The phrase "abstract structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to theoretical frameworks, concepts in mathematics, or discussions about art and design.
Example: "The abstract structure of the painting invites viewers to interpret its meaning in various ways."
Alternatives: "conceptual framework" or "theoretical structure".
But unlike ante rem structuralism, no abstract structure is postulated above and beyond concrete systems.
It has an abstract structure but the smell of a story.
An abstract structure, possibly a lighthouse, dominates many of the images.
These intimate images of women in private domestic moments or tending children are as striking for their abstract structure as for their incipiently erotic sensuality (Johnson).
Her works and furniture (is it a painting or is it a chair?) are exhilarating collisions of Californian colour and abstract structure, hot and cool, formal prat-falls, painterly licks and riffs, with colour to make your eyes rock.
In 1945, Turing wrote up a plan for building a computer which contained everything from the abstract structure down to the circuit diagrams and a cost estimate of eleven thousand two hundred pounds.
Like Robert Delaunay and unlike the Cubists, Marin didn't so much dissect reality into a shimmering abstract structure as knock it about, exaggerating both its implicit unceasing motion and the unstable effects of light and human perception.
With their obliquely cropped compositions, their flat, richly colored or delicately patterned planes, and a razor sharp, exquisitely nuanced line, Cassatt created a kind of European-Japanese hybrid as striking for its abstract structure as for its incipiently erotic sensuality.
Someone like Pat Metheny has both exceptional "muscle memory" (which is really brain rewiring that comes from deliberate practice) and a clear sense of how automatic habits relate to a larger, more abstract structure or concept.
An airy, almost completely abstract structure of steel rods and a chunky bronze primate whose face is cast from a model car testify to an nearly inhuman range of aesthetic inventiveness.
Lily argues effectively for nonrepresentational but emotive art, and her painting (in which mother and child are reduced to two shapes with a line between them) echoes the abstract structure of Woolf's profoundly elegiac novel.
