Stephen wrote:

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> the way genteel folk in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries would record their
> world in water colours? 

A fairly pure example of how I am using "mimetic" would be the painter 
Lucien Freud.

"Depictional" would mean everything that depends on recognizable 
imagery:  gothic mosaics, Renaissance scenes, Disney cartoons,... and 
Lucien Freud.

But what about Analytic Cubism? Well maybe, but in that case the 
discussion would push precisely the limit of what I commonly mean when I 
use either word.



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"record their world"  That starts to get at it, doesn't it?  Precisely
what "world" is Rene depicting?

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