nonrepresentational
- a of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
- For this some of them might share the blame, since to the naked eye of the average publisher nonrepresentational painting is not much use as illustration.
- His forms are abstract; but as the artist points out, the Arab also gilds his mosques and minarets with nonrepresentational decoration.
- Dove was the first American, and possibly the first artist of any nationality, to paint a nonrepresentational picture.