The final stage is almost total abstraction with an emphasis on symmetry.

On the brink of total abstraction, they are saturated with a pervasive ambience that glows with mystery.

The paintings exemplify Turner's push toward the brink of total abstraction, as both scenes are almost entirely dissolved in watery sunlight.

Thompson's work in the 1960s was figurative, but in the early 1970s she moved toward total abstraction.

Other pieces, like "Glass," are beautiful visual essays in near total abstraction.

Some of his collages verge on total abstraction.

Somewhere between Cubism and Expressionism, sometimes approaching total abstraction, his lyrical work has an energy that quickly jumps to the viewer.

Mitchell was also coming to realize that her art was out of step with trends at the time, a movement to nearly total abstraction.

Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive.

Avant-garde movements rapidly evolved and overlapped in a march towards nonfigurative, total abstraction.