The phrase "a figurative representation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that symbolizes or illustrates an idea or concept in a non-literal way.
Example: "The painting serves as a figurative representation of the struggles faced by the community."
Alternatives: "a symbolic depiction" or "an illustrative representation".
"It's a figurative representation of a two-faced politician".
In the theatre, however, we still run the risk of judging quality by how close to a figurative representation of reality we can get.
When he looked at Kahlo's painted stories, he did not just see a figurative representation, he saw a medical mystery.
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The works in this section, including many smaller representations of Buddhist divinities in stone and gold and other metals, show that, along with Buddhist beliefs, came what seems a suddenly enhanced skill in figurative representation among Silla's artisans.
The performance kicked off the ambitious 20,0000-square foot Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian exhibition, Unrealism, a massive cross-section of figurative representation in art right now.
Raised as a Mennonite and trained at the New York Academy of Art, which favors traditional figurative representation, he brings to his art a painstaking work ethic and an earnest humanism.
Concomitant with the antipathy toward figurative representation in some cultures was a general distaste for the portrayal of all things of the exterior world, animals, landscape features, and other natural forms rarely appearing except as stylized images signifying spiritual forces of good and evil.
Will Self's latest two novels, Umbrella and Shark, are unabashed tributes to interwar Modernism, while gallery art tends to either be some limply meaningless words in neon lights, or a return to the pre-Duchamp dogmas of figurative representation.
Of the artists, 20 have studied (or, in one case, taught) at the New York Academy of Art, a school that specializes in teaching premodern modes of figurative representation.
She explained that her desire was to combine the ambiguous evocativeness of abstract painting with enough figurative representation to place the viewer in a specific time and space.
