With verbs there are intransitive verbs that don't take an object, and transitive verbs that do take an object.
He objected to my smoking.
There may be microscopes involved, bringing us ever closer to the heart of the matter; but even microbiology is objective, adding to knowledge by putting space between an object and its observer.
Not that I have any objection.
As for me, I have no objection.
Do you object to my idea?
I have no objection to your plan.
I object to going there.
He objected to our plan.
Do you have any objection to this plan?
Some object to his opinion.
There was no objection on his part.
There is no objection on my part.
He rejected all the objections.
Alex would correctly describe the object and color, even if he had never seen that object before.