Rather, it means rising above such abstract concerns in order to tackle the problems that vex ordinary people.
Despite the rising popularity of Abstract Expressionism, she was showing at the city's pre-eminent galleries and her work was accepted into several annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
A street-side view of their remodeled 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-footveals a large, angular, three-bedroomsm, plain and abstract, rising out of its own sloping shouse.
In two, she poses outdoors with one of Smith's monumental abstract sculptures rising up in the distance between her legs.
The abstract rose window will be replaced with a figurative window, 10 feet in diameter, depicting the resurrection of Jesus.
By a happy bit of symbolism, the museum's classical columns will appear to rise from the abstract, transparent semicircle of the new roof, as if the founding ideas of the Beaux-Arts have at least been accorded their proper place.
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They run from "Elevated" (1929-30), a powerful abstract impression of rising girders and structural supports, to "Successful People" (1931), a cartoonish study of a very snooty couple, perhaps at the opera.
These concrete groups soon gave rise to abstract groups, which were described axiomatically.
In the forties, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York overtook Paris as the center of the avant-garde.
