They are, as the show's first work dubiously announces, "Too Abstract to Actually Refer to a Particular Source".
To write a Profile of a businessperson, meanwhile, is to approach business from a particular angle, explaining how the world of business, which can seem abstract, is actually rooted in personal life.
"The internet is classically an experienced technology in the sense that you can't see many of its advantages in the abstract, you actually have to experience it to understand how it can work for you," Blank said.
The first large-format show to include af Klint's abstract work actually came 42 years after her death, in 1986, when Maurice Tuchman, then the curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, included her work in "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985".
Although Gold talks in developmental psycholinguistic terms about language learners learning grammars by trial and error, his extremely abstract proofs actually make no reference to the linguistic content of languages or grammars at all.
The film has all its major scenes in and around the famous Bloor and Bathurst gaudy warehouse depot, even filming down Honest Ed's Alley, but the nondescript problem that this family faces is just too abstract to actually make us give a damn.
The result was that 86 out of the 90 abstracts were actually relevant to the target event class.
They appear completely abstract but are actually pictures of oxidized metal surfaces.
The big, seemingly rectangular "Abstract Slavery" is actually a trapezoid; all its edges are in contention with the horizontals and verticals of its wall.
The pattern looks abstract, but is actually a series of diagrams charting the command hierarchies of Oxford University, MI6 and HSBC bank.
