Non-representational art clarified the structural laws of 
     the plastic image. It re-established the image in its 
     original role as a dynamic experience based upon the 
     properties of the senses and their plastic organization. 
     But it threw overboard the meaningful signs of the visual 
     relationships. 

     That is, the explicit visual linking of components in a 
composition, verbal or non-verbal, began to fascinate and 
compel most minds in the later fifteenth century. Kepes 
specifies this explicit visual linking as “literary” and as the 
immediate occasion of the dissociation of the interplay of the 
various properties of all the senses. He adds (p. 200):

     The image was ‘purified’. But this purification overlooked 
     the fact that the distortion and disintegration of the