A fork of Rural Dictionary
A form of art that allows plenty of freedom and flexibility for both the artist and audience to their own interpretation of the art's meaning and value. It is to not simply portray or replicate something of its realistic form but give insights to its value in a different dimension of thinking.
Even though everybody is looking at the same abstract painting, but each individual interprets it differently.
Of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc...
Sam drew a circle using his red crayon, and drew an overlapping square on the circle using his yellow crayon. ABSTRACT!
Basically it can be used sarcastically as another way of saying your art piece sucks.. Or it can be said as a compliment; it just depends on how you take it.
Jeff: (extreme smile) DUDE CHECK THIS OUT Sarah: (nods) Nice Jeff, that's very..um..abstract. Jeff: Wow. Thanks ._. or Jeff: I KNOW RIGHT.
When somebody doesn't want you to take something seriously, they tell you to think abstract. So concrete thinking would be solid, or tight thinking, and abstract thinking would be liquid, or loose thinking (flexible).
The girl wanted to turn the guy into a goofus like her, so she told him his thinking wasn't abstract enough.
Analysis of both district-level and aggregate time-series data from postwar House elections supports the thesis that strategic political elites play a pivotal role in translating national conditions into election results and therefore in holding members of Congress collectively accountable for the government's performance. More high-quality candidates run when prospects appear to favor their party; they also win significantly more votes and victories than other candidates in equivalent circumstances. Thus, strategic career decisions both reflect and enhance national partisan tides. The electoral importance of strategic politicians has grown over time in tandem with the trend toward candidate-centered electoral politics. This has rendered the effects of national forces less automatic, more contingent, thus threatening the capacity of elections to enforce some degree of collective responsibility.
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game in which the theme is not important to the experience of playing.Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, Go, checkers and draughts, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess), Reversi (marketed as "Othello"), nine men's morris, and most mancala variants, fit into this category.As J. Mark Thompson wrote in his article "Defining the Abstract", play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other:1
Name famed A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip refers to himself as. Originally The Abstract Poet and Kamaal the Abstract.
The Abstract: 'cant help bein funky, im the funky abstract brotha funky in a sense, but I play the undacova once had a fettish, a fettish for some booty now im gettin funky and my rappin, thats my duty'