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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">Abstract</topic></authority><related type="narrower"><topic>Nonobjective</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>abstract</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>nonrepresentational art</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>abstraction</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>abstract artists</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>modern European fine arts styles and movements</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Abstract art</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Refers to art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature. In the strictest sense, the term refers to 20th-century Western painting, sculpture, or graphic art having subject matter that does not include forms that represent objects from the visible world. For the general concept of art in which natural forms are only simplified or changed in their representation, but not eliminated entirely, use "abstract (general art genre)." For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, use "abstraction." ]]></note></mads>