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abstract art

  1. A trend in painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. Abstract art seeks to break away from traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the relationships of forms and colors, whereas more traditional art represents the world in recognizable images.


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What the Nazis did not care for was largely contemporary and abstract art, the likes of Chagall and Dufy and Klee, to name a few.

The Daily Pic: Leidy Churchman's video shows abstract art in the making.

Tess Giberson deconstructs her knits until they are little more than fragile strands, turning them into a kind of abstract art.

From pop rocks with an audio track to abstract art drizzled in syrup, restaurants are taking dessert way beyond coffee and cake.

Wells and thousands of others have found an unexpected forum for abstract art, and Keck has found another market.

The screen went into a beautiful burst of abstract art, and cleared, after a while, with Skordran Kirv looking out of it.

In the late 1960s the PCR was disturbed by the extent to which abstract art had blossomed despite party disapproval.

Nor can we draw the immediate inference that abstract art is inappropriate in a frame.

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