English > nonrepresentational: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature. |
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| Category | art, artistic creation, artistic production | The creation of beautiful or significant things |
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| Narrower | abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective | not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature |
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| 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 |
| protogeometric | characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece |
| semiabstract | Characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter |
| See also | abstract | Existing only in the mind |
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| Opposite | representational | (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen |
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