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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a style of art in which natural objects are not represented realistically; abstract.
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- noun With respect to an
assignment ormission , something that is not anobjective orgoal . - adjective Not
objective ;biased .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
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Examples
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the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other major museums, was often called "nonobjective cinema," a term used to describe movies that dispense with representation and immerse the viewer in a meditative world of pure unspooling form.
NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011
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the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other major museums, was often called "nonobjective cinema," a term used to describe movies that dispense with representation and immerse the viewer in a meditative world of pure unspooling form.
NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011
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Similar nonobjective analysis is applied to the 9/11 attack: It was a strategic blunder by al Qaeda, Mr. Bergen concedes, because the U.S. response destroyed the safe haven provided by the Taliban in Afghanistan; it nearly obliterated the senior leadership of the organization; and it elicited world-wide condemnation.
America's Most Wanted Michael B. Mukasey 2011
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Make your own abstract conclusions then a make colorful impression on our remarkably nonobjective world.
Tom Gregory: LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO) Tom Gregory 2011
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Make your own abstract conclusions then a make colorful impression on our remarkably nonobjective world.
Tom Gregory: LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO) Tom Gregory 2011
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Make your own abstract conclusions then a make colorful impression on our remarkably nonobjective world.
Tom Gregory: LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO) Tom Gregory 2011
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Make your own abstract conclusions then a make colorful impression on our remarkably nonobjective world.
Tom Gregory: LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO) Tom Gregory 2011
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This show includes six nonobjective masterpieces by Malevich, including "Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" (1915), which seemingly positions us at the origin of creation, and "Mystic Suprematism" (1920-27), a precise distillation of the torsion experienced in an El Greco crucifixion.
Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011
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Make your own abstract conclusions then a make colorful impression on our remarkably nonobjective world.
Tom Gregory: LA Art Today: The Face of a Shiny Dusty City (VIDEO) Tom Gregory 2011
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Ilya Bolotowsky's "Double Diamond" (1949), with two overlapping diamond shapes and interlocking patterns of color, is as good as it gets for American nonobjective painting.
What Fed Chiefs Like Mary Anne Goley 2010
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