Look up figurative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Figurative may refer to: Figurative analogy, a comparison between things that are not alike but...

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources...

A figurative analogy is a comparison about two things that are not alike but share only some common property. On the other hand, a literal analogy is about...

The distinction between literal and figurative language exists in all natural languages; the phenomenon is studied within certain areas of language analysis...

A figurative palanquin connected with the totem of its owner is a special kind of litter used in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana. These palanquins called...

Young Figuratives was the title of two exhibitions of new contemporary art by young German painters. This first exhibition was shown under this heading...

of independence from visual references in the world. Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related...

multiple such forms and can intersect under various categories, such as figurative (non-literal) devices. In literature, a device is a common term for any...

Figurative Constructivism is an art movement that arose principally in Germany. The term was introduced by Franz Seiwert in 1929 using the phrase "gegenständlichen...

New York Figurative Expressionism is a visual arts movement and a branch of American Figurative Expressionism. Though the movement dates to the 1930s,...

The Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art is a non-profit 501(c)3 museum located in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The museum was founded by sculptor, painter,...

many of Jewish origin, dubbed the School of Paris. After World War II, figurative expressionism influenced artists and styles around the world. The term...

approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world...

Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (also simply referred to as "Vienna Agreement") is an...

American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United...

the original on 3 September 2017. "Ice Age Lion Man is world's earliest figurative sculpture". The Art Newspaper. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original...

November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an...

The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was...

existed in French since at least the 12th century. The term is often used figuratively in other contexts, in addition to its meaning as a general state of angst...

The Alliance of Figurative Artists was an artist-run discussion group frequented by a majority of the figurative and realist painters and sculptors in...

November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an...

The figurative system of human knowledge (French: Système figuré des connaissances humaines; sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert) is...

defines it thus: Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly. (Figuratively) One must act in a fashion that conforms to one's position and privileges...

Prefigurative politics are modes of organization and social relationships that aim to reflect the future society being sought by a group. In practice,...

dates the figurative usage to about the 1950s. Compare carry the ball, above. drop the gloves Ice hockey: To engage in a fight, whether figurative or literal...

oldest undisputed example of a depiction of a human being. In terms of figurative art only the lion-headed, zoomorphic Löwenmensch figurine is possibly...

Imagery is the literary device of using sensory language: figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of vivid sense impressions in the...

workplace of the Emir of the State of Qatar. The Amiri Diwan represents the figurative and bureaucratic center of Qatar. The building also hosts the office of...

found. Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. The combined length of all the lines is...

The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realists ("The Bennett Prize") is a $50,000 biennial art prize established in 2016 by American art collectors Steven...

line, or "to cross the red line", is a phrase used worldwide to mean a figurative point of no return or line in the sand, or "the fastest, farthest, or...

Euterpe, Terpsichore, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, and Urania. In modern figurative usage, a muse is a person who serves as someone's source of artistic inspiration...

the 1960s and 1970s, the Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of abstract expressionism...

prohibitions on religious images, icons were suppressed and enormous amounts of figurative religious art was destroyed. Iconoclasts condemned their use, likening...

American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement...

involved the use of a robust acid to distinguish gold from base metals. Figuratively, the term represents any definitive test for attributes, such as gauging...

where the kings were using figurative palanquins in the forms of their family symbol. And as those chiefs who were using figurative palanquins had to be buried...

the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Figurative art is present in Europe and Southeast Asia, beginning around 50,000 years...

abstract art 'a lie' and 'a sham,' he pivoted to making paintings in a dark, figurative style, including satirical drawings of Richard Nixon" during the Vietnam...

Philip Oliver Hale (born 1963) is an American figurative painter who currently resides in London, England. Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1963...

Fantasy coffins or figurative coffins, also called “FAVs” (fantastic afterlife vehicles) and custom, fantastic, or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai),...

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form...

idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized...

Excessivism Exoticism Expressionism Fantastic realism Fauvism Feminist art Figurative art Figuration Libre Fine Art Fin de siècle Folk art Flemish painting...

Addo (c. 1919 – 9 December 2012) was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and figurative coffins, and at over 80 years of age he became a painter...

The Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal (NFAAM)/ L'Association des artistes non figuratifs de Montréal was a Canadian art group in Quebec that...

and Zvi Tadmor. Throughout his artistic career, Avni remained loyal to figurative painting. He was influenced by his teacher, Frenkel who taught of modern...

likeness or an analogy. Scholars group metaphors with other types of figurative language, such as hyperbole and metonymy. Metaphors are most similar to...

Hibernian Academy in both 2019 and 2026. Fullam's paintings feature "figurative domestic scenes" where "the familiar approaches the magical". He notes:...

Your Garden. By the late 2010s, Eugène’s work increasingly incorporated figurative elements alongside gestural abstraction. Artsy linked Eugène’s Moun series...

Ndop were figurative sculptures representing different kings (nyim) of the Kuba kingdom. Although the sculptural genre appears naturalistic, ndop are not...

Roni Taharlev (Hebrew: רוני טהרלב) is an Israeli figurative painter. Roni Taharlev was born in Kibbutz Yagur. She is the daughter of the Israeli lyricist...

between 1977 and 1980. In 1982, Distéfano was awarded the Konex Award for Figurative Sculpture, and in 1992 the Konex Award for Visual Arts.[citation needed]...

Holly Trostle Brigham (born 1965; née Holly Trostle) is an American figurative painter, whose feminist self-portraiture focuses on female subjects drawn...

"Call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression. It refers to calling something "as it is"—that is, by its right or proper name, without "beating about...

Oklahoma Press Pub. Co. v. Walling, there was a distinction made between a "figurative or constructive search" and an actual search and seizure. The court held...

lands to the east of Anatolia, such as Persia and India. Other forms of figurative arts existed since the formative stage of Islam. These pictures were meant...

promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name that it represents, as in a wordmark...

Vicente Romero Redondo (born 1956) is a Spanish figurative painter and educator, best known for his pastel depictions of graceful girls at solitary moments...

painter and art critic. A key contributor to the abstract expressionist and Figurative Expressionist movements, she wrote extensively on the art of the period...

English Dictionary suggests a transitional use from 1950, but a definitely figurative use only as late as 1978: He drew a line in the sand with the toe of his...

was an American pastel portrait artist and instructor associated with figurative art, who worked and lived in Northeast Ohio. Her work is held in several...

Gerard Byrne (born 29 March 1958, in Dublin) is an Irish figurative painter. His artwork encompasses various themes from landscapes and architecture painted...

American painter based in New York City. He is known for his vibrant, figurative oil paintings that blend traditions of historical genre painting with...

minor figure in Greek mythology who is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon. Philomela...

the discovery of what was then believed to be the oldest known work of figurative art in the world among the cave paintings, dating back 40,000 years. However...

Roberts (born 1951) is an American representational artist known for figurative works, street scenes and still lifes. His art has been compared to European...

painter and illustrator, from Shiraz. Her paintings are predominantly figurative and feature women merged with a variety of animals or objects. Her works...

perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create...

The National Museum of Fine Arts (Albanian: Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve) is a national art museum in Tirana, Albania, under the supervision of the Ministry...

wedding arranged in response to a pregnancy. The phrase comes from the figurative imagining that the relatives of the pregnant bride threaten the reluctant...

(born 1940) is an American painter, known for her vibrant, expressive figurative and narrative paintings. She came of age and gained recognition in the...

perpendicularly. As a mobile charge, esquarre refers frequently to the figurative representations of these tools, as well as abstract versions (see #Gallery)...

Harriet Nell Barber (3 June 1968 – 16 July 2014) was an English figurative painter. Harriet Nell Barber was born in Chichester and studied at Bournemouth...

prominent Belarusian painter and a central figure in contemporary non-figurative painting. He has been an active participant in the national and international...

the adjectives green and colorless both have figurative meanings. Green has a wide range of figurative meanings, including "immature", "pertaining to...

after chemotherapy typically lasts 7–10 days. The word is also used figuratively to mean a low point, such as with a person's spirits, the quality of...

is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broad sense. The symptoms and effects of poisoning in humans...

killing. Its meaning has extended to refer to the final event that causes a figurative death or ending. For example, if a company is teetering on the brink of...

School Action painting Abstract expressionism Expressionism American Figurative Expressionism Art history. OCLC 39229727 – via worldcat.org. "New Deal...

Jordan Casteel (born 1989) is an American figurative painter. She typically paints portraits of friends and family members as well as neighbors and strangers...

an American painter. Creating abstract works since 2011, he painted figuratively for most of his career, particularly large triptychs. Jessup was born...

early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s, he began his extensive...

The Crossed Swords Jolly Roger, or Skull and Crossed Swords Flag, are figurative terms for a popular modern variant of the pirate naval ensign Jolly Roger...

1990s, as evidenced by the rise of neo-expressionism and the revival of figurative painting. Towards the end of the 20th century, many artists and architects...

2011) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and 1960s. He studied with a number of leading American...

Richard MacDonald (born 1946) is a California-based contemporary figurative artist known for his bronze sculptures and his association with Cirque Du Soleil...

The Frink School of Figurative Sculpture was an art school in Leek, Staffordshire. It was named after the British sculptor Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)...

née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously...

Harvey Dinnerstein (April 3, 1928 – June 21, 2022) was an American figurative artist and educator. A draftsman and painter in the realistic tradition,...

In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions invoked when linguists discuss communication itself (metalanguage)....

Laffón de la Escosura (8 October 1934 – 7 November 2021) was a Spanish figurative painter and sculptor. She was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas...

"adapting the freedom of the Abstract Expressionist technique towards figurative ends." During the early 1960s Rivers lived in Manhattan's Hotel Chelsea...

as a concession to critics of her abstract approach, is a high-relief figurative portrait of Sibelius in his mid-forties, cast of acid-resistant stainless...

studied painting, sculpture and ceramics in Beirut and Paris. Noted for figurative paintings of Palestinian women and geometric houses in Jerusalem and Jericho...

expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme was considered one of the "Second Generation" members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme...

Hassan El Mezouari El Glaoui (1923–2018) was a Moroccan figurative painter best known for his depictions of fantasia horsemen. El Glaoui was born in Marrakesh...

"Aviary Villa." The mosaic is a checkerboard alternating between small figurative panels—mostly representations of horses—and geometric compositions. This...

18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure...

Guido Marzulli is a figurative Italian painter. Guido Marzulli was born in Bari, 8 July 1943. His father – Michele Marzulli, who was also a poet and writer...

Richard William Amor (born 3 March 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an Official War Artist for Australia. Rick Amor was born...

working, Feintuch made a slow and gradual transition towards painting figuratively. His first solo exhibition in New York in 1988 included abstract paintings...

Singaporean Art Group, Group 90, and a leading proponent to the development of figurative art in Singapore. Born the eldest child of nine siblings to a land owning...

counter teenage feelings of inadequacy related to sexual activity. In a figurative sense, the term is used to refer to self-congratulatory behavior or discussion...

May 31, 1994) was an American artist who shifted between abstract and figurative styles and worked in both painting and sculpture. Fonseca was born in...

20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists...

Coloma de Farners, Spain – 2018, Barcelona, Spain) was a Spanish/Canadian figurative artist who worked primarily in the medium of egg tempera. He is best known...

(August 30, 1943 – February 18, 1991) was an American Neo-Expressionist and Figurative painter. Susan Tepper was born Susan Levin on August 30, 1943, in Plainfield...

prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism. He rose to prominence as a recipient of the Cultural Center...

an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. He began as a figurative painter and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration...

and at the New School for Social Research, N.Y. His sculptures were figurative during a period when abstract expressionism was dominant, in the 1950s...

Marek Yanai (Hebrew: מרק ינאי; born 1946) is an Israeli figurative painter and senior lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He paints...

warping. In contrast, the much older trompe-l'œil style always represents figurative subjects, which are shown with deceptive three-dimensionality. Illusionism...

joined the United Asian Bank as a resident artist. His mastery in the figurative art is clearly manifested in his miniature artworks to his mural sized...

Services Administration. Udinotti is the founder of the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art in Arizona. Udinotti is the author of Udinotti, a collection of her...

South involve symbolic conceptualization. They suggest that the figurative and non-figurative images comprise a coherent assemblage of symbols that might...

painter best known for his work as an Abstract expressionist and for his figurative art. Pace was born on December 12, 1918, in Charleston, Missouri. Though...

upper sections are in the Gothic style, with pointed wimpergs and a rich figurative program. Like the cathedral and the campanile the Baptistery is built...

Ray Ciarrocchi is a New York-based figurative painter. Ciarrocchi has presented numerous solo exhibitions in New York, additional US cities and Italy as...

Madeline Emily Green (1884–1947) was a British figurative artist, who exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Women Artists, the Society of Graphic...

used to define the periods in art in all media, although in many ways figurative art developed at a different pace. The earliest Gothic art was monumental...

event at UC Davis) beginning in 1959 to today. He is part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Petersen was born 1926 in Endelave, Denmark. He received a B...

seen colors fighting each other" by Picasso. He painted watercolors and figurative etchings, employing contrasting and harsh colors and signed them with...

mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor to Schiele. Egon Leo Adolf...

the Civil Services board, Kainen shifted from abstraction to elegant figurative work. As evidence of fervent independence, Kainen rejected the popularity...

painter, art educator and arts administrator. She is known primarily for figurative paintings and large-scale portraits depicting ordinary people, as well...

School Action painting Abstract expressionism Expressionism American Figurative Expressionism "De Groot, Pat". LC Name Authority File (LCNAF). Nanno de...

1093/oxfordhb/9780199551224.013.018. Harris, G. (4 July 2024). "Oldest example of figurative art found in Indonesian cave". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original...

temples) were built of bricks. At the temples of the 17th to 19th century, figurative and decorative terracotta relief plates were regularly applied. Most of...

the free dictionary. A trope in its original sense is any instance of figurative (non-literal) language, such as a metaphor, hyperbole, or personification...

codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art. The word canon (from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn) 'measuring rod,...

Miguel Condé (born 1939) is a Mexican figurative painter, draughtsman, and print maker. According to Radio France, he is "one of the most important contemporary...

pizza chain Four Star Pizza. Cottrill specializes in large-scale bronze figurative works. Over more than 30 years he has created over 500 life-size or larger...

losses suffered during the Russian campaign of 1812 (in French, Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne...

Jane Brendan Williams (21 January 1929 – 14 November 2012) was a British figurative artist. Evelyn Jane Brendan Williams was born on 21 January 1929 at 63...

pronunciation: [ˈand͡ʐɛj vrubˈlɛfskʲi]; 15 June 1927 – 23 March 1957) was a Polish figurative painter who died in a mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only...

Rolfe Gallery in Melbourne. Wallace works "primarily works in oils in a figurative style often described as contemporary realism."Wallace has regularly exhibited...

the art critic, Clement Greenberg, who, when asked if he knew of "any figurative painting today which is large scale and which sustains itself?" responded...

Xinyi Cheng (Chinese: 程心怡; born 1989) is a Chinese figurative painter based in Paris, France. Her works primarily consist of portraits of people in everyday...

applied in the following order: Ground Border Dividing lines Feature blocks Figurative designs Geometric designs Clan designs Cross-hatching In all cases, the...

derivatives in medieval or modern Celtic languages. An additional limestone figurative carving, probably used as an altarpiece, was also found near Ancaster...

the Academy of Fine Arts of Belgrade in 1969. After graduating taught figurative art in Deçan. His works have been widely exhibited in Kosovo, Yugoslavia...

Jack Crabtree (1938–2026) was an English contemporary figurative painter and teacher. He is known for a series of paintings documenting the South Wales...

12 September 2018), also known as Betty Shaw-Lawrence, was an English figurative artist. Shaw studied painting and drawing under Fernand Léger, Cedric...

1980) is a Czech painter. He is known for his still-life painting and figurative and portrait work. In 2011, he won the Visitors's Choice BP Portrait Award...

intended to obtain something from the recipient. The reference to poison is figurative rather than literal. In the United Kingdom, Section 1 of the Malicious...

chopping one another apart until only "three red herrings" remain. The figurative sense of "red herring" has traditionally been said to originate from a...

30 shows across the United States and Italy. Steers' work, primarily figurative painting, is featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker...

and earned his MFA from the SAIC, and his art shifted from abstract to figurative imagism. Upon graduation from the SAIC, he was represented by Nancy Lurie...

Julia Acker (1898–1942) was a Polish-Jewish figurative artist. Since many records from the World War II period and the German occupation of Poland are...

expressionist painter, draftsman and sculptor. He is most known for his early figurative drawings and paintings and in later years for deconstructing the figure...

characterized by faceless people, most often women. Her style is neo-figurative. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Colombia, Argentina...

Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter. A controversial figure in Norway, he is known for his anti-modernist stance while he...

for the oldest examples of non-figurative cave art in the Iberian Peninsula. Represented by three red non-figurative symbols found in the caves of Maltravieso...

generation of the Dutch Group of figurative abstraction. Röling is described as the "figurehead of contemporary figurative painting in the Netherlands."...

and in the Diaspora prior to the Middle Ages. It features symbolic or figurative motifs often influenced by biblical themes, religious symbols, and the...

Leon Kossoff (10 December 1926 – 4 July 2019) was a British figurative painter known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England. Kossoff...

large brown eyes and slender fingers. His features are at times compared figuratively to those of Cupid or a Botticelli angel. Armand is born in 1481 in the...

flat forms and bold colours in the 1970s towards a later focus on more figurative subjects, in particular in domestic settings. In the 1990s, he moved from...

Labubu character. Inspired by folklore and Nordic myths, his work includes figurative toy designs, paintings and solo exhibitions. Kasing Lung was born in Hong...

since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in its other, more general figurative meaning of a "shattering or devastating thing or event" since 1860. The...

Borduas, a member of the Automatist group and a founding member of The Non-Figurative Artists' Association of Montreal. Jean-Paul Mousseau was born in Montreal...

describe a large number of any kind of animals devoted to sacrifice. Figuratively, "hecatomb" is used to describe the sacrifice or destruction by fire...

does not mean "figuratively" and is not an auto-antonym; literally as an intensifier cannot be lexically substituted for figuratively while keeping the...

(Russian: Марина Владимировна Фёдорова born 8 May 1981) is a Russian figurative artist and painter based in Munich. Fedorova was nominated for the Kandinsky...

card', but figuratively 'unlimited discretionary power to act') may refer to: Blank cheque, a cheque with no monetary value entered, figuratively an open-ended...

across different media, although only some styles of pottery include figurative scenes. Bull-leaping appears in painting and several types of sculpture...

was an American artist. He became prominent as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. A descendant of early-American intellectuals, Brown was born...

Maastricht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch sculptor known for her large scale figurative works in terracotta, bronze and cast iron. Beaumont was born in 1947 to...

Jerry Weiss (born October 21, 1959) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait painter and a writer. He studied classical drawing, and his career...

architect from Padua, Italy. He created puzzle maze designs, mainly in figurative forms. His designs included ships, dolphins, crabs, dogs, snails, horsemen...

set up a studio in Bemmel. He participated in regional exhibitions with figurative graphic art and drawings, and made contacts with painters, sculptors and...

Stavanger) is a Norwegian representational painter and sculptor in the figurative tradition who also draws in black and white. He is inspired by the horizon...

Peaceful Revolution, marking the beginning of the destruction of the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and...

Northern Irish contemporary artist based in Belfast. He is known for figurative paintings depicting the working men of Sailortown and emotionally complex...

Steinhouse-Kandelaki (born 1972) is a Georgian-born British contemporary figurative artist based in London. She is known for her emotive portraiture and landscapes...

Catriona Millar (born 1956) is one of Scotland's foremost figurative painters. Born in Milngavie, Glasgow, she studied at Harrogate School of Art and Grays...

representational intentions. Figurative or representational art is described as unambiguous or requiring mild interpretation. Abstract vs Figurative art The popular...

specifically to entail figurative comparison: thus "a wolf is like a dog" is merely a literal comparison, whereas the figurative "a man is like a wolf"...

Kooning met the younger painter Franz Kline, who was also working with the figurative style of American realism and had been drawn to monochrome. Kline, who...

circumstances of the case. In the early modern period, the term was often used figuratively (as Aristotle had used it) to mean a pliant, flexible and accommodating...

visible in the spandrels (corners) of the bema. There were already a few figurative decorations, as attested by the late 6th-century ekphrasis of Paul the...

specifically Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela, that embraced a new form of figurative art in response to both abstraction and traditional forms of representation...

Leigh Brooklyn is an American figurative artist. Wendy Leigh Knapp was born and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio. She currently lives and works in her...

between Damascus and London, whose painterly works are executed in a figurative mode. She represents Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, thereby...

on swept wings by Adolf Busemann. The 1936 Volta Congress focused on figurative art. It was presided by Marcello Piacentini. It was attended by architect...

Conor Walton (born 1970) is an Irish figurative painter. Walton lives and works in Arklow, Ireland. Walton was born in Ireland and trained at the National...

the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the muscles and bones of the human...

for his figurative work, and a former beach volleyball player and athlete. Hare's career spans 35 years. Today he is known as both a figurative and abstract...

21st Century Figurative Art: The Resurrection of Art, BookBaby Print, 5 Nov 2016, ISBN 1483582590 Timothy Hyman, The World New Made: Figurative Painting in...

Alicdan (born February 22, 1965, in Dasmariñas, Cavite) is a Filipino figurative artist. His works are distinguished by their quaint and geometric folk...

landscapes and still lifes. He emerged in the 1980s, producing expressionistic figurative paintings with a socio-critical dimension that drew on Chicago Imagism...

between speaker meaning and conventional meaning, and between literal and figurative meaning. Central debates address the contrast between sense and reference;...

sources refer to it as an idiom, an idiom has figurative language in its components, while a proverb's figurative meaning is an extension of its literal meaning...

Iceland's best known artists.[citation needed] He is an expressionistic and figurative painter who brought the figure back into Icelandic painting in 1968. He...

Theophilus Nii Anum Sowah (born 1968) is a Ghanaian figurative palanquin and fantasy coffin artist. Nii Anum was the chief apprentice in the Kane Kwei...

superficial treatments, sometimes foliate in imitation of the source, but often figurative. In Northern Europe the foliate capitals generally bear far more resemblance...

Because Kriesberg blended formalist elements with figurative forms he is often considered to be a Figurative Expressionist. Irving Kriesberg was born March...

Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was known for Western and Native American-themed figurative artwork distributed through regional galleries, commercial illustration...

Clive Wilkins (born 25 June 1954) is a British figurative artist. He is the author of The Moustachio Quartet, a series of novels that explore perception...

household objects, made from metal, wood or other materials. Further, figurative miniature paintings have a rich tradition, especially in Persian, Mughal...

anchor. Though initially referring to a literal act, the phrase was used figuratively by the mid-1800s in both the United States and England. The phrase is...

fence of Safra Square at the site of Jerusalem's city hall. The map is a figurative illustration, in the manner of the medieval mappa mundi format, depicting...

was a Syrian modern artist, painter and calligrapher. He was mainly a figurative painter who specialised in traditional scenes that represent traditional...

Jerome Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes, along with serious...

arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism is an...

sculptures, and her first successful pieces (also Three Heads and the Figurative Tradition) with its alert, menacing stance, characterizes her early work...

February 1983 in Utrecht) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist in the neo-figurative style. Schreurs was born as Jacobus Schreurs in The Hague, Netherlands...

Sacred cow is an idiom, a figurative reference to cattle in religion and mythology. A sacred cow is a figure of speech for something considered immune...

sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four...

mentioned in Nordic sources and sources pertaining to Scandinavia. It is a figurative term, referencing a spear, or similar, utilizing a sword- or dagger-like...

Dinnerstein, and maternal great-uncle, Harvey Dinnerstein, were both figurative artists; Harvey died in 2022. At 11 years old, Greensmith played electric...

for any continuous horizontal strip of decoration on a wall, containing figurative or ornamental motifs. In an example of an architectural frieze on the...

1960s and early 1970s. The description of the group as a "Family" was figurative, rather than literal; the group was not known to contain any members of...

August 2025. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) Brend, Barbara. "Figurative Art in Medieval Islam and the Riddle of Bihzād of Herāt (1465–1535). By...

A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person or the figurative birth of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures...

known as Naza, is a Brazilian painter. She is best known for her Abstract figurative paintings of officials, celebrities, endangered species, and other subjects...

" Both the original, literal, and the derived figurative sense were used in Latin, but the figurative is older in English. In anatomy, the prone position...

7 August 1962, Melbourne) was an English-born Australian monumental, figurative and architectural sculptor. Orlando Dutton (sometimes styled H. Orlando...

with her explorations of nature, atmosphere and vistas. Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and '70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched...

The "nuclear button" is a figurative term referring to the power to use nuclear weapons. "Pushing the nuclear button" refers to actually using them. The...

Joe (né Joseph Tetteh-Ashong; born 1947) is a Ghanaian sculptor, and figurative palanquin and fantasy coffin carpenter. Joe is considered one of the most...

Marilyn Szalay (1950-2012) was a contemporary figurative realist painter and draftsperson. Best known for her oversized charcoal drawings of humans and...

(1921–2013) was an American painter, often associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. Frank Lobdell was born on...

based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on the figurative depiction of real-life subjects. Founded by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich...

precolumbian heritage and the native peoples of his homelands. His stylized, figurative work often includes Andean clothing, such as woolen helmets. He also painted...

described him as one of the city's "most brutal and coldly expressionist" figurative artists. Lamantia attracted early attention from artist Jean Dubuffet...

The oldest undisputed examples of figurative art are known from Europe and from Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are dated as far back as around 50,000 years ago...

of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter...

the works of artists such as Donatello's contemporaries Masaccio, whose figurative frescoes were imbued with realism and emotion, and Ghiberti, whose Gates...

artist. His work ranged from monumental to miniature, and abstract to figurative, encompassing totemic vessel forms, tabletop sculpture and figures, murals...

punk rock movement of the 1970s, she is recognised today as a foremost figurative painter in contemporary British art, with her work included in landmark...

Threadneedle Prize) is a major art prize, which showcases contemporary figurative art. It was launched by the Mall Galleries in 2008. The prize is open...

as the structure was preserved virtually intact, and it had extensive figurative wall-paintings, which in 1932 still came as a considerable surprise to...

Asian pop culture website, store, and former magazine Giant Robot. Choe's figurative paintings, which explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation...

Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literal and figurative, although its interpretation is noted for being complex and potentially...

Anna Weyant (born 1995) is a Canadian artist whose figurative paintings blend influence from the Dutch Golden Age with an awareness of contemporary popular...

century. Since the 19th century, the term "juice" has also been used in a figurative sense (e.g., to mean alcohol or electricity). Today, "au jus" refers to...

Potemkin village (Russian: [pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪn]) is a construction, literal or figurative, that provides a façade to a situation, to make people believe that the...

μετάληψις, metálēpsis) is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context. Ancient Roman academic Quintilian described...

Classicism," and "one of the most important artists of the Neoclassical Figurative revival movement." Civitico is known for painting in "styles ranging from...

styles, and subject matter all his life. Early in his career, he was a figurative painter, but he later fully embraced landscapes and abstraction. The former...

artists across several disciplines. He is associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement of Representational Painting. Qualters was born in McKeesport...

Glasinac and Donja Dolina are considered tools for practicing tattoos. Early figurative representations of tattoos appear in Apulia, southeast Italy, within the...

12th centuries, figurative sculpture strongly revived, and architectural reliefs are a hallmark of the later Romanesque period. Figurative sculpture was...

ChromaZone/ Chromatique Collective gallery, dedicated to reintroducing figurative painting to Toronto. In 1987 she moved to Flesherton in northern Ontario;...

September 20, 1960) was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. David Park was born in Boston,...

a variety of pottery, including traditional Cochiti figurative pottery, experimental figurative pottery, traditional pottery vessels. His clothing and...

bleaching agent chlorine dioxide, which they state is perhaps a "reference to figurative eye bleach". e621 is a furry-themed booru-style imageboard: a gallery...

Moore's influence, Gladstone began a long period of experimentation with figurative work. In 1967, Gladstone received three commissions for Montreal's Expo...

returned to London in 1979 he had abandoned abstract art in favour of figurative art and urban realism. Bevan's first solo exhibition at the Grabowski...

Rasher (born 1977) (real name Mark Kavanagh) is an Irish figurative artist, best known for his detailed and colourful work on the human figure, and still...

Mary Woronov (born December 8, 1943) is an American actress, writer, and figurative painter. She is primarily known as a cult film star because of her work...

prize. In his early paintings, Antes sought a path somewhere between figurative painting and the L'Art Informel. One of his most important role models...

only belong to a later Persianate and Turkic cultural period. However, figurative arts existed since the formative stage of Islam. Small miniatures were...

Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – 22 September 1888) was a French figurative painter and academic artist and teacher known for his Classical and Orientalist...

originally from Chicago. His style ranges from abstract expressionism to figurative. His art work was influenced by historical, religious, narrative and urban...

Australian figurative painter and former member of the Antipodeans group of artists. Dickerson is one of Australia's most recognised figurative artists and...

motif (/moʊˈtiːf/ ) is an element of an image. Motifs can occur both in figurative and narrative art, and in ornament and geometric art. A motif may be repeated...

December 1914 – 25 July 2009) was an Argentine painter of the Abstract, Figurative, and Surrealist schools. Luis Barragán was born in Buenos Aires in 1914...

Carl Randall, born Carlo Lombardi, is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan, resulting from the artist living for...

position in which a person has their arms outstretched and legs apart, figuratively resembling an eagle with wings spread. It is a style that appears commonly...

representation, and a casual approach to materials with an eclectic iconography of figurative elements. While contemporary in his choice of materials and subjects,...

the most beautiful figurative miniatures in arts from Islamic countries, migrated during their life between an extravagant 'figurative' and an extremist...

largely autobiographical work, it combines stark realism with American figurative tradition to produce a secular rendering of the usually religious form...

party. The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as a strictly figurative expression for an intentional misrepresentation of someone's allegiance...

that has no monetary value written in, but is already signed. In the figurative sense, it is used to describe a situation in which an agreement has been...

fundamental figurative and poetic model during his formative years. Between 1903 and 1908, prior to his adherence to Futurism, Boccioni developed a figurative vision...

into particular signs (signa propria) and figurative signs (signa translata), among which the unknown figurative signs belong to the pagans. In addition...

across the United States, in search of "America", in both a literal and figurative sense. It was inspired by a 1964 road trip that Simon took with his then-girlfriend...

of representational realism in art. In 2005, three of his monumental figurative canvases were presented at the Valencia Biennial. Abroad he has had solo...

5th and 6th century synagogues in the Middle East with floor mosaics. Figurative mosaic, but mostly without human figures, was widely used on religious...

the relationship between contemporary figurative painting and its historical precedents. He creates figurative compositions that draw on personal photographs...

מענטש) is a Yiddish word which literally translates to "person", and figuratively means "a person of integrity and honour". Jewish American humourist Leo...

Abdelhalim Hemche (5 February 1908 – 1 April 1979) was an Algerian figurative painter. Hemche was born on 5 February 1908 in Tlemcen. A student of Cauvy...

(October 10, 1910 – April 24, 1990) was a Canadian artist known for his figurative scenes of Montreal. A founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society...

Eileen Hogan (born 1946) is a figurative painter, who lives and works in London. She has shown in museums and private galleries in the UK and America....

She paints landscape, still life, portrait, as well as in the style of figurative symbolism. Works by Omelchuk are in private collections in Ukraine. 1992...

Smith's figurative painting, however, was soon to replaced by abstract images. Since his student years Smith had painted mostly in a "figurative, Post-Impressionist"...

developed from a realistic style to impressionist paintings, later to figurative expressionist and to increasingly abstract expressionist themes. Bookatz...

1935 – 30 June 2019) was a British painter and teacher whose pioneering, figurative artworks often depicted psychologically charged interior spaces and modern...

found in Latin American countries. The term First Lady has also seen figurative use to describe a person seen to be at the top of her profession or craft...

Graham Fransella (born 3 June 1950) is an Australian figurative and abstract painter. Fransella was born in Harrow, England. He studied at the Bradford...

spiritual themes, and a tendency toward figuration strong enough that Boston Figurative Expressionism is sometimes used as an alternate term to distinguish it...

película (lit. transl. The Family from the Neighborhood: The movie; figuratively "The del Barrio Family: The movie") is a 2024 Mexican adult animated...

diverse real-world subcultures are often referred to as "bohemian" in a figurative sense, especially (but by no means exclusively) if they show traits of...

occasion where skills are being developed. "Masterclass" is also used in a figurative sense to describe a display of great skill in a context where education...

as if with, a poleaxe. (transitive, figurative) To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly. (transitive, figurative) To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze...

attitude or manner through which a person thinks about something. This figurative usage of the expression dates back to 1730. In this meaning, the usage...

considered as one of the most prominent international painters in the neo-figurative style. Åkesson was born in the small village of Sporsjö outside of Kalmar...

intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus...

although historiated initials (an Insular invention), canon tables and figurative miniatures, especially Evangelist portraits, are also common. This sense...

Juliet Anne Wood (born 1939) is a British figurative painter whose work includes portraiture, drawings, and oil paintings. Her career spans more than five...

visual artist known for mixed media abstract compositions as well as figurative work in sculpture, painting and drawing. He lives and works in San Francisco...

Besides portrait works, Babailov is also known for his large scale multi-figurative paintings, such as his “For Gold, God and Glory” painting and “Believe”...

Salvati (22 February 1939 in Rome – 24 June 2014 in Rome) was an Italian figurative artist, painter, and draftsman. His landscapes are the expression of poetic...

Julia Medyńska (born 1981 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish-American figurative painter, recognized for her paintings exploring Dystopian Romanticism. Medyńska...

Kuhfeld (born 1952) is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld, née Showan...

figure. His style is considered by critics and art historians to be in the figurative expressionist mode. Lester Johnson was born in 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

December 1864 – 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity. Later in the...

John Kiki (born 9 May 1943) is an English figurative painter with deep roots in the Mediterranean. Kiki was born in the village of Eptakomi in Northern...

music. The flutes were found in caves with the oldest known examples of figurative art. Music and sculpture as artistic expression have developed simultaneously...

Vincent Woodard. The book explores the homoeroticism of both literal and figurative acts of human cannibalism that occurred during slavery in the United States...

Judy Takács (born 1962, New York) is a contemporary figurative painter, known for her realistic paintings from her ongoing, traveling portrait series,...

painter. Ros is known for his figurative-come-expressionist and abstract art. He is a notable exponent of the figurative expressionist Movement. Ros was...

usually the heaviest unit named in colloquial speech, its name also has figurative uses, singular and plural, informally meaning a large amount or quantity...

figure. Argue gained early recognition in the early 1980s for large-scale figurative paintings characterized by gestural brushwork, psychological intensity...

Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina Expressionism American Figurative Expressionism New York Figurative Expressionism Art USA Now 2 Luzem Bucher (1963) p.167...

microphone at the end of a performance or speech to signal triumph. Figuratively, it is an expression of triumph for a successful event and indicates...

lotus-eaters. Those who ate the plant never cared to report or return. Figuratively, 'lotus-eaters' denotes "people who spend their time indulging in pleasure...

Stephan Balkenhol (born 1957) is a German artist who creates figurative painted wooden sculptures and reliefs. Balkenhol was born in 1957 in Fritzlar,...

painter, illustrator, and lithographer. As a genre painter, he worked figuratively and specialized in battles and horses. Paris was born in Tarbes. He developed...

"three-toned"), Ddungddang ("chubby"), Gilmak ("road-blocker"), Yattong (figuratively, "meows a lot"), and others.[citation needed] '좋좋소'→'말년은 행복하게'…왓챠, 인기...

images of women she saw on American newsstands. She began to paint in a figurative style, and incorporated the erotic themes for which she is known today...

is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay which uses acid, or figuratively a definitive test for some attribute, e.g. of a person's character, or...

Michelle Gregor (born 1960, USA) is a San Francisco-based figurative sculptor. She works in mid-fire stoneware ceramic and porcelain. Gregor was born in...

revival of history painting in the 1970s, Tillim alternated between the figurative and the abstract throughout his career. Likewise, although he wrote on...

Federica Galli (15 August 1932 – 6 February 2009) was an Italian figurative artist known for her etchings. Her work depicts the landscapes and architecture...

Nigel Cox (born 1959) is an Irish figurative artist. Cox, the second youngest of four children, grew up in Dundalk, Ireland; he had three sisters, Sandra...

among others. As a painter, Fangor was trained by the Polish academic and figurative artist Felicjan Szczęsny-Kowarski. After briefly conforming to the style...

manipulation of the dynamic or transformational aspects of reality, and that figurative intelligence is responsible for the representation of the static aspects...

Hitler Didi (transl. Hitler Sister but figuratively Auntie Hitler) is an Indian soap opera that aired on Zee TV. It premiered on 7 November 2011. The story...

Bagan. One of his more intriguing explorations was using abstract non-figurative painting as a means to express Buddhist concepts beyond the earthly...

Ann Gale (born 1966) is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation...

sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985), sculptor, figurative coffin carpenter, and palanquin builder Ben Agbee (born 1966), painter...

stars", or "avenue of fame"). In other cases, the hall of fame is more figurative and consists of a list of names of noteworthy people and their achievements...

October 1950 – 1 January 2024) was a German painter of neo-expressive figurative images. Born in Büsbach, Ritzerfeld initially trained as a window dresser...

based in London, England. He is predominantly known for his large-scale figurative pieces, mostly in oil and usually depicting movement in the form of dance;...

is the contact point of the figurative straight. The centre of a hyperbola lies without the curve, since the figurative straight crosses the curve. The...

groups. The most readily visible to the casual observer are largely non-figurative collections of repetitive geometric patterns, usually found in larger...

(born 1945) is a California-based representational painter of landscape, figurative and still life works. His paintings employ formal principles and ideas...

1953) is an American activist with Chicano and other issues, curator, figurative realist painter, and blogger, who runs the Art for a Change web site;...

Galicia, (2015-07-07)July 7, 2015) was a Spanish photographer, painter, and figurative artist. He emigrated in his childhood to Argentina and began studying...

targeted mass killing of civilians by an armed group. It can also be used figuratively to refer to a one-sided exchange between armed groups. The word is a...

description of Muhammad's appearance, they complied with the strictures against figurative depictions of Muhammad, leaving his appearance to the viewer's imagination...

where he graduated from the Academy of Figurative Arts of Belgrade in 1969. Thereafter he taught Academy of Figurative Arts of Pristina. His works are primarily...

themes and forms created by artists. First known artworks of Więcek were figurative sculptures made of plaster and stone – Miners (1953) and the Polish-Soviet...

(born 1951) is a British artist and sculptor, known for the realistic figurative sculptures he has created for public commissions in the United Kingdom...

Louise Stanley (born 1942) is an American painter, known for irreverent figurative work that combines myth and allegory, satire, autobiography, and social...

Being narrative in subject and employing not only skill in arranging figurative compositions but also the burgeoning skill of linear perspective, the...

a Romantic. He objected to the labels of art commentators. He painted figurative art works, landscape art works, and portraits striking for their passionate...

1979) was an Italian painter. His work is representative of the Italian figurative art of that period. His artistic production includes still lives, portraits...

Carey Clarke (born 1936) is an Irish academic figurative painter, known for his landscapes, interiors, still lifes and portraits. Carey Clarke was born...

Italian-American sculptor, widely known for his Charging Bull sculpture. His figurative art was primarily in the medium of bronze, showing increasing modernist...

(born 15 September 1958, in Cookham, Berkshire, England) is a British figurative painter whose work includes landscapes, cityscapes, figures, portraits...

Australian artist specialising in large scale allegorical oil paintings in a figurative style. His paintings have been selected for numerous prestigious Australian...

art gallery, at no. 6 rue Jules-Chaplain. It was free and focused on figurative painting and sculpture. Maison Watteau was founded by Lena Börjeson in...

after Jeremiah's first appearance, Jeremiah is reinvented and becomes a figurative amalgamation of both Valeska twins over the course of the show and, while...

Tschumi recently wrote, the figurative coffins developed out of the figurative palanquins which were formerly used like the figurative coffins in Accra only...

in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with his partner, Theophilus Brown, whom he met in 1952...

Eikaas was among the first artists in Norway to work in a purely non-figurative idiom. Ludvig Eikaas was born in the small hamlet of Eikaas in Jølster...

Sebastian Blanck (born July 18, 1976) is an American musician and figurative painter, best known for his work with the band Black Dice and later his paintings...

piercing ears is an ancient tradition of the Mumuye. The Iagalagana is a figurative sculpture that is used for divination, powers for bestowing good luck...

described in 2 Thessalonians. Over time, interpretations varied, including figurative, historical, and personal applications of the concept. During the Reformation...

had significant success early in their careers and were then offered a figurative blank check to pursue their passion projects. Most episodes focus on a...

is the Mousterian of the Neanderthals. One of the oldest examples of figurative art, the Venus of Hohle Fels, comes from the Aurignacian or Proto-Gravettian...

distinguishes between definite direct and indirect objects, whether real or figurative, e.g. «βάζω το χέρι μου στο ευαγγέλιο» or «...στη φωτιά» (lit. I put my...

return to figurative art, as well as mythic imagery, which was rediscovered during the height of the movement. The artists revived figurative art and symbolism...

Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts. The early Yâkût...

tradition was continued by the Nazca, whose vessels were elaborately figurative (see illustration below right), decorated with polychrome glazes, or both...

device against the will of the authorities. The figurative use of the word is analogous to figurative uses of steamroller or battering ram to mean something...

design work for the Limoges porcelain company in Limoges. Floral and figurative patterns in richly glazed colours were his signature. His parents were...

Magazine". Surfermag.com. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2015-10-03. "Surf Art, Figurative, Yoga and Nature Inspired Art - Jay Alders Artist: Art Inspired by Surf...

Faculty of Fine Arts of Seville. His work can be set within the Sevillian figurative movements, in painting and engraving alike. Extremely concerned about...

School of Social Science. Lewis began his career in 1930, with mostly figurative work and social realism. He at first painted what he saw, which ranged...

dictionary. Unity is the state of being as one (either literally or figuratively). It may also refer to: Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic...

Giovanni Pisano, the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic, three-dimensional, lifelike...

Philippe Derome (born 18 February 1937 in Paris) is a French figurative painter. Philippe Derome grew up in Boulogne-Billancourt and in Villeurbanne. In...

Sam McKinniss (born 1985) is an American abstract and figurative postmodern painter based in Brooklyn. Sam McKinniss was born in Minnesota and grew up...

Jana Farmanová (born 1970) is a Slovak contemporary figurative painter who has been called one of the most influential painters of contemporary Slovak...

literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include other musical elements such as tonal color. It...

European medieval art and primitivism, as well as the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France. As a result of their encounters with Cubist, Fauvist...

to describe an argument or a discussion that has been extended to the figurative point of nausea. For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam" indicates...

Harry Holland (born 1941) is a British painter known for his figurative work. He has been based in Cardiff, Wales since 1973. Harry Holland was born in...

Emily Patrick (born 4 October 1959) is a British figurative painter. Patrick grew up on a sheep farm in Kent. She studied architecture at the Architectural...

Batič (2 June 1925 – 17 September 2015) was a Slovene sculptor. Mostly a figurative artist, he is particularly known for his sculptures exhibited in many...

paintings of the facades of urban cast-iron buildings from the 1970s. Her figurative work employs color fields and architectural details as abstract shapes...

Hulda Guzmán (born 1984) is a Dominican figurative painter whose work often depicts tropical settings and naturalistic motifs. Her paintings often include...

Jan Müller (December 27, 1922 – January 29, 1958) was a New York-based figurative expressionist artist of the 1950s. According to art critic Carter Ratcliff...

Naive John (born Ian Wylie; 18 October 1962) is a British artist and figurative painter. His work centers around subjects that combine elements from popular...

an English mile (540 m). However, this use of "ten-thousand" (wàn) is figurative in a similar manner to the Greek and English myriad and simply means "innumerable"...

Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were...

Manessier (5 December 1911, Saint-Ouen – 1 August 1993, Orléans) was a non-figurative French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, part of the...

artist and a founder member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. She is a figurative artist. Ovenden was born in 1945 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Ovenden...

Washington. He lives and works in Seattle. Martin Blank is known for both figurative sculptures and architectural glass installations. Drinking from the Cup...

"Clerical Sexual Abuse: How the Crisis Changed". www.proquest.com. ProQuest 1732761620. "Literal Testosterone to Figurative Estrogen". Official website...

and 2024), and Dartmouth College (2021). Shemesh has worked in varied figurative modes and genres throughout her career, over time moving closer to abstraction...

unknown artists of all schools who are called to designate their works of a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the Abbreviatur of the same & c. have...

important than photo-realism. Then the manifesto states that abstract and figurative art is allowed in Superstroke. It goes further and states that certain...

Janice Urnstein Weissman (born 1944, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American figurative painter. Weissman started her artistic career as a classical painter utilizing...

codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art Canon (music), a type of composition Canon (hymnography), a type of...

Alexander Goudie (11 November 1933 – 9 March 2004) was a Scottish figurative painter. Alexander Goudie was born in the Renfrewshire town of Paisley, Scotland...

Henri Lamy is a French figurative painter. Born in 1985 in Lyon, he started painting at an early age after developing a fascination for facial expressions...

involving sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object. Agalmatophilia is a form of object sexuality. The attraction may...

focusing more on the artists' process. Art of the 1970s was more conceptual, figurative and expressionist. However, the 1980s brought a return to more traditional...

influenced his colour palette and loosened his brushstrokes as he developed a figurative abstract style. Hickling was the assistant art editor of Liberty Magazine...

Sahara Longe (born 1994) is a British painter. She is best known for her figurative and semi-abstract work, typically including portraits. Her work is held...

Vocal Canticle Ornamental Instrumental Figurative Obviously in vocal music, besides canticle melodics, figurative and ornamental ones are also encountered...

in between periods of exertion without having to leave the water. In figurative language, the expression "treading water" has become a metaphor for an...

Anne's Fan or Queen Anne's Fan. The phrase "cocking a snook" can be used figuratively: the Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1938 usage "The Rome–Berlin axis...

il Neoclassicismo, 2003), 76. Potts, Alex. The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist. Yale University Press: 2000: 40. Pavanello, Giuseppe...

elaboration of the logical model of intellectual development, the study of figurative thought. The resulting theoretical frameworks are sufficiently different...

Ipoustéguy ((1920-01-06)January 6, 1920 – (2006-02-08)February 8, 2006), a figurative French sculptor, was born Jean Robert in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had...

Myron G. Barlow (1870 – 1937) was an American figurative painter known for his paintings of the lives of rural French women. A gold medalist in international...

Engineering and Science. New York Academy of Art Master of Fine Art, Figurative Painting His artworks are represented by Li Fine Art Gallery, Singapore...

"insistence on exuberance, emotion and sensuality, her pursuit of the figurative and her bold use of color have not endeared her to everyone in a minimalist...

Buddha himself The statue or the name of a buddha The laws of Buddhism Figuratively, the performing of a Buddhist memorial service. The Eiga Monogatari for...

in the former residence of Max Fourny and his wife, Françoise Adnet, a figurative painter Communes of the Yvelines department "Répertoire national des élus:...

Gabriel (born May 7, 1948) is an American contemporary realist painter and figurative artist, specialising in the Renaissance tradition.[non-primary source...

initiated around 1917. Van der Leck, on the other hand, went back to figurative compositions after his departure from the group. The De Stijl influence...

Gallo. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland...

primary objectives: Asserting the figurative precision of analysis Achieving a reinterpretation of phenomena through figurative synthesis Affirming its own...

Chrysanne Stathacos and many others. ChromaZone artists were committed to a figurative expressive style and an attachment to the tactility of painting, features...

De panzazo (stylized as 'De P6nz6zo; lit. 'belly flop', but figuratively "barely approved") is a Mexican documentary film, led by Juan Carlos Rulfo and...

patterns of rubrication to help identify textual traditions. Various figurative senses of the word have been extended from its original meaning. Usually...

Olga Sinclair (born 1957 in Panama City) is an artist and figurative painter. She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional...

however, scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an...

watercoulour appearance. On 8 December 1959, the Grupo Hondo proclaims its Neo-figurative theoric principles in a manifesto written by the poet Manuel Conde, of...

Marion Wagschal RCA (born 1943) is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the Holocaust and to her personal history...

Others, including many liberal Christians, consider these stories to be figurative. Since the Age of Enlightenment, many scholars have taken a highly skeptical...

considered the "Keepers of the Fire" (honatjisdané·daˀ in Onondaga) in the figurative longhouse that shelters the Five Nations. The Cayuga and Seneca have territory...

dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. The main body of his art has been figurative, and embedded in the representational. Born in 1950 in Saint John, New...

Carole Freeman is a Canadian American contemporary figurative artist known for expressive realist portraits and narrative paintings characterized by psychological...

"ogreish", i.e. "like an ogre", as defined in older dictionaries in a figurative sense; that is being like a person who is felt to be particularly cruel...

Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "Sequence A090467 (Numbers which are not regular figurative or polygonal numbers of order greater than 2. That is, numbers not of...

from integumentum, which is Latin for "a covering". In a transferred, or figurative sense, it could mean a cloak or a disguise. In English, "integument" is...

achieving a goal. In the phrase, "skin" refers to an investment (literal or figurative), and "game" is the metaphor for actions on the field of play under discussion...

Museum Møhlmann is a privately owned museum for Dutch realistic and figurative art. It is situated in Tjamsweer near Appingedam in the province of Groningen...

to be Mary Magdalene lies on the ground and wrapped around the cross, figuratively at Jesus Christ's feet. The shields of the angels in the picture bear...

person can look deathly pale, with such paleness often likened to death in figurative speech and in fiction. This can happen when blood escapes from the surface...

produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Expressionist or "miserabilist". Buffet enjoyed...

claims that all non-figurative art created in the 20th century is not in fact art, but rather the shreds and raw materials of the figurative art that preceded...

up on the fridge"). A noun might have a literal (concrete) and also a figurative (abstract) meaning: "a brass key" and "the key to success"; "a block in...

Marjorie Kramer (born 1943 in Englewood, NJ, raised in Greenwich, CT) is a figurative painter of al fresco landscapes and feminist self-portraits. Kramer has...

Rakhmilovych Zalevsky, February 19, 1951) is a Ukrainian and American figurative painter. His works have been associated with magic realism, photorealism...

Each circle is decorated with ornamental and figurative elements, wherein the central circle is a figurative composition of five female figures. These clothed...

that lists and explains idioms – distinctive words or phrases having a figurative meaning that goes beyond the original semantics of the words. An idiom...

Romantic black-and-white illustrations for books, numerous landscapes, figurative paintings and civic portraits, all of which came to the attention of local...

curator and director of Transition Gallery. She is mainly known for her figurative paintings which often focus on the construction, codification and subversion...

Caroline McNairn (16 May 1955 – 29 September 2010) was a Scottish figurative painter. Caroline McNairn was born in Selkirk in 1955. Her father (John McNairn)...

works are predominantly of women and his style has been described as "figurative-expressionist".[better source needed] However, the impact of encountering...

Robert Birmelin (born 1933) is an American figurative painter, printmaker and draughtsman. In other contexts he is also known as August Robert or A. Robert...

to someone committing a murder and not being punished, it can be used figuratively of someone who is seen not to suffer the consequences of their actions:...

Photographic Collections, Earl Kerkam Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press...

female figures with lines and flow while adding texture and motion to the figurative sculpturing. Some of his works involves modernized aspects of Greek sculpturing...

architecture, seem to have had influence even in Western Europe. For example, figurative monumental sculpture on the outside of churches appears here some centuries...

16 December 1968) was a Ukrainian-born French and Israeli Art deco and figurative art sculptor. Chana Orloff was born the eighth of nine children in a village...

European Union Intellectual Property Office against the Madrí Excepcional figurative European Union trade mark (EUTM No. 018292728). The application concerns...

Latin America. He played a foundational role in the development of non-figurative art in Uruguay alongside his wife, artist María Freire. Costigliolo was...

Christopher Brown, Anthony Dubovsky and other exponents of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Wayne Thiebaud was one of the first painters to recognise his...

developed within a wider field that included Poetism, Symbolism, non-figurative painting and the distinct metaphysical programme of the Grand Jeu. His...

Taburet (born 1997 in Paris) is a French contemporary artist known for figurative paintings that incorporate airbrushing techniques with traditional brush...

President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. He is known for his figurative male sculpture. Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, much of his work is...

in the surrounding Islamic milieu, and reads much of its language as figurative rather than literal. Baháʼí scripture, like the Qurʼán, supports the understanding...

reality". In Spain, the study of pop art is associated with the "new figurative", which arose from the roots of the crisis of informalism. Eduardo Arroyo...

Holzman; Hebrew: שמשון הולצמן; 1907–1986) was an Israeli landscape and figurative painter. He is known worldwide for his watercolor paintings. Holzman was...

avant-garde Grupo Taller in the 1960s, she later returned to more classical, figurative works in the 1990s. Floria Pinto was born in 1923 in San José, Costa Rica...

Gebildbrot (German: [ɡəˈbɪltbʁoːt] ) is a bread or pastry in forms of figurative representations, such as a human, hare, bird or other braidings of dough...

is an Italian artist born in Palermo (Sicily) in 1970. A contemporary figurative painter, his oeuvre also covers installations, drawings, sculpture, collage...

American artist and designer whose work centers on repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career...

artists and craftsmen mostly trained in Byzantine styles, and though figurative content was greatly reduced, Byzantine decorative styles remained a great...

whether Quranic verses and hadith on eschatology be taken literally or figuratively; who will be sent to paradise or hell; whether consignment to hell is...

passages are usually incongruous. By extension, purple prose is lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or otherwise overwrought. In philosophy, the nature of description...

Hopper, who stayed loyal to figurative painting, created intriguing images of the American scene. With a revival of figurative art at the end of the 20th...

centuries. He was known for his vivid, stylised realism and championed figurative work, often in a bold style, during a period when abstract art predominated...

Michael Todd White (born October 10, 1969, in San Antonio, Texas) is a figurative expressionist painter. He has also been described as an avant-garde expressionist...

Vinnie Bagwell is an American sculptor and representational figurative artist. Vinnie Bagwell was born and lives in Yonkers, New York, where she resided...

vulnerability. It has traditionally been used to refer to a weak spot in a figurative suit of armor. The standard meaning is similar to that of Achilles' heel...

Jim Farber remarked that it became an "overwhelming hit (literally and figuratively)". It attracted significant media coverage, amid its organization of...

Flowers Gallery: 1996: Naked – Flowers East at London Fields 1997: British Figurative Art – Part 1: Painting at Flowers East Tilley, Sue (16 May 2015). "I didn't...

become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, novelty, or figurative or artistic power, even to the point of now being bland or uninteresting...

enforcement power to commence a search of a person's property, also used as figurative search, constructive search, illegal search, unlawful search Search for...

are ambitious, equal-opportunity fetishists, who throw things against a figurative wall to see what sticks. And more of it sticks than you might reasonably...

First Class Honours Degree. Raphael worked in several media and in both figurative and abstract styles. As a portrait painter she gained recognition at the...

the heat of the sun. These skins dried tight, causing brain damage and figurative zombification. Mankurts did not recognise their name, family, or tribe—"a...

was an Italian Jewish artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style...

free dictionary. Sands of time may refer to: Sands of time (idiom), a figurative expression The Sands of Time (film), a 1919 British film produced by Harma...

cutting-edge or radically innovative movements in art, music and literature; figuratively 'on the edge', literally, a military term, meaning 'vanguard' (which...

Contemporary Realism. He works mainly in charcoal and his drawings highlight figurative objects in general and the human body in particular. Dan Pyle was born...

the shape in addition to its vertical placement on the chart. Boxology Figurative system of human knowledge – Taxonomy of human knowledge Organizational...

ancient Egyptian figurative art, Nok sculptures are regarded to be the earliest examples of large three-dimensional (sculptural) figurative art in continental...

sinuous energy.” after 1973, his paintings gradually moved toward American Figurative Expressionism. ”These works often feature obscure, scurrying phantoms...

produced by the other Goebel Miniatures artists before shipment. All of the figurative art Olszewski produced for Goebel Miniatures was cast in bronze and individually...

contemporary figurative art. The museum's director, Michel van Maarseveen, described the gift as "the finest example of contemporary figurative art in the...

nearly all this time. Since around 1600, the word palladium has been used figuratively to mean anything believed to provide protection or safety, and in particular...

Albanian Academy of Belle Arts for 40 years President of the Nationwide Figurative Artists’ Association Recognitions and awards: People's Artist of Albania...

Lettre à M. Dacier (1822), he wrote: It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase...

done before 1955 becomes evident in the late 1950s. What used to be the figurative concentration of a tragedy becomes a portrayal of persons and things perceived...

including draftsmanship, with writing. Today, beading the surfaces of figurative sculptures serves as the artist's trademark. For her, drawing upon the...

(June 12, 1888 – March 17, 1960) was a Canadian artist, known for his figurative work and as a colorist. He was born in Maple Grove, Quebec, and studied...

convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even...

therapy is therapy intended, in transportation metaphor, to serve as a figurative bridge to another stage of therapy or health, helping a patient pass a...

Timothy Butler (1806–1885) was a 19th-century British figurative sculptor. His most noteworthy public works are the lion mooring rings lining the Thames...

survives in Biblical Hebrew only in the figurative usage 'to love'; specifically, it is a term for an uncle or figuratively, a lover/beloved (it is used in this...

comprehension began in the 1970s. Early research on figurative language typically assumed that comprehending figurative and literal language involved different kinds...

Iromie Wijewardena is a Sri Lankan figurative expressionist artist. She has conducted many Sri Lankan local and international exhibitions since 1973. She...

watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career...

and the title of two mini-series spun off from them The Quagmire, a figurative name for the Vietnam War This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

wind sculpture in Europe. Conner is also well known for her enigmatic figurative work modeled from life, which "on an intimate and personal level probe...

of an R-clip for securing hitch pins. The word linchpin is also used figuratively to mean 'something (or someone) that holds the various elements of a...