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Meanings of representational in English

(Used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen.

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Examples for "nonrepresentational"
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When it's just the player and whatever nonrepresentational, bizarre space the designer can cook up, fascinating things happen.
Wired
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The readiness of American physicists to accept even the abstract, nonrepresentational features of the new atomic physics surprised Paul much less than it did me.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
Usage of representational in English
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I'm more partial to uh, representational art, landscapes and stuff, you know?
Deadly little secrets
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This paper describes a patient with pure representational neglect restricted to far space.
Pubmed
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The model reconciles procedural and representational accounts of the specificity-of-learning phenomenon.
Pubmed
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Tagliapietra, who had never worked in representational forms, had to be persuaded also.
The new yorker
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The 73-year-old has since retired for representational politics, citing ill health.
Jamaica Observer
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True, most representational painters from life are inescapably aware of Freud.
The Irish Times
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The only painting she really liked was nineteenth-century representational photographic painting.
A Russian Journal
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More abstractly, other intimations of measurement intrude into the representational images.
The Irish Times
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It was drab and gray and somewhat representational of a vase of flowers.
The unincorporated man
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And it's not because Smith's paintings are more abstract than representational.
The Irish Times
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He sees no future whatever for realist or representational art.
The new yorker
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Profound, but hardly representational of the beliefs of the majority.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Chavannes's faraway, mysterious figures influenced the classicism of some of Picasso's early representational paintings.
The Guardian
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It's not that they are difficult: they are representational, and his primary subject is landscape.
The Irish Times
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Gustave Courbet was the iconoclast of representational art, smashing through the barrier of subject matter.
The Irish Times
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It started as representational, but has become quite expressionist.
The South African
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