Sentence examples for primitive figure from inspiring English sources

See, for example, a small, primitive figure of a naked woman wearing a barrel, at Jewett-Berdan of Maine.

Interestingly, there are no paintings by Mr. Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose in 1988, in "Circa 1986," but Mr. Prol's large canvas, "I Have This Cat," from 1985, is an apt surrogate, complete with a primitive figure set against a bleak cityscape marked with graffitilike scrawls.

Then there is Ugo Rondinone, the Swiss artist who has recently been making figurative sculptures (including wax casts of real people and "primitive" figures of people created from stacks of stone).

Even the graphics used to illustrate "The Origin of Love" are similar: onstage, slides depicting primitive figures were projected on the wall behind the actors; in the film, a cartoon by Emily Hubley accompanies Mr. Mitchell's voiceover.

From carving primitive figures of his girlfriend out of sticks and bits of wood on their summer holiday in 1906, to making a baboon with a toy car for its head in 1951, he always seemed to treat sculpture as child's play.

Why didn't they reduce further and strip back the clothing from the visitor?" The next stop was an untitled Stephen Birch work from 2005, an installation in which Spider-Man faces off with a primitive, phallic figure.

Police departments are having enough trouble figuring out how to use body cameras in their current, relatively primitive form, so perhaps this isn't an immediate concern.

These primitive human figures resemble each other strongly.

Marble sculptures of primitive human figures with stairs leading to templelike entrances in their backs have been violated by poured paint.

Aregno has an outstanding Pisan Romanesque church from the 11th century, Église de la Trinité e San Giovanni, made of white, dark gray and pale yellow stone blocks, with uncommon sculptures of beasts and primitive human figures on its facade.

The paintings are in a "tantra-folk" style -- often accomplished with his fingers rather than a brush -- that melds mystical Hindu-Buddhist images with popular art, ranging from enchanting primitive monster figures to an explosion of marks like fingerprints that suggests a floral spray.