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nonrepresentational

[ non-rep-ri-zen-tey-shuh-nl ]

adjective

  1. not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature:

    a nonrepresentational painting.



nonrepresentational

/ ˌnɒnrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃənəl /

adjective

  1. art another word for abstract
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • nonrep·re·sen·tation·al·ism noun
  • nonrep·re·sen·tation·al·ist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nonrepresentational1

First recorded in 1920–25; non- + representational
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Example Sentences

Alfred Leslie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker who turned his back on nonrepresentational art in the early 1960s to lead a revival of figurative painting, died on Friday in Brooklyn.

His immediate artistic forebears, including Jackson Pollock and the other nonrepresentational painters of the 1950s, had already thoroughly upended the notion of painting as a recognizable picture.

The blossoms in her new artwork jostle with nonrepresentational imagery, and are often deployed in fanciful ways.

Among the paintings are two nonrepresentational ones — “Blue Abstract” and “Orange Abstract” — that are among the show’s most striking entries.

Sarcasm warming into insight was the hallmark of the style, which borrowed the nonrepresentational techniques of midcentury drama and wed it to a psychological acuity rarely before seen in American musicals.

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