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I think it's erroneous to talk of "non-representational painting", a painting
being essentially a representation, though not perhaps of anything we can see.
"Non-objective painting" might be more appropriate. If a painting weren't
a representation, it would be what Mark Twain said Whistler's painting was:
a canvas covered with smears of tomato juice (or something to that effect).
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Yup. I had "non-looks-like" at one point, but that is too narrow (since cubism fails but is intended to be representational in the usual usage. My favorite story in art-fiction (hey, if you can have science -) is of a world where all physical characteristic and personaliyt types, etc. were coded into colored, shaped patches. A dossier on a person done in this form would be representational in the key meaning I want, but it would be odd (as happens in the story) for a police officer to shoot such a dossier of a bankrobber when he sees it in a bank. The problem is that the dossier is not representational in the common sense, though it is, strictly speaking.
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