But music is not representational, and therefore its politics are usually ambiguous.
These photo mementos were usually not representational but symbolic, where only the owner knows their many layers of meaning.
My work embraces embodiment: the medium of performance here is not representational but experiential.
As with most styles of medieval monastic art, only more so, these colors announce a complex and strictly dictated (but not unalterable) representational system involving iconography, proportion, geometric structure and shading as well as the size, pose, gesture, dress and skin color of the figures involved.
It's not representational of the majority of soldiers, but it shows how hard it is to leave your kids with someone else.
I think music is the most abstract of the arts; it's not representational.
Since music is not representational, what musical passages would he take as evidence for his theory, and why?
— Abstraction is often defined as what it is not: it is not representational, not objective, not figurative, not realistic, not narrative.
And although the imagery in Fred Szymanski's animated videos is not representational, the flowing blobs of glossy gray matter do have a dreamy magic realism quality.
For staging a home, she said, "contemporary art, which is based on line, space, color, form — not representational art — has a wider appeal".
