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  2. Abstract art - Wikipedia

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    Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.

  3. Abstract and concrete - Wikipedia

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    Abstract objects are most commonly used in philosophy, particularly metaphysics, and semantics. They are sometimes called abstracta in contrast to concreta. The term abstract object is said to have been coined by Willard Van Orman Quine. [5] Abstract object theory is a discipline that studies the nature and role of abstract objects. It holds ...

  4. Abstraction (art) - Wikipedia

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    Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world [1] —it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art. Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract; that which derives from ...

  5. Geometric abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art, which existed centuries before the movement in Europe and in many ways influenced this Western school.

  6. Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Typically, abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym for abstract art in general. Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world—it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art. [16]

  7. How to Design a Drawing Room for Entertaining Guests at Home

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    The earliest known use of the noun drawing room is in the mid-1600s, with the earliest evidence of drawing room appearing in 1635, from a Victorian-era memoir titled Steward's Household Accounts.

  8. Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia

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    Rereadings into abstract art, done by art historians such as Linda Nochlin, [30] Griselda Pollock [31] and Catherine de Zegher [32] critically shows, however, that pioneer women artists who have produced major innovations in modern art had been ignored by the official accounts of its history, but finally began to achieve long overdue ...

  9. What is the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year? - AOL

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    Noun: "Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality ...