Carter's art form is truly choreography, but also theater, visual art and living abstract film; audience members are within the work, even when the work is not designed to be interactive.
Representations of hell have always worked to reveal the shapes of our lives, abstract landscapes meant to describe the felt and suspected landscapes within us.
Or it can happen when you look at a bank statement and contemplate the terrible potency of those strings of digits, their ability to dictate everything from what you eat to where you live — the abstract numerals whose consequences are the least abstract thing in the world.
Nevertheless, we could live without abstract terms.
While Neel's contemporaries and friends in New York, where she lived, were making abstract painting or pop art, she stuck doggedly to painting portraits throughout her life, capturing not only the city's artistic milieu of which she was part, but bundles of fragility and uncertainty within it.
During the 1920s he was associated with the Surrealists, and in 1930 he briefly joined the short-lived abstract artists' Cercle et Carré ("Circle and Square") group.
Instead, they base their beliefs in different sources, in compassion, psychology and lived experience instead of abstract thought.
But we live in an abstract universe and it's pure abstraction I'm after".
JON CARAMANICA German Abstracts Born in New York The German abstract artist Blinky Palermo lived and worked in New York from 1973 until the spring of 1976, the year before he died, at 33.
But human beings don't live in the abstract.
He had spent four decades, he said, living "in the abstract".
