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n. - A painting that partially has only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content

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Usage examples (7)
  • For many Democrats in politics, the market -- the daily machinery of the private economy -- is a semi-abstraction.
  • As it turned out, the boss was conserving himself for an eruption into unaccompanied semi-abstraction that acted as a fanfare for a sumptuous Ellington medley.
  • I'd argue that the futurists with their passion for speed conveyed more about the real feeling of flying through semi-abstraction than a detailed schematic of a plane or...
  • The centrepiece of this show is a six-metre-long woodcut in which suggestions of skeletal spooks and masks are entangled within compositions reminiscent of the geometric...
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