Abstract

Abstract may refer to:

  • Abstract (law), a summary of a legal document
  • Abstract (summary), in scientific publishing
  • Abstract art, artistic works that don't attempt to represent reality or concrete subjects
  • Abstract object in philosophy
  • Abstract structure in mathematics
  • Abstract type in computer science
  • The property of an abstraction
  • Q-Tip (rapper), also known as "The Abstract"

Other articles related to "abstract":

Seven And Five Society
... lines in altogether too much of a hurry." Abstract artist Ben Nicholson joined in 1924, followed by others such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and changed the society into a ... In 1935, the group was renamed the Seven and Five Abstract Group ... Gallery in London they staged the first exhibition of entirely abstract works in Britain ...
Method (computer Science) - Abstract Methods
... An abstract method is one with only a signature and no implementation body ... Abstract methods are used to specify interfaces in some computer languages ...
Lynne Mapp Drexler
... There, she became a devotee of Abstract Expressionism, and studied with two major figures of the movement Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell ... style developed, Drexler's paintings became less strictly abstract and exhibited a synthesis of abstract and representational influences ...
Luigi Malice
1937, Naples, Italy) is an Italian abstract artist ... the Arte Informale itArte informale, an Italian art movement close to the American Abstract expressionism and to the French Art Informel or Tachisme ... Subsequently, his art took on abstract impressionism and lyrism of the colours ...
Lucienne Day
... Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns in post-war England, and was eventually celebrated worldwide ... with bright patterns inspired by contemporary abstract painters such as Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró ... She originated hundreds of colourful abstract prints for industry clients such as Heal's ...

Famous quotes containing the word abstract:

    “... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.”
    —Mary Corinna Putnam (1842–1906)

    “Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)