The carvings portray the life of an agricultural society with images of ships, circular objects, soles, animals, shallow bowls, and fertility figures (E.g. phalluses).

One way to get around the ambiguity of pictures, he suggests, is to send messages that portray objects in three-dimensional space, like sculptures that an alien can choose to view from any angle.

Jan Staller feels a connection to unusual landscapes that portray side-of-the-road objects.

Urarina myths that portray plants, inanimate objects, and non-human animals as personal beings are examples of animism in its more restrictive sense.

Instead of portraying everyday objects in their familiar domestic surroundings, O'Keeffe defied traditional notions of setting, space, scale, perspective and time.

Warhol's pop art can be seen as a relation to Minimal art in the sense that it attempts to portray objects in their most simple, immediately recognizable form.

Linear perspective is a method of portraying objects on a flat surface so that the dimensions shrink with distance.

These artists portrayed objects in motion, rather than their appearance at any particular moment.

The paintings of the Action painters were not meant to portray objects per se or even specific emotions.

To portray individuals or objects for their own sake and without cover of words was to give them iconic standing.