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nonrepresentational

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Would the President make this statement in his 1st month in office, make this a bit of a nonrepresentational statement?

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Not representational.

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adjective

Not representational.

adjective

(art) That does not represent a physical object realistically.

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Example sentences

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Would the President make this statement in his 1st month in office, make this a bit of a nonrepresentational statement?

2

In fact, some artists who paint completely from their imagination or who create nonrepresentational art have this exact objection to just painting what you see (even without photographic reference), which they don't find interesting because it's not creative enough for them.

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I remember reading somewhere, maybe in an essay by John Updike, that Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, who aimed to produce purely nonrepresentational paintings, had to be careful that face-like figures did not appear in their works unintentionally.

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How do you use nonrepresentational in a sentence?

Would the President make this statement in his 1st month in office, make this a bit of a nonrepresentational statement?

What does nonrepresentational mean?

Not representational.

What part of speech is nonrepresentational?

nonrepresentational is commonly used as adjective.