And here, instead, it feels like a rebellion against more abstract social conventions," says Brinkema.
A multipanel grid painting from 1951 in flat, bright hues shows Kelly breaking the conventions of Abstract Expressionism, treating color as figure and wall as ground.
These "conventions for abstract thought," as he called them, include a gaping mouth to stand for "dangerous brooding," a pair of blank eyes for "imbecility" and two black whirlpools to represent fear.
Gober gives pride of place to a suite of strange pencil drawings from 1917, "Conventions for Abstract Thoughts," in which Burchfield marshalled ovals, spirals, curves, and jagged lines to define a lexicon of ordeals of the mind.
The series is described as an "... instance of Abstract Expressionism recycled through conventions taken from the mass media ..."....
He even illustrated his own words, as in his notebook "Conventions for Abstract Thoughts," his personal iconography, "A graphic shorthand of youth," he called it, which came to be viewed by some as a visual vocabulary of American modernism.
The pairing pointed up a fugitive convention in abstract art, often by women, of loveliness laced with needling discontent.
I am happy to be guided by the authors as they will be more familiar with the conventions than I. Abstract: replace "easy" with "simple" in "... fashion that's easy... .........., and move the details about availability and the URI to the end of the sentence.
Indeed, even the convention's slightly abstract theme -- "Renewing America's Purpose.
Human rights conventions are full of abstract and even contradictory concepts.
