Sentence examples for figurative painting from inspiring English sources

At Manchester Art Gallery for a year, Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting brings together Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and others (to 16 Mar 2014).

For the past 100 years, the term has applied to Victorian paintings and reproductions of them, to propaganda posters, even to figurative painting in general.

"I can't say that figurative painting is something I think about a lot, but when I saw her paintings it completely recalibrated it for me," she said.

Figurative painting filled the galleries.

There was sculpture, installations and film – but no figurative painting.

So why the recent efflorescence of figurative painting?

Homer + Tolstoy like figurative painting — try to represent a world with sublime charity, beyond judgment.

"The still life has often been the stepchild to landscape, history and figurative painting," he said.

Figurative painting has been out of fashion, Ms. Klein said, but Ms. Schutz offers something fresh.

The early Carolingian artists reintroduced figurative painting and pictorial narrative to northern Europe.

Yet on the aesthetic continuum of non-figurative painting, they are almost as dissimilar as possible.