| 释义 |
non-ˈfigurative, a.
[non- 3.]
Not figurative; spec. in art = abstract A. 4 d. So non-figuˈration.
1927O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. xiv. 294 Play in the non-figurative sense has often to: he played Beethoven to us. 1934Burlington Mag. Aug. 94/1 Cubism or non-figurative art is dismissed as an ephemeral movement. 1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art iii. 40 Until painting became non-figurative, the spatial configuration which the painter registered upon his canvas consisted of forms that could be read as illusionistic references to real objects; objects, that is, that were external to the picture. Ibid. 41 In 1945 pure non-figuration began to predominate in Paris. 1961Guardian 16 Nov. 7/4 Abstract pattern deriving from Islamic ornament..to transcend..Western non-figuration. 1962Listener 19 July 94/1 The non-figurative painter avoids stereotypes by means of marks and shapes, the interpretation of which is arbitrary, since the truly non-figurative is infinitely ambiguous. |