Sentence examples for figurative style from inspiring English sources

For years before his move to Las Vegas, he'd been one of the most prominent figures on the L.A. art scene; his work had begun in a figurative style during the mid-fifties&proceeded through Abstract-Expressionist, color-field&even more Minimalist phases until, in the early 70's, he gave up creating art objects altogether.

He returned to a more figurative style of painting.

"Nor was I related to free figurative style, pop and so on.

Mr. Carzou was known for his figurative style and the diversity of his subjects.

Until then he had worked in a roughly painted figurative style that had affinities to folk art.

Despite its shortcomings, "Kenya Art," with its bright colors and accessible figurative style, should prove to be a public draw.

Artists sampled its various strains, blended it with figurative styles and injected it with local folklore.

Hernan Bas, Ashley Snow Macomber and Michael Cline excel at varying but completely generic figurative styles.

Ms. Petyon emerged in the early 1990s; with painters like John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, she helped open the floodgates to the painterly, outsiderish, illustrational, art-smart figurative styles that by now has become a crowded genre.

After another stint in Paris he returned in 1967 to the United States, which he found changed by the civil rights movement, and to the Bay Area, where artists like Roy De Forest, William T. Wiley, Joan Brown, Robert Arneson and especially Peter Saul had developed extravagant, often caustic figurative styles.

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.