The director describes his central character – a cinephile cinematheque manager facing economic obsolescence – as a Don Quixote figure "conceived for an activity about to finish its existence", a role perfectly filled by critic-turned-actor Jorge Jellinek.
Resplendent in his uniform and medals, Whitaker's Amin is a gloriously mad and grandiloquent figure, conceived by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock as a Day-Glo Shakespearean monster, with audacious hints of Othello and even Titus Andronicus, a monster for whom they have written boldly extended dialogue scenes of unabashed intelligence and theatricality.
Two smiling figures, originally conceived in 1857 and 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, were carved in marble in 1873.
Unlike her Yorkshire contemporary, Henry Moore, who typically made mother-and-child pieces as single figures, Hepworth conceived of her maternal works as two separate bodies, intimately involved.
As a young girl, she began collecting 18th-century Neapolitan figures, and conceived their eventual use in a Christmas tree creche at the Metropolitan.
There is an almost complete suppression of individuality in Indian sculpture; this is because the figures are conceived of as shapes that are more perfect and final than anything to be found in the merely transitory appearance of human models.
By this, Bacon implied that the figures were conceived as a predella to a larger altarpiece.
JJG conducted comparative genomic analyses, generated maps and figures, and conceived of and analyzed terminal labeling experiments.
THGE developed the framework, generated simulations, analyzed the data and produced new figures; PNP conceived the study and co-ordinated data collection; AP was involved in framework development; AP & PNP supervised the work; THGE, PNP and AP wrote the text.
This sculpture is distinguished not by a sense of plastic volume and fullness but rather by its linear character; the figure is conceived from the standpoint of its outline, and the figure itself is graceful, slender, and has supple limbs.
