nonrepresentational
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- of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical natureOpposite representationalSimilar geometric, conventional, protogeometric, abstract, semiabstract, hieraticSee also abstract
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
nonrepresentational adjective
Art not intended to realistically represent a physical object; — of visual art work. Opposite of representational. [Narrower terms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective ; conventional, formal, schematic ; geometric, geometrical ; protogeometric ; semiabstract ] Also See: abstract. Syn. — nonobjective.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5