Sentence examples for figurative pictures from inspiring English sources

Steers's early, stylistically conservative figurative pictures were allegorical tableaus about psychological self-discovery.

Meanwhile, the more figurative pictures -- of houses, skyscrapers, sluice gates, maps, plants and trees -- are meant to erase negative memories.

Crisply linear figurative pictures from the late 30's and early 40's -- notably a portrait of the critic Harold Rosenberg -- update and energize Ingres and Picasso's Neoclassicism.

This is something he has been exploring for over a decade: a purist approach to colour and form that acts as a counterpoint to his figurative pictures.

When the superstar abstract expressionist Jackson "Jack the Dripper" Pollock shifted to using more recognisable figurative pictures in the early 1950s, many thought it constituted a cop-out lack of nerve, perhaps occasioned by too much fame and too much well-lubricated fun.

Chelsea Through May 3 Jenny Saville's plus-size expressionistic pictures of naked, corpulent female bodies have given figurative painting a good shot in the arm.

It feels as if Mr. Fischl is on firmer ground in his more recent, less complicated pictures, which feature his friends and family and approach figurative painting in the serious, formal tradition of artists like Philip Pearlstein, Lucian Freud or another East End master, Fairfield Porter.

This room is a collection of pictures by artists under siege, most struggling to find ways of making figurative painting relevant at a time when, it might have seemed, abstraction threatened to do away altogether with the realist painting tradition in Western art.

Figurative painting filled the galleries.

This selection of modest Cubist-style figurative and abstract pictures, mainly from the 30's and 40's, reveals an artist with a deft touch who thoroughly assimilated the formalist lessons of Hofmann as well as Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse (Johnson).

It reminds us that new painting is always, in a figurative sense, painting out the old, and it evokes the familiar Modernist tension between the material reality of painting and the imaginary space of the picture.