"Subjects."
depicts people or objects exactly as they appear in life
It would be art that isn't a picture of a thing or a scene, with identifiable objects in it. so Jackson Pollock's action paintings - lots of dribbles of paints - would be non-representational. Whereas landscape paintings or portraits, for example, would be representational
Every artwork before 1900 depicted something = representational. And most works after 1900.But some modern works depict nothing = not representational.So pick any art by the old masters!
It means it has no recognizable subject.
representational
representational art
Nonrepresentational art is also called non-figurative or abstract. It means a picture which does not depict anything, only shape and color. Click link for some examples! Representational (figurative) art depicts something (person, thing, landscape, etc).
depicts people or objects exactly as they appear in life
Representational art consists of pictures that depict some recognizable thing or scene. It includes portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. It is includes both realist art, which attempts to reproduce the actual appearance of the things depicted, or an idealization thereof, and expressionist art, which depicts recognizable things, but in a way that incorporates an emotional reaction to them, without attempting literal reproduction of their appearance. Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and Munch's "The Scream" are both representational, the one realistic, the other expressionistic. Representational art contrasts with abstract art.
representational art
It would be art that isn't a picture of a thing or a scene, with identifiable objects in it. so Jackson Pollock's action paintings - lots of dribbles of paints - would be non-representational. Whereas landscape paintings or portraits, for example, would be representational
imitationalism
Every artwork before 1900 depicted something = representational. And most works after 1900.But some modern works depict nothing = not representational.So pick any art by the old masters!
It means it has no recognizable subject.
Buddhist art depicts Buddhas and other notable figures; narrates the lives of all of these; and can be physical objects such as bells and stupas.
representational
Representational art depicts something a person, a landscape, a vase of flowers or whatever. Even if the vase, the person, etc are distorted, they are still depicted.Surrealist paintings depict common things or strange things or fantastic things, but still they depict something you can see.In the first period of Cubism Braque and Picasso distorted things and person to the verge of chaos, there we have the borderline between representational and non-figurative (or abstract) art. Most cubist paintings have a recognizable subject, and so are representational.The answer to your question, then, is Yes.Click link below for an article on the subject, scroll down to see two examples of representational art and one example of abstract.