Maybe we are comparing representational modes.

Cavanna and Feitelson presented only nonobjective paintings, though each worked in representational modes.

Artists used welding to branch off in any number of directions, including Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist, Pop and other representational and abstract modes.

The experience changed his way of thinking about art, and - back in Paris after the war - he turned to a representational mode.

The distinction is, indeed, implicit in Aristotle's differentiation of representational modes, namely diegesis (narrative description) versus mimesis (direct imitation).

With the move to more representational modes of depicting landscape in the 19th century, a reaction set in, and his works were to be the subject of the most disparaging invective.

Like the Faylasufs, he saw reason and philosophy as superior to religion, which was stuck in representational modes of thought.

One of the best (and most esteemed by Greenberg) was Jules Olitski, who at present alternates between abstract and representational modes.

From this arises the contrasting and alternate theories and representational modes of abstraction, realism and modernism, to name a few.

Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.