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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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A fatal attraction

one whom is willing to put not only their life at risk for a fictional relationship, but everyone elses around them(including the partner)
Self abuse-to put a partner in jail (setting a partner up if other partner the choose to brake the relationship off, inorder to punish the partner)often resulting in incarceration
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fairground attraction

1 = A tedious shit retro style one hit wonder band from the late 1980`s. Know for their it "Perfect"

2 = Scummy and chavvy under 16 girls that hang around the waltzers or Dodgems for a "slice of the damp" with the Gyppo pikey lads who spin the cars or park the dogems. Allways seen wearing dirty Kappa tracksuits, knackered Reebok trainers & Elizabeth Duke jewelery.
"Fuck me Chris, look at them slappers over there sitting on the Waltzer steps!"

"Aye Jim, deffo case of fairground attraction gannin on there mate"
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fatal attraction

you like (name)? talk about a fatal attraction
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magnetic attraction

This is a phrase to describe people liking each other in a romantic way but however they are not sure whether the love is real or not thus , they do not date each other but they like each other and they know it. It is like friends with benefits but no sexual actions is involved. This is noticed when two people look at each other constantly and may or may not involve "stalking".
You and Cheryl have magnetic attraction on each other right..? You guys look so cute together!!!
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a hot boys attraction to a preppy, good-girl, Abrecrombie-wearing girl who gets into boys heads that makes them wear sweaters and turn into chicks with dicks.
"that boy has just an attraction to douchettes, i bet his penis got smaller just looking at her"
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abstraction

Polite way of say "bullshit" in academia.
That paper is all abstraction: the author didn't say anything at all.
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