abstract art

1. 1.

   an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation

   Synonymsabstractionism

   Broadergenre

   Narrowerop art

Questions about abstract art

What does abstract art mean?

abstract art means "an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation".

What is another word for abstract art?

Close synonyms include abstractionism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abstract art a common word?

abstract art is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.