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The art world's permission slip to call a square a feeling.
means Existing apart from concrete reality — a concept, summary, or style of art that distills ideas rather than depicting things as they literally appear.
from From Latin abstractus, the past participle of abstrahere, 'to draw away' — built from abs- 'away' and trahere 'to drag or pull' (the same trahere that gives us tractor and traction). So an abstract idea is literally one pulled away from the physical thing it came from, leaving only the essence behind.
- first abstract
- Kandinsky's 1910s leap baffled critics and buyers alike
- word origin
- Latin abstractus, meaning drawn away
- paper abstracts
- The summary scientists read instead of the paper
- market record
- Rothko canvases sell for nine figures