The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonrepresentational \nonrepresentational\ adj. (Art) not intended to realistically represent a physical object; -- of visual art work. Opposite of representational. [Narrower terms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective ; {conventional, formal, schematic ; {geometric, geometrical ; {protogeometric ; {semiabstract ] Also See: {abstract.
Syn: nonobjective.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not representational. 2 (context arts English) That does not represent a physical object realistically.
WordNet
adj. art [ant: representational]
Usage examples of "nonrepresentational".
Almost every call was thrillingly for her, since she had become the local Saint Joan of Arc in a holy war against nonrepresentational art.
Our experience with Rorschach and other psychological projective tests is that different people see the same nonrepresentational image in different ways.
I know little about painting, but I could see that the image before him was a stark, nonrepresentational flare of colors and he was picking at it with the precision of a pointillist.