Gradually the group dissipates until only a few isolated figures remain.
Nevertheless, she often treated dancers as isolated figures, showing little concern for complexities of group formations.
Beneath those isolated figures, the picture is inevitably a lot more complex.
Louise Brooks is a recurring figure, and here Herd also writes about the interconnected yet somehow isolated figures of Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Norma Shearer.
A few works depict isolated figures, human and otherwise, that are actually aggregates of birds or other creatures.
But unlike the ignudi, these creatures are of course not totally isolated figures.
Several of his new works portray isolated figures with shadowlike forms hovering over them.
But in the mid-1960's, he was painting huge portraits of isolated figures in their street clothes -- a complete anomaly on his curriculum vitae.
For years, high-achieving British film-makers were isolated figures: Ken Loach and Mike Leigh plodding away at home; Ridley Scott and Paul Greengrass nipping over to Hollywood; Michael Winterbottom dancing from project to project.
Most of Bacon's paintings depict isolated figures, often framed by geometric constructions, and rendered in smeared, violent colours.
