However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym for non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.

The collections usually highlight Avant-garde art, 20th century abstraction, and non-objective art.

The Russians invented non-objective art, and Archipenko was at the forefront of these activities in the early decades of the last century.

He develops his ideas on non-objective art and process.

Future exhibitions and publications would establish AAA as a major forum for the discussion and presentation of new abstract and non-objective art.

Sculpture, painting, mixed media, abstraction, futurist, representational and non-objective art are embraced within the overarching framework of drawings.

Mansouroff's contribution to the avant-garde in Russia was a wholly non-objective art that used elongated vertical surfaces to explore questions of space and spatial correlations.

Rebay introduced him to European avant-garde art, in particular abstract art that she felt had a spiritual and utopian aspect (non-objective art).

In 1953 Soyer co-founded the magazine Reality, published by figurative artists as a response to the prevailing influence of non-objective art.

In 1939, Solomon R. Guggenheim transformed his private collection into a public museum dedicated to the preservation and presentation of "non-objective" art.