The strangest mascot was Whatizit, or Izzy, of the 1996 Games in Atlanta, Georgia, a rather amorphous "abstract fantasy figure".
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"Sin City," the noir film released last month starring Bruce Willis, "has that sort of digital look where the entire space veers toward some kind of abstract fantasy".
Rife with abstract fantasies and the subtlest of color mixes, this work has strong appeal, and its rare showing is a bonanza for print lovers.
Animals also served as a basis for semi-abstract fantasy in Mexican, Maya, North American Indian, and Oceanic sculpture.
A few blocks south of the Sherman monument, placed by the New York City Parks Public Art Program on the Park Avenue median strip between 57th and 51st Streets, are seven bronze and stainless-steel sculptures by James Surls of giant, semi-abstract, fantasy flowers.
They precede Chagall, parallel German Expressionism and are nearly in step with the proto-abstract fantasies of knights and ladies in dappled landscapes that Kandinsky was making in Munich.
"The original abstract idea, fantasy, hypothesis of "pop ambient" was to put pop music under a giant microscope and to enlarge it, stretch it ( focus/zoom on details) and slow it down, till you get back to the DNA of pure sound and aesthetics, free from any meaning".
"Battle: Los Angeles" is a lot more fun than bludgeoning, soul-draining follies like "Terminator Salvation" or the "Transformers" films, and, with a decisive trim, it could truly have fulfilled its brief as a bright, semi-abstract pop fantasy, at once excitable and disposable.
Instead he was filled with peace and joy -- words that, up until then, I had only known in the abstract, in the fantasy of Christmas carols and Hallmark cards.
In contrast with the band's generally straightforward recordings for the Autumn label, Triangles lyrics are more abstract, containing Tolkienesque fantasy elements and dream-like characters, such as the gypsy in "Only Dreaming Now", the "Painter of Women", "The Keeper of Time", and "The Wolf of Velvet Fortune", as well as the destination of "Magic Hollow".
