Most appealing are extremely spare representational pictures from the 1950's: a bottle and a can of brushes deftly brushed in black ink or views of boats on water made in felt-tip pen with Japanese brevity (Johnson).

Many artists refused to join the church of formalist purity, however, and continued to paint representational pictures, even pictures of the most retrograde subject of all, the human figure.

That half presents two rows of abstract paintings facing each other, with a single representational picture hung between them at one end of the gallery, like an altarpiece.

Hiroshi Kimura paints small, lucid, representational pictures in a simplifying style.

In a brochure distributed to visitors entering the exhibition, Mr. Hodgkin is quoted as saying that he refers to his paintings as "representational pictures of emotional situations."

He also made explicitly representational pictures, like one of a voluptuous nude female torso.

I paint representational pictures of emotional situations.

Aubrey's creator Patrick O'Brian has proclaimed that 'Geoff Hunt's pictures, perfectly accurate in period and detail, but very far from merely representational, are often suffused with a light reminiscent of Canaletto.'

Since Torr rarely dated her work, it is difficult to trace any chronological development, other than a movement from abstraction early on to more representational pictures later.

Hodgkin describes his work as "representational pictures of emotional situations."