You See Abstract Art Every Day.

You don't think you're one for abstract art? Think again. You're looking at it right now. The alphabet itself is abstracted from imagery from ancient times. 

For example, the letter "A" is from a picture of the head of a bull, turned upside down.

I admit that pouring paint on a canvass from a ladder may be a fraud, but since the beginning of history, mankind has been much helped by the ability to render things into a more malleable or quickly represented abstract form.

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