Adjective
(used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen
Source: WordNetOne of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' Ludwig Wittgenstein
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point. Ben Nicholson
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible. Mark Rothko
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. Daniel Levitin
We were still attached to the representational image. We cut into the form, the different angles from which it could be seen, the perspective. The object turned in our hands, we turned round it. We were tortured by this mystery of form. Albert Gleizes
The origin of money is something to do with representational thinking. Alan Moore