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lyrical abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction in painting is an opening to personal expression. The term was originally coined by Larry Aldrich 1; other sources sustain that it was Jean José Marchand and Georges Mathieu who first used the term Abstraction Lyrique in 1947 in Paris. The name "Tachisme" is sometimes used to describe this movement.

Some notable painters "inspired" in this "style" are: Wassily Kandinsky considered one of the fathers of abstraction, Paul Klee, Frank Kupka, Robert Delaunay, Mordecai Ardon, Norman Bluhm, Jean René Bazaine, Hans Hartung, Wols, Max Bill, Gunther Gerzso, Huguette Arthur Bertrand, Georges Mathieu, Jean Miotte, Ronnie Landfield and Stefan Fiedorowicz.

The emotion in my work comes from somewhere deep down, and can speak to the inner part of each person... My work is intuitive; colour is the language that I use to express an emotion. It is the interaction of colour that interests me. Stefan Fiedorowicz.
Stefan Fiedorowicz

I am a colourist who has followed the lyrical abstraction movement and I use color to convey something personal and internal... Why I choose certain objects to paint and how I illustrate them is a mystery to me. I do not think about it too much. Certain objects are close to me because of what they mean to me or what they look like, their shape. I simplify them and sometimes combine them into pleasing arrangements. I like working over the canvas surface over and over again because most of the time I am not sure of what I want, especially my abstracts done with thick colourful oils and wall scrapers. 1
by Livingston Seagul February 3, 2010
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Law of Absentee Wingmanning

If you leave two drunk people alone long enough, they will invariably make out.
The other night with Brent I just followed the Law of Absentee Wingmanning and left the bar.
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absquatulate

1. To move off in a rush; to hurry away.

2. To die.

Created from the idea, "go off and squat somewhere," from Latin ab-, "away from" + excoactus, "to sit down" + -ulus, a diminitive suffix + -atus, implying "to do."
1. "Absquatulate, or I'll fry your be-hind."

2. "Go off and absquatulate, you miserable little creep."
by knightshade May 16, 2006
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Absinthe

One of the greatest drinks ever invented. As rumor has it, Van Gough was drinking a lot of absinthe right before he cut off his own ear. As well as that, 9 shots can be fatal apparently!! Love the mystery that is.....
ABSINTHE!
(Absinthe is a tits machine of a drink!)
Just go to the supermarket and buy some. But real absinthe is always better.
by Fox JK October 15, 2006
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abstinence

Abstaining yourself from sex until you are married. It is a vow to God that you will abstain yourself for Him.
To do God's will I practice abstinence until I marry the person that He has picked for me.
by WHY IS EVERY NAME USED!! October 11, 2006
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abstrash art

1: A more accurate term for "abstract art."

2: "Art" usually consisting of scribbly lines or Picasso-esque, child-like finger painting, and otherwise meaningless, emotionless wastes of canvas over which highly discerning art afficionados "ooh" and "aah" as if they "understand what the artist was saying."
guy1: wow, look at how he communicates his tormented emotion through the use of these bold swirls of mixed paint here!

guy2: dude, it looks like a kid's scribble. this is just abstrash art.
by adrielkelsick May 14, 2007
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absconding

Indian and British English: to run away and shit.
Malik misteriwalla is absconding from jail in Thiruvananthapuram
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