Sentence examples for figures of humans from inspiring English sources
In addition to using abstract motifs, artists working in the Geometric style began using figures of humans and animals, seeing both as the sum of geometrized parts bodies becoming triangles, legs and arms becoming line segments.
Wood sculpture was otherwise restricted to representations of human heads, which were attached to canoe prows, and to small figures of humans, turtles, dugongs (sea cows), and other animals used for sexual and fertility magic.
Figures of humans, animals and mythical beasts, together with Celtic knots and interlacing patterns in vibrant colours, enliven the manuscript's pages.
Tomáš Krýza (1838 - 1918) built in a period of over 60 years a nativity scene covering 60 m² (length 17 m, size and height 2 m) which contains 1389 figures of humans and animals, of which 133 are moveable.
In the moist heat, laboriously outlined flat figures of humans and animals shared a communal living, even if it was not, as Gauguin wished it, altogether loving and harmless.
Medieval inventories record fantastic saltcellars incorporating figures of human beings and animals, some late examples of which survive.
Dr. Asefi is an artist who, at great personal risk, had disguised the figures of human beings in 80 oil paintings at the gallery by applying a veneer of watercolor paint over them.
Throughout the northern region, small carvings of birds, animals, and plants were typical sacred emblems; but in northeastern Arnhem Land, as nowhere else in Australia, large figures of human beings also were used in ritual and sometimes as grave markers.
Those figures of human species (usually males, who become increasingly hairless and light-skinned) marching boldly across the page have illustrated our evolution in many popular articles, but they have wrongly enshrined the view that evolution was simply a progression leading to us, its pinnacle and final achievement.
Conde — the country's first freely elected president — has been accused by opposition figures of human rights abuses. .
There's a different explanation of human complexity, which is simply that the new low-ball figure of human genes derived by Celera and consortium is a gross undercount.
