The phrase "abstract backdrop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a non-specific or conceptual background in various contexts, such as art, literature, or design.
Example: "The artist chose an abstract backdrop to emphasize the emotional depth of the figures in the foreground."
Alternatives: "conceptual background" or "theoretical setting".
An abstract backdrop by Xéna Lee, depicting streaks of autumnal colors, hangs behind the musicians.
There's an exuberance of colour in its jewel-bright costumes and in Mark Bradford's abstract backdrop, while the choreography ranges expressively from giddy, skimming turns to meditative floorwork.
And the set designer, John Culbert, avoids pictorialism altogether, ditching literal references to the show's bustling fairground and New England docks in favor of a pair of nearly bare curving platforms and an abstract backdrop of wooden slats.
For "Five Part Weather Invention," the opening ensemble, Terry Winters, the production's designer, created an abstract backdrop that contrasted straight lines with squiggles, and it seemed to glow in Jennifer Tipton's lighting.
A note here about David Zinn's scene design, so imaginative, breathtaking and mythic: the ship in all its immense grandeur is an abstract backdrop of sea-worthy glory, a mix of rust and blue-greens.
Yet, against an abstract backdrop of brilliant gold leaf, this laden basket exudes comfortable elegance, tangible beauty, graceful maturity.
Scenery was reduced to simple, abstract backdrops; the stage was darkened or lighted from above; gestures were stylized and speeches were chanted; and costumes were usually simple and "timeless".
Video images added an abstract scenic backdrop.
Changing moods are reflected not just in the score but in the glorious abstract painted backdrop by Jon Goodwin that evokes the Scottish highlands, slashed with a blood-red streak.
The work of these photographers show what a broad church architectural photography is – from images of abstract fragments to backdrops of social commentary, echoes of a disappearing past to shining paths to the future.
Abstract sculptures as a backdrop suggested a new rendition of their hard-edged look.
