Abstract

Abstract is a word that has been used in forms of art (design, music, photography, production in any form, and even language), as well as law/mathmatics. The word is from Old French 'abstract', or from Latin 'abstractus', past participle of 'abstrahere.' To summarize, its formed from abs- "away" + trahere "to draw".

In the large world/concept of art, abstract often entails things that you would not normaly see in more predictable forms. The focal point of the subject may be somewhat hidden or distanced, and the style or manner its presented will be unconventional. This is sometimes done to show vague symbolism.

The concept - when compaired to realism - has less tenet and more room for the arbitrary thoughts that are less commonplace and more stimulating to a person's mind. Even though it's difficult to really define what abstract is, almost everyone ('modernists' in particular) have an unexplained idea.

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Abstract may mean:

• Abstract (law), a brief statement of the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers
• Abstract (summary), an abbreviated summary of any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline
• Abstract art, art that does not depict objects in the natural world
• Abstract class (see Abstract and Concrete classes), a class in object-oriented programming that is designed only as a parent class and from which child classes may be derived, and which is not itself suitable for instantiation
• Abstract hip hop, a subgenre of alternative hip hop distinguished principally on the content of the lyrics
• Abstract music a disambiguation page
• Abstract structure, a set of rules, properties and relationships that is defined independently of any physical objects
• 'Abstract (band)', an Italian metal band.

Abstraction, a related term, may mean:

• Abstraction, the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects
• Abstraction (computer science), a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on few concepts at a time
• Abstraction (mathematics), the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects
• Abstraction (sociology), the varying levels at which theoretical concepts can be understood