nonobjective
Americanadjective
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not objective.
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Fine Arts. not representing objects known in physical nature; nonrepresentational.
some nonobjective works by Kandinsky and Mondrian.
adjective
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Origin of nonobjective
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I admit it is fun, liberating even, to be nonobjective.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
More than 50 years later, as his students flop and fly about, making nonobjective sounds and breaking their internal rhythms, what Yakim teaches may look flat-out insane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2020
In its less drastic forms, it is still somewhat miraculous: a nonobjective, emotional event within a factual, emotionless environment.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2018
His version of abstraction bears the same relationship to the traditional nonobjective thing as his portraits do to conventional portraiture.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity.
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