Definition of nonrepresentational Nonrepresentational
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What does nonrepresentational mean?
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| nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature | ||
| representational (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen; "representational art"; "representational images" | ||
| abstract existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'" | ||
| artistic creation, artistic production, art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" | ||
| abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective, abstract existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'" | ||
| schematic, formal, conventional being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" | ||
| geometric, geometrical characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs" | ||
| hieratic adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal; "the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved" | ||
| protogeometric characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece | ||
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Wiktionary 
- nonrepresentational (Adjective)
Not representational. - nonrepresentational (Adjective)
That does not represent a physical object realistically.
