Sentences with phrase «abstract language refers»

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Because all language involves a process of abstracting certain elements in experience out of the total complex in which they occur, it is necessarily analogical and therefore imprecise: a word never refers to an absolutely discrete entity.

Denny's work often refers to the psychology and abstract language of the new media economy, invoking «clouds» of big data and the constant pressure to «update» our lives.

But the abstract art which we generally refer to as a new visual language originated from around the late 19th century.

The crackling, pentimenti, and blushed varnishes that Purdy has created on the surface of the paintings may be seen to be formal elements in the pictorial language, referring to the role of surface and mark in twentieth - century abstract painting.

Roberts» works translate found, quotidian language into abstract, patterned structures, which she refers to as «illuminated manuscripts of the everyday.»