nonfigurative
Americanadjective
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It can flow between figurative and nonfigurative without losing its content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Two nonfigurative pieces manage to appear simultaneously fractured and exalted.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
And although this work is nonfigurative and even technically imageless, it very clearly suggests bound or bandaged flesh.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
These artists weren’t concerned with either the epic or, although their work was nonfigurative, the abstract in any pointed way, and pitting the Shiraga against masterpieces that supremely embody both feels beyond maladroit: cruel.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
It is telling that he called his nonfigurative paintings from 1960-1966 "Synthetic Abstractions," alluding to the Cubist approach of building up form.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2012
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