abstractionism

NOUN
  1. a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
  2. an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
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How To Use abstractionism In A Sentence

  • Aristotelian answers anticipated only one side of the medieval discussions: the mundane, philosophical theory of universals, in terms of Aristotelian abstractionism. The Medieval Problem of Universals
  • The other side gallery, for figurative works made while abstractionism and later -isms reigned in the 1940s through the '80s, falls apart even more quickly. An Uneven Span Across Time
  • After the pictorial revolutions of Cubism and abstractionism, it was no longer possible to pretend that surface and structure could unproblematically be melded in the production of a representational picture space.
  • And materialism is as much the enemy of art as abstractionism.
  • Therefore, either realism or abstractionism or modern arts has an inseparable relation with visual experience.
  • Free traders were accused of abstractionism; in the words of one book at the time: Ian Fletcher: America Aping Britain's Historic Decline Through Free Trade
  • My fourth-graders had been studying painting periods such as Romanticism, impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstractionism and Surrealism.
  • Famously, the two main options in the metaphysics of modality are David Lewis '(so-called extreme) modal realism, and ersatzism (or actualism, or abstractionism) in its various forms. Impossible Worlds
  • In general, the show boxed the compass under the four strong winds of realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism.
  • But ethics without practical application only lead to the sterile formalism and abstractionism of scholastic thought.
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