The leading miniaturist, Hafiz Meherzad, encloses figurative scenes within exquisite borders of gold leaf and ground rock pigments.
Leihamer painted figurative scenes in the Chinese manner and also pastoral scenes; the colour range included turquoise, yellow, violet, and red.
Here that artist is Robert Greene, who exhibited charming Stettheimerish figurative scenes at Miller from 1987 to 1999, and then disappeared for several years to Europe and the West Coast.
Relief designs, taken from a wide repertory of patterns and figurative scenes, were also cast in molds (which had been impressed with stamps in the desired pattern) and then applied to the vessels.
"We would propose that the larger, more elaborate seals with figurative scenes were held only by the few people who had greater authority, while the smaller, simply incised seals were used by many more people with less authority," Dr. Gibson said.
It's great to see the story quilts with their elaborate figurative scenes framed by piecework borders, especially "Who's Bad?," a 1988 tribute to Michael Jackson's pulsing music video, and also examples from the "Feminist" series, mounted on appliquéd fabric in the manner of Tibetan thangkas.
Most are elaborately shaped and incised cross-slabs, some with figurative scenes, but lacking idiomatic Pictish symbols.
This summer Bozar, the city's main cultural institute, is giving its galleries over to Michaël Borremans, one of the leading figures of Belgium's resurgent figurative painting scene.
The Krakow-based artist, who graduated from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts only a few years after Wilhelm Sasnal, Marcin Maciejowski, and Rafal Bujnowski, creates both large and small-scale works, incredibly intricate geometrically abstract scenes, eccentric figurative work, literal battleground scenes with fantastical narratives (skeletons and rich, otherworldly colors).
Moreau was a figurative painter who created scenes based on legendary or ancient themes.
The ones here are of three types: landscapes, semiabstract cruciform compositions and figurative illustrations of biblical scenes.
