nonfigurative

How To Use nonfigurative In A Sentence

• Any Object we see is Abstract, because it is composed of an infinite number of indefinable, unrecognizable, nonfigurative, shadowy, intangible, imperceptible and undetectable 'points' or 'areas' and all these areas do not, and cannot, allow any human being to perceive them or relate to them in any meaningful manner. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
• Though mostly nonfigurative, it wasn't abstract, not really. Puppetry With a (Basil) Twist
• Yet the artists he persuaded to join his groundbreaking venture — each of them firmly embedded in the nonfigurative abstraction that so rapidly became the fashionable art of that time — must have felt some strong pull toward giving the congregants something recognizable. Abstraction in the Synagogue
• The nonfigurative art of the twentieth century is strikingly forecast in CHANCE IMAGES
• ‘Remove the human and you get dehumanized art,’ he declared in a 1994 interview, responding to a question about the viability of nonfigurative art.
• When Gombrich applies the term to nonfigurative art, surely he means, as he himself put it, "an art form that still has to prove its potentialities," [4] in other words, a dubious venture artificially puffed by critics and theoreticians. 'The Sense of Order': An Exchange
• Diamond states that this nonfigurative tactic "is absolutely unprecedented in Indian art. The Seattle Times
• Yet the artists he persuaded to join his groundbreaking venture each of them firmly embedded in the nonfigurative abstraction that so rapidly became the fashionable art of that time must have felt some strong pull toward giving the congregants something recognizable. Abstraction in the Synagogue
• Twombly was a nonfigurative artist from the outset. Gods Are In The Details
• The gods and goddesses, Buddhas, and elegant bodhisattvas that predominated in earlier centuries appear to be supplanted by intricate but almost entirely nonfigurative calligraphy, carpets, textiles, and glazed ceramics. Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful