Though the prints are simplistic in design, they contain a wealth of ethnographic detail; the costumes of the figures blend elements of African religious rites and European carnival traditions.
Genuine historical figures blend with fictional characters, many of them talking a scattershot mixture of trade terms and creative profanity, where tough guys have stones (balls), drug addicts pop bennies (benzedrine), and dodgy deals are concluded with, "Don't shake my hand, you're too greasy to touch".
Through it all, Tony Ward's Brendan, the pub's young proprietor, casts an amiable figure, blending in with the locals but not contributing to the reminiscences.
"In other words, a figure so taken with being in nature that the figure blended with its environment.
"Reclining Figures" blends deep tones with a minimal guitar riff that just puts the mind in the right place for deep introspection.
Nevertheless, they asked and received permission from Gene Simmons to feature Kiss, drawn as animated two-dimensional figures to blend in with the series' customary appearance.
Vuillard's paintings are often interiors in which the figure blends into the wallpaper, but here, with his study of dressmakers, the half-length figures are especially assertive.
The Jungle (1943) depicts hybrid male and female figures, their bodies blending human, animal, and plant imagery within a crowded jungle filled with sugarcane and banana leaves.
In one of the show's latest paintings, a Crucifixion scene from 1938, masks and figures fuse, and both blend with the hellish atmosphere.
Bayona presents Treeson's tales as floridly old-timey animations blending computerized figures and décor with watercolor and collage, an effect that offers moments of delight until the taut tethering to Treeson's voice kicks in — and the lessons that he delivers take over.
And it takes a true, transformative figure eventually to blend into the image itself.
