The Collaborative International Dictionary
protogeometric
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.
WordNet
protogeometric
adj. characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece
Usage examples of "protogeometric".
Questions of date or provenance dominated: What elements in the poems were Mycenaean or protogeometric and early Greek?