A simple, rocking figure builds to a thundering climax, representing the goddess of love's watery birth, ebbing away to close as it opened.
This painting became a model of the figura serpentinata ("sinuous figure")—that is, a figure built up from several intertwining views.
Visitors to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, have been flocking to see the Bionic Man, a figure built from the most advanced artificial body parts.
Ang Sang's "Faces of the Buddha" (2011) is a black-and-white canvas with a Buddha figure built up from images of Che Guevara, Superman, Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and Pop Art's uber-icon Marilyn Monroe.
The strong figure builds on the second-quarter growth rate of 4.6%.
"Andy was the first sophisticated human figure built by the company," he says.
The figures build a monument to his importance.
They do not need to go through the front door anymore, they have kicked down the back door". The latest figures build on an updated report published by Apple last week.
In the nineties, a coterie of business figures built corporate empires that had little loyalty to the state.
The epigrammatic, Wayne Shortenorsaxtheme sax theme of When Planets Collide was prefaced by bell-like electronics and quiet prepared-piano clatters, and a Goloubev solo of humming tones and delicate top-end figures built to a fierce percussion climax.
"Folk Music," which Greenstein wrote in the summer of 2004, is one of the freshest pieces I've heard so far this year: a Ravel-like kaleidoscope of intertwining figures built up from the simple notes of the B-minor scale.
