Nonobjective art

Nonobjective art. Works that contain no reference to recognizable subjects; nonrepresentational.

nonobjective art Art that makes no reference to the natural world and that explores the inherent expressive or aesthetic potential of the formal elements--line, shape, color--and the formal compositional principles of a given medium.

nonobjective art - Artworks having no recognizable subject matter (not recognizable as such things as houses, trees, people, etc.) Also known as non-representational art.

A retrospect of over two hundred paintings and drawings by Wassily Kandinsky at the Museum of Nonobjective Art, in New York, in 1945, would have a major influence over Jackson Pollock, soon to be the leader of the Abstract Expressionist school.

The ascent to the heights of nonobjective art is arduous and painful ... but it is nevertheless rewarding. The familiar recedes ever further and further into the background ....

Malevich drew Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky (1890-1947) to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. In Malevich's words, suprematism sought "to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world.

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Geometric abstraction refers to nonobjective art that is based on reductive and geometric principles. At its purest, it seeks to strip art down to its most fundamental shapes and lines.

Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms. They are similar, although perhaps not of identical meaning.

Malevich and his followers advocated a nonobjective art that would express "pure feelng" and that, in its abstraction, would create a new spiritual dimension in art, independent of all "purpose" other than artistic.

Op Art contrasted its Abstract Expressionist ancestor by creating a nonobjective art based entirely upon patterns of lines and colors which affected the viewer's perception.

See also: Objective, Visual art, Renaissance, Modern art, Art history