bodies are divided into sections, and typically appear at the fringes of designs whose main emphasis is on abstract patterns. |
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The abstract noun anthropology is first attested in reference to history. |
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Art has had a great number of different functions throughout its history, making its purpose difficult to abstract or quantify to any single concept. |
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Philosophy is a discipline or field of study involving the investigation, analysis, and development of ideas at a general, abstract, or fundamental level. |
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Some readers of Herodotus believe that his habit of tying events back to personal motives signifies an inability to see broader and more abstract reasons for action. |
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His abstract paintings are a mixture of acrylics and pen drawings. |
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The Quantum Leap is an abstract sculpture unveiled in the town centre in 2009 to mark the bicentenary on the birth of Shrewsbury biologist Charles Darwin. |
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Modern human behaviors characteristic of recent humans includes a language, the capacity for abstract thought and the use of symbolism to express cultural creativity. |
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The mainstream of intellectual activity in the colonies was on technological and engineering developments rather than more abstract topics such as politics or metaphysics. |
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Although other subdisciplines of geography rely on maps for presenting their analyses, the actual making of maps is abstract enough to be regarded separately. |
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Popper argued strongly against the latter, holding that scientific theories are abstract in nature, and can be tested only indirectly, by reference to their implications. |
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During the late 1950s and the 1960s abstract sculptors began experimenting with a wide array of new materials and different approaches to creating their work. |
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The distinction between abstract and figurative art has, over the last twenty years, become less defined leaving a wider range of ideas for all artists. |
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Ouspensky also had an important influence on the early formations of the geometric abstract styles of Piet Mondrian and his colleagues in the early 20th century. |
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It is at this level of visual meaning that abstract art communicates. |
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Arts and Crafts practitioners in Britain were critical of the government system of art education based on design in the abstract with little teaching of practical craft. |
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Band members all had different visions for Radiohead's future, and Yorke experienced writer's block, influencing him toward a more abstract, fragmented form of songwriting. |
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As its imagery becomes more surreal and mystically abstract, Mr. Glass's ethereal electronic score, which suggests a Himalyan music of the spheres, gathers force and energy. |
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Related to abstract expressionism was the emergence of combining manufactured items with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture. |
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But that definition seemed too abstract in 1914 to a nation geared up for war, militarily stronger than ever, wealthy, and, above all, endowed with powerful allies. |
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Reality is often an abstract and fragile concept in Nolan's work. |
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He wrote it not as a quick pamphlet but as a long, abstract political tract of 90,000 words that tore apart monarchies and traditional social institutions. |
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The later, more abstract figures are often penetrated by spaces directly through the body, by which means Moore explores and alternates concave and convex shapes. |
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In 1937, Roland Penrose purchased an abstract 'Mother and Child' in stone from Moore that he displayed in the front garden of his house in Hampstead. |
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This abstract work was never exhibited during af Klint's lifetime. |
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This break with ancient thought was happening around the same time that Galileo was proposing abstract mathematical laws for the motion of objects. |
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Later, more abstract and general methods were developed, leading to the reformulations of classical mechanics known as Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics. |
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A concept brand is a brand that is associated with an abstract concept, like breast cancer awareness or environmentalism, rather than a specific product, service, or business. |
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In modern times, the scope of philosophy has become limited to more generic or abstract inquiries, such as ethics and metaphysics, in which logic plays a major role. |
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Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose. |
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You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. |
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Key abstract theorems are explained largely by physical reasoning, and are presented in the most concrete, intelligible fashion possible. Epsilontics are minimized. |
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If someone you've disemvowelled comes back and behaves, forgive and forget their earlier gaffes. You're acting in the service of civility, not abstract justice. |
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The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract. |
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I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go on beavering away. |
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A striking feature of English is the use of abstract nouns as articleless referring expressions, indicating that many abstract things are seen as inherently unique. |
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