Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an art form characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter.
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- adjective art Not entirely
abstract ; between abstract andconcrete
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- adjective characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter
Etymologies
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Examples
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She will have at least two dozen watercolor, acrylic and mixed media works of art on display for sale, including portraits and other paintings in artistic styles that she describes as semiabstract, abstract-symbolism or dreamscape.
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She will have at least two dozen watercolor, acrylic and mixed media works of art on display for sale, including portraits and other paintings in artistic styles that she describes as semiabstract, abstract-symbolism or dreamscape.
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She will have at least two dozen watercolor, acrylic and mixed media works of art on display for sale, including portraits and other paintings in artistic styles that she describes as semiabstract, abstract-symbolism or dreamscape.
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A 1951 bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, the British sculptor known for his large-sale, semiabstract human figures, sold for $30.1 million—a record price for the artist—to Cologne-based dealer Alex Lachmann.
A Week of Roller-Coaster Art Sales Kelly Crow 2012
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When Jesús Soto 1923-2005 arrived in Paris in 1950, on a government scholarship from his native Venezuela, he was a semiabstract landscape painter just getting out from under a big debate among Latin American artists: Should modern art concentrate on leftist social commentary and try to make the continent a better place for ordinary people, or should it go abstract in pursuit of a universal truth and risk devolving into bourgeois escapism?
Sowing Seeds of Discussion Peter Plagens 2012
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A semiabstract watercolor of an apple tree, with a small brown H in the bottom corner.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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They knew that these semiabstract forms against the opacity of the large monitor were Whiskey 2-2 and not some group of actual goatherders by virtue of the cruciform that kept the camera nailed.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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A semiabstract watercolor of an apple tree, with a small brown H in the bottom corner.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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But the 1963 "Le Nozze di Figaro" (VAI 4519), directed by veteran Gustav Rudolf Sellner, with painterly, semiabstract sets by Michael Raffaelli, is a sparkling, tightly woven piece of ensemble playing.
New DVDs let you savor 1960s Salzburg Festival productions of Mozart operas 2010
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Mr. Bearden (1911-1988) was best known for his semiabstract collages, which echo Cubist influences and are typically comprised of photographs and painted paper.
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