Sentence examples for a figurative element from inspiring English sources

But balance has a figurative element as well.

All of my work has a figurative element to it.

They introduce a rhetorical figurative element - you are supposed to imagine a cloud, a misty sunrise, the face of God - instead of paring painting down to stark facts with the kind of honesty that distinguishes the white paintings of Agnes Martin or Robert Ryman.

By the mid-60s, he's back to painting a series of women again and, really, from that point onwards, there's always a strong figurative element.

His personal work is almost completely void of any figurative elements.

Phase AB, but later than fig. 11. Figure #13 - An eagle like that of fig. 12 but with one less figurative element in the wings.

I like the narrative content of his paintings, particularly the figurative element.

Each figurative element — boy, window, window grille, music rack, sculpture, candle, metronome, sketchy woman on a stool — exudes a hieratic but easy, breathing presence.

Bächli's severe grisaille palette offsets her washy, brushy touch; a preoccupation with abstract line effloresces occasionally into figurative elements (a pair of eyes or stockinged legs).

Verdure tapestry should not be confused with menues verdure, or millefleur tapestry, since the floral decoration of millefleur tapestries serves merely as a backdrop for the figurative elements of the design.

Although these works have many figurative elements, as a whole they do not resemble the bursts.