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From non- + painting.
nonpainting (not comparable)
- (chiefly art) Not painting; other than painting
2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times[1]:The nonpainting trends of those years have been relentlessly celebrated and valorized by museums, art historians and biennials.
