The phrase "abstract marks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to art, design, or communication where symbols or representations are not concrete or literal.
Example: "The artist's work is filled with abstract marks that evoke a sense of emotion and movement."
Alternatives: "symbolic representations" or "non-representational signs".
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.
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.
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.
"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.
With this exhibition, the artist gives abstract mark-making some quantitative and measurable meaning.
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.
In others there are passages of brushy Abstract Expressionistic marks or lines defining Cubist spaces.
Brahms's symphonic passacaglia is when I can explain the meaning of those "abstract" quotation marks.
