The phrase "abstract gestures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe non-specific or conceptual movements that do not have a concrete form or meaning, often in artistic or communicative contexts.
Example: "The dancer's performance was filled with abstract gestures that conveyed deep emotions without the need for words."
Alternatives: "conceptual movements" or "symbolic actions".
Instrumental efficiency was evaluated by gestural praxis assessment (symbolic gestures, pantomimes and abstract gestures), the Rey complex figure [ 40], the picture naming test (DO 80) [ 41] and the Visual Object and Space Perception Battery (VOSP) [ 42].
At the edges of the canvases, abstract gestures resembling Asian calligraphy occasionally resolve into swastikas.
As for the "normal" paintings: On the second floor, their loose, abstract gestures contrast with the considered craft of the rug.
To call him a robot would be too simple, and his expressive grimaces and abstract gestures hint at the human inside the futuristic figure.
Like many other painters these days, Mr. Virtue combines elements of the photographic and the painterly in his work: smudges, drips, slushy brushstrokes and seemingly random abstract gestures overlay crisply outlined sections of near photorealistic detail.
Baziotes urged me to throw away my small brushes and stop painting my derivative Cezannes, go to a hardware store, buy a five-inch house-painter's brush and paint abstract marks; he believed abstract gestures could contain every nuance of an artist's feelings.
Mr. Jones's decorative designs are abstract, gesturing to the religious legacy of body painting while at the same time being above or outside that world.
The closest the works in this show come to traditional art is a series of canvases by Don Leicht, for whom the wall is a motif against which to act out dramas of urban angst, and Shinique Smith's "Ode to Shakin,"' a cut-paper relief that fuses readable calligraphy with abstract gesture.
Represented on the Bard program by last year's "Lux," so joyously expansive on this big stage, and by "Castles," those pieces are intricately plotted dance scrums, streams whose coursing motion eddies around outcroppings of emotional coloring and characterization and of odd bits of abstract gesturing.
In work that shows that teaching students gestures can help them to adopt new problem-solving strategies, as detailed earlier, Goldin-Meadow, Cook, and Mitchell (2009) used an abstract gesture to help 9- to 10-year-old children solve mathematical-equivalence problems such as 4 + 3 + 6 = __ + 6.
I made an abstract gesture toward my heart.
