Sentence examples for figurative mode from inspiring English sources

On the opposite coast in Brooklyn, The Journal Gallery has just opened "The Great Figure". In this show six artists working in a figurative mode -- including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson -- demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.

His father, Fred Klein, a Dutch-Indonesian, worked in a figurative mode, and his mother, Marie Raymond, a Frenchwoman, was a successful School of Paris abstractionist.

He would eventually renounce much of the abstract art he had championed earlier, returning to a figurative mode informed by Ingres and Poussin.

Then, in drawings and paintings and one relief construction, Mr. Ortman explores the geometry of the figures and their grouping and subjects them to his own "translations," some in a figurative mode, others geometrical.

As a painter and draftsman, there's not much he hasn't put his hand to, from portraits and panoramas on canvas to photocollage to designs for the stage and opera, always wedded to the figurative mode.

CHAWKY FRENN is a painter who has nailed down the figurative mode, and this accomplishment gives him the license to convey anything he wants, including the grand theme: the elusive meaning of human existence.

Richter is a master of contradiction a German artist of international stature who works in alternating abstract and figurative modes and gets away with it.

However, while metonymy is essentially an abridging device, other figurative modes, such as metaphor, simile, idioms, irony, personification, or hyperbole (overstatement) convey meanings, especially connotative ones, not easily conveyed in other ways.

The three started out painting in figurative style, but turned to more abstract modes in the course of their careers.

(Grace Glueck) NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM: JEAN HÉLION, through Oct. 9. Hélion's conversion, around 1940, from a suave, smartly synthetic mode of geometric abstraction to a like-minded figurative style doesn't put him in a league with great 20th-century apostates like Giacometti, Picabia or Guston.

Ibrahim El-Salahi, who led the way in mingling figurative and abstract modes, studied at the Khartoum School of Fine and Applied Arts in Sudan, then at the Slade School in London, finally settling in England.