/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Is there a formal term that distinguishes the use of color x to depict something of local color x from the use color y to depict something of local color z?

I've noticed that simply having a red, a turquoise, and a chartreuse object in your picture doesn't make your use of colors harmoniously split complimentary, and that the relative property of color allows artists to use one color to indirectly represent another color.

The implication there being that one can use red, turquoise and chartreuse in varying degrees to represent the colors of things that may not necessarily be red, turquoise or chartreuse. I personally really like paintings with this kind of color aesthetic.

Is this literal vs representative application of color?
or direct vs indirect application of color?
or symbolic vs abstract application of color?

am bottom tier noob and want to git gud at painting, what do the pros call it?