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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art

abstraction. ‘In the fine arts, the practice or state of freedom from representational qualities; a work of art with these characteristics’ (OED). Some critics prefer to restrict the term to those types of abstract art that have their starting-point in the external world—in other words, those in which the image is ‘abstracted’ or distilled from the appearance of some real object or scene. Usually, however, the term is used as a convenient synonym for abstract art as a whole.

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