Sentence examples for figural from inspiring English sources
adjective
Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
The show aims to give equal weight to the abstract and figural work of this great artist, she says.
His energetic rendering of the thunder god is a fine example of the quirky and amusing quality of his figural painting.
One, characterized by the use of thick, jewellike enamels, is connected with the town of Aleppo; the other, notable for its exquisitely painted small-scale figural decoration, is attributed to Damascus.
The most famous saltcellar in the world is of this figural type; it is a gold and enamel piece that was made by Benvenuto Cellini and is the supreme example of goldsmith work in the Renaissance.
All of the Chorasmian figural works are so lifelike that it is evident that portraiture had reached a high state of development by the 3rd and 4th centuries ad.
Both national types are frequently decorated with rich inlay of outstanding charm and elegance composed of a variety of woods, some tinted and made to form figural and floral compositions, often in the manner of chinoiserie (Chinese motifs).
This austere linearity when depicting the human form was adopted by many other British figural artists, including the Swiss-born Henry Fuseli and William Blake, among others.
The rare instances of figural composition from mid-8th-century France are usually rather ungainly copies of late antique prototypes (e.g., the Gospels of Gundohinus, Laon, 754).
But that was the last of the series; figural compositions in high relief had adorned sarcophagi, and similar reliefs had found a place on the walls of churches, but virtually none of these dates from later than Justinian's reign.
This composition is generally regarded as one of the true monuments of figural-contrapuntal variation.
Kant's seminal idea here is that schemata can mediate between the one side (abstract universals, empirical concepts, pure concepts) and the other side (concrete particulars, empirical intuitions, objects of experience) precisely because they are at once figural-formal and also intrinsically sensory.
