Sentence examples for to be abstraction from inspiring English sources

WHEN Dara Meyers-Kingsley was invited to curate ArtsWestchester's annual exhibition of Westchester artists, she knew that the theme of the show was to be abstraction.

If you copy Chanin's period details, as Mr. Childs did in earlier versions, the design ceases to be abstraction and becomes representation.

The new language turned out to be abstraction, and though many artists — Picasso, Stravinsky and Balanchine, the 20th century's towering geniuses, among them — flirted with the classical revival, most moved on, with few exceptions.

Art and music have such potent effects that they cease to be abstractions and become characters.

Some images — umbilical coils of roiling fire from the surface of the Sun or Martian dunes with dark spots marking the melting of carbon-dioxide frost — almost appear to be abstractions, bearing little resemblance to anything familiar.

Yet neither the tiger, nor the element gold, can plausibly be said to be abstractions in the manner of attributes.

The two subsequent videos, Tesserae 02 and Tesserae 03 & 04 predominately display familiar compositions of hard-edged geometric abstraction visited by animated pictures so discreetly integrated within the lines of the abstraction that they seem at first glance to be abstractions themselves.

But Balanchine, like other choreographers, refused to accept that there can be abstraction when there are humans onstage.

So mathematicians consider real numbers to be an abstraction on exactly the same logical level as imaginary numbers.

Only then will the public get the lesson when genetics ceases to be an abstraction and becomes relevant to their lives.

A sky full of shooting stars is revealed to be an abstraction of an image of the children flying into the sky.