Robert Smithson, in his conceptualization of abstract art, specifically works against this tendency of re-facializing (or here anthropomorphizing) the absolute. It's a tendency that goes back to the origins of hermetic philosophy, which finds ways to mirror the microcosm in the macrocosm and vice-versa. For Smithson, abstract-expressionism--the art-world index of a heroic struggle with the absolute-- blocks the experience of space and infinity, and instead foregrounds the individual, the biological, and the humanly expressive.
"There is nothing abstract about deKooning or Pollock. To locate them in a formalist system is simply a critical mutation based on a misunderstanding of metaphor--namely, the biological extended into the spatial. . . . [A]nthopomorphizing of space is aesthetically a 'pathetic fallacy' and is in no way abstract."
Robert Smithson, "Quasi-Infinites and the Waning of Space," fns 11 & 15