nonfigurative

As a carpet destined for religious use, it has an elaborate, nonfigurative design in 10 colors.

Ms. Kahn is also quite adept at making largely nonfigurative paintings.

Then there are the nonfigurative motifs: the square, the circle, the zigzag and the triangle.

He also started painting nonfigurative art.

In 1979 restoration revealed 16th century nonfigurative frescoes from the Age of Reformation.

Critics have described it as an abstract underwater puppet show, though in its nonfigurative way it told a story that was very clear.

Avant-garde movements rapidly evolved and overlapped in a march towards nonfigurative, total abstraction.

The group of seven gathered at the Feitelson's home to discuss a group exhibition of this nonfigurative painting style.

From 1912 to 1914, he painted nonfigurative paintings based on the optical characteristics of brilliant colors that were so dynamic they would function as the form.

The rarely exhibited 68 works at Deitch show how figurative painting of the 1980s evolved from the nonfigurative nonpainting of the 1970s.

Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms.

Then they embarked on a new collection, focusing strictly on nonfigurative objects like furniture, neck rests, stools and beadwork.

She came to New York around 1950, when Abstract Expressionism was in its heyday, and she quickly adopted the nonfigurative language of the neighborhood avant-garde.

Taking advantage of the popularity of abstraction in the international market, the government turned around and sold the nonfigurative paintings in the West to gain hard currency.

The words "longing" and "mourning" do have correspondents in other language, but the nonfigurative character remains undecipherable and defines the specificity of the Romanian soul.

Most of that imagery was nonfigurative, the gels and water and oil baths, the bubbles, but it was right because there was great control of rhythm.

This time the objects that caught their eye were the nonfigurative containers, weapons, textiles, furniture and jewelry made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Africa.

He experimented at that time with various forms of spontaneous and gestural nonfigurative painting, his works gradually becoming more involved with interactions and contrast of colours.

The design may be figurative or nonfigurative, may depict Biblical themes, history, literature; or present symbolic motifs including flora, fauna, landscape or abstracts designs.

He also dismissed Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and made no secret of his deep distaste for the whole range of nonfigurative postwar art movements.

She exhibited in the Twentieth Century Art exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1914, one of the first British artists to point in a nonfigurative style.

In trying to decide what to call this show, Mr. Rosenthal considered many terms for abstract art, everything from nonfigurative to concrete, but found abstraction to bethe most enduring term.

Portrait production in Europe (excluding Russia) and the Americas generally declined in the 1940s and 1950s, a result of the increasing interest in abstraction and nonfigurative art.

In the Paula Cooper Gallery, Mr. Durant has installed one-third-scale reproductions of all the monuments(above), all nonfigurative variations on the obelisk and painted gray.

"There you know it's a church only by virtue of the height of the ceiling and the stained glass windows, and even those are nonfigurative, just colored glass," Mr. Miller said.