In the Wakashan province, representative art was frankly sculptural, impressionistic, and bold.
Their Coast Salish neighbours used some, but less, representative art, similar if looser in style.
Reporting on two Christie's auctions this week, Souren shows how the meeting of East and West centuries ago yielded decorative and representative art.
The Greek philosopher Plato and the Roman philosopher Plotinus had also dismissed representative art as an "imitation of nature"—i.e., as something removed from reality.
On Puget Sound there was little representative art; the abstract painted designs on the canoe boards were unlike anything else in the region.
It is, by necessity, pure hypothesis: Neanderthals lived (in Europe) between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago and left no clues in the form of a written record or even any kind of representative art.
The Koran does not specifically condemn representative art, but it has a lot to say about paganism and idolatry; and Islam is correspondingly wary of anything that could become an idol or detract from the worship of God alone.
Building a National Showcase Mr. Brown was also expert at leveraging the gallery's status as the nation's representative art museum to appeal to the patriotism of donors and, more or less aggressively, to twist the arms of foreign governments and United States presidents.
Because it views art in terms of "revelation," it favors representative art and is suspicious of formalist avant-gardes.
The Caliph, despite his own spiritual distaste for representative art, protected John against several attempts by Christian partisans to have him murdered.
