The phrase "abstract mark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to branding, trademarks, or design, where an abstract representation is being referred to.
Example: "The logo features an abstract mark that symbolizes innovation and creativity."
Alternatives: "symbolic representation" or "conceptual emblem".
According to the artists, they are "re-imagining the negation of a censoring blur as an abstract mark available for use".
Crafts students had a tendency to use drawing for a wider range of functions: expressively, through abstract mark making; for accuracy, when recording observations or working out details of a making project; or open-endedly, as a means to explore and identify opportunities for further investigations.
Up close, however, the image dissolves into abstract marks, forcing the eye to oscillate between the detail and the whole.
MARK FOX Giddily elaborate painted-and-cut-paper constructions gang together little figures, abstract marks, and lots and lots of words.
Here are paintings that take illusionistic perspectives on abstract marks and paintings that dissolve the most banal of subjects into an almost hallucinatory maze of brushstrokes.
She drew compulsively, in black ink, forging a language of abstract marks — straight or curved lines, circles, cones, arcs, stars, directional arrows — and putting them together in groups.
"Faced with branding a holding company with an intentionally vague mission," he said, "the designers probably opted to explore a lot of purely abstract marks.
Suzanne in the conservatory is as suave as a Degas but for the jungle of abstract marks growing around her; two paintings – two kinds of painting – in one.
The symbols run the gamut, from abstract marks like those of Canal Metro (a Spanish broadcaster) and Chase Manhattan Bank, to the unmistakable penguin of Penguin Books, to the heraldic lion shield of the Danish police.
With this exhibition, the artist gives abstract mark-making some quantitative and measurable meaning.
It is described as a "pure graphic mark on a gray ground" as well as a "totality of abstract marks".
