abstraction

Born in the 19th century, Brancusi made his career in 20th century Paris, his work the epitome of Modernist abstraction.

Both brains and slugs use the same chemical mechanisms to develop abstractions, general rules to guide their hosts through the chaos of moment-to-moment experience.

At the same time the image is simplified to the point of abstraction.

It isn’t only because dramatic realism is broadly appealing to a public in ways modern abstraction isn’t.

In Monet’s views of the Palazzo Ducale seen from a gondola, the pale wall of the building and its block of rosy reflection threaten to become an abstraction.