The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
I'm not an abstractionist completely.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.