If the only constraint on marks representing objects is that the marks generate the postulated experience, then a blank canvas causing the illusory experience of seeing a portrait of Marilyn Monroe would qualify as depiction
A picture, drawing, or visual representation of something; showing what something looks like.
illusory experience(as used in epistemology (study of knowledge))
A perception or feeling that seems real but is actually false or misleading—like seeing something that isn't really there.
marks(Brentano's theory of judgement and predication)
Conceptual components or features that can be combined in thought; distinguished from particular objects, though talk of particular objects may serve as convenient abbreviation for marks
representing(as used in philosophy of depiction)
When one thing (like a picture or word) stands in for or shows us something else (like an object or person).
However, several difficulties remain. First, it is unclear how Hopkins’s theory can accommodate Lopes’s independence constraint. As we have seen (see above, §1.2), according to Lopes, if a theory implies that a spectator perceives a picture’s content by perceiving a resemblance between the marks on its surface and the kind of object which it represents, then she must be able to perceive this resemblance “without first knowing” what the picture represents. But a spectator’s “experience of liken