Like so many of the objects themselves, it is a history lesson in figurative form, not about the pleasures of looking so much as learning.
Still, while a football match may be considered a form of artistic expression in a figurative sense, there is much de facto art in the game that has symbolic meaning which is often ignored.
Thanks for the input, Jim! Hazy though it may be, this stance on laying bare the flesh struck an apt note in the context of my weekend at the Live Arts Festival, since by the time I saw "27," I had already attended two shows that made a spectacle of nudity, albeit in contrasting literal and figurative forms.
Slightly younger students like Chuck Close and Susan Crile worked in a figurative vein, differing with Mr. Vicente.
Of these, however, most could only be behind Grainger in a figurative sense.
A story about Donald Trump that "just can't be true" in a figurative sense.
Mr. Friedman, he added, was a settlement builder in a "figurative" sense.
When books are cited as agents of liberation, it's usually meant in a figurative sense.
In a figurative, interpretative, and cryptic sense, names and metaphors denote the person or thing in question.
The shapes are expressed in a figurative way, such as "like serpents" or "like silk textiles".
