The phrase "abstract themes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or ideas that are not concrete or tangible, often in the context of literature, art, or philosophy.
Example: "The novel explores several abstract themes, including the nature of existence and the concept of time."
Alternatives: "conceptual themes" or "theoretical themes".
These two streams in her education – artistic and anatomical – enabled her to ground in observed reality her more abstract themes: identity, desire, memory, power and resistance.
"Ann's amazing charisma and character are great mechanisms for a filmmaker to examine some of the more abstract themes about women in political life," said Adam J. Fowler, the film's director.
Other artists, working in everything from spray paint to mosaic, chose abstract themes, nature scenes, and portraits of local luminaries, including a 38-foot-high painting of the Indiana native Kurt Vonnegut by the local muralist Pamela Bliss.
This native drama had been able to assimilate French popular farce, clerically inspired morality plays on abstract themes, and interludes or short entertainments that made use of the "turns" of individual clowns and actors.
If Mr Clinton is in his element chairing a town hall discussion on race, or empathising with the victims of a school shooting, Mr Gore is drawn to long-run, abstract themes.
More important, he sees Dickinson pressing through something personally and artistically imperative during these years, which resulted in her favoring verse on abstract themes over first-person narratives: Dickinson "had for the time being stopped trying to tell her story".
Indeed, even the convention's slightly abstract theme -- "Renewing America's Purpose.
Water was the ideal abstract theme for Hockney because it was so humanly alluring to the partially clothed body.
Pictures from Ms. Harper's "Flug" ("Flight") series can seem like so many variations on a blurry, brooding abstract theme.
One spectacular sequence was devoted entirely to images of the moon in the night sky: variations on a nearly abstract theme.
I've never seen being "universal" as a task, any more than I've ever really pursued any abstract theme.
