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NONREPRESENTATIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonrepresentational mean? 

NONREPRESENTATIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective NONREPRESENTATIONAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical natureplay

  Familiarity information: NONREPRESENTATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NONREPRESENTATIONAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature

Similar:

abstract; abstractionist; nonfigurative; nonobjective (not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature)

conventional; formal; schematic (represented in simplified or symbolic form)

geometric; geometrical (characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration)

hieratic (adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal)

protogeometric (characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece)

semiabstract (characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter)

Also:

abstract (existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Antonym:

representational ((used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen)


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