Definition of "semiabstract" []

• Of or relating to an art form characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter. (adjective)

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• "She will have at least two dozen watercolor, acrylic and mixed media works of art on display for sale, including portraits and other paintings in artistic styles that she describes as semiabstract, abstract-symbolism or dreamscape."
• "A 1951 bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, the British sculptor known for his large-sale, semiabstract human figures, sold for $30.1 million—a record price for the artist—to Cologne-based dealer Alex Lachmann."
• "When Jesús Soto 1923-2005 arrived in Paris in 1950, on a government scholarship from his native Venezuela, he was a semiabstract landscape painter just getting out from under a big debate among Latin American artists: Should modern art concentrate on leftist social commentary and try to make the continent a better place for ordinary people, or should it go abstract in pursuit of a universal truth and risk devolving into bourgeois escapism?"