- abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective - not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"
Antonym: representational (indirect, via nonrepresentational)
- abstractionist, abstract artist - a painter of abstract pictures
--1 is a kind of painter
--1 has particulars:suprematist; Albers, Josef Albers; Mondrian, Piet Mondrian