Harry Philbrick, director of the Aldrich, credits what he calls a renaissance in erotic drawing partly to the growing revival of interest in representational imagery.

Following the building's conversion into a mosque in 1453, many of its mosaics were covered with plaster, due to Islam's ban on representational imagery.

One of the difficulties inherent in describing Synchromism as a coherent style is connected to the fact that some Synchromist works are purely abstract while others include representational imagery.

In the contemporary section, which comprises the bulk of the show, it is evident that the group still attracts artists for whom representational imagery is anathema.

Blending a grid format and representational imagery, she manages to sustain and vary a single idea over a large, multi-part series.

These were used both to fill in empty space between more representational imagery and sometimes as smaller detail in those images.

Although Paschke was inclined toward representational imagery, he learned to paint based on the principles of abstraction and expressionism.

Nevertheless, the dominance of representational imagery over abstraction, as well as the sophistication with which the artists have interpreted their subjects, marks this as a show of the 90's.

Ms. Dent's large, vibrant canvases carry on the tradition of Abstract Expressionism, with its reliance on spontaneous gesture and its avoidance of representational imagery.

More representational imagery was added in the 1980s; first rocks, then plants, then people.