Abstract art (113 is an approximation, not an abstraction, but art is not so exact)

"Abstraction continues to be an absolutely necessary antidote or counterspell to the aesthetics of distraction, the visual noise offered by mass media and everyday life."

W.J.T. Mitchell

What gentlemen do for postmodernism ?

Clement Greenberg is synonymous with Modernist Formalism

Abstract figures ask questions in new ways, to be willing and able to take risks, and to innovate.