Sentence examples for figurative references from inspiring English sources
The now welded, sometimes bolted, steel sculptures were without bases or figurative references.
The work is a combination of portraits and abstract paintings, some with figurative references.
They teem with figurative references to vestigial body parts (fingers, hands, eyes, noses, lips, sex organs); flora (leaves, cacti); fauna (birds, snakes); domestic objects (windows, doors, pieces of furniture, kitchen utensils, handkerchiefs); symbols (arrows, speech balloons, hearts).
The editors understood the "nudge" comment as the television critic's figurative reference to Mr. Rivera's flamboyant intervention.
What really bothers me is the justification for the initial refusal to publish a correction: "The editors understood the 'nudge' comment as the television critic's figurative reference to Mr. Rivera's flamboyant intervention" and "numerous readers read the comment as a factual assertion".
Improper supposition is in effect metaphorical or figurative reference.
Presenting a series of works that fuse figurative painting with abstraction, Anderson incorporates references to nature, civil and human rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and even images of Bob Marley in his typically enormous canvases.
It feels quite as up-to-date, for its moment, as anything being painted then in New York or Cologne, where abstraction was sprouting representational marks and references on the way to revived figurative styles.
That show came at a time when figurative painting was being pushed very hard, and stylistic references to 19th-century academic art and contemporary cartooning were in favor.
Schutz's paintings, in which abstract and figurative images combine to tell enigmatic stories, sometimes carry veiled references to what's going on in the world.
It was, however, as a figurative artist that he achieved the greatest success, combining ironic references to old master prints and paintings with the direct, bold imagery of popular culture, culled from newspapers, advertising and comics.
