Shapes/forms created with no regard to an identifiable subject or object.

(1) Abstract art carried to it's ultimate extreme eliminating all natural appearing objects even as subject beginnings. (2) A type of art in which the form and the creative act become the subject matter.

An art work that has no recognizable images in it.

In art, not representing any object, figure, or element in nature, in any way; nonrepresentational.

Completely non-representational; pure design; fully abstract.

A type of artwork in which no elements bear a likeness to natural objects or recognizable images.

Art that is purely an arrangement of line, color, shape, form, or texture and that does not show any recognizable person, place, or thing. [ ] OCCULT--Ideas having to do with the supernatural and mysterious; specifically, in the early 20th Century, a system of Ohidden truthsO leading to metaphysical revelations.

Describing art in which visual form is used without reference to anything outside of itself; also called nonrepresentational. Compare and contrast NATURALISTIC and ABSTRACT and STYLIZED.

art whose subject matter does not resemble an object. Non-objective art ranges between Abstract Expressionist artists to Minimalists or Op-artists. Non-objective art is a representation of emotions, concepts, or ideas that are otherwise not visually expressed.