That show came at a time when figurative painting was being pushed very hard, and stylistic references to 19th-century academic art and contemporary cartooning were in favor.
His hurlers were engaging in pregame stretching, but Radinsky was being a real father, not a figurative one.
Most of the time when you hear the word "inedible" it is being used in the figurative sense.
She's being literal, of course, but also figurative, metaphorical: offering a way to look at our place in the world, our place in history, that is unexpectedly concrete.
It's often representational, almost always in fact, but is never restricted to being figurative or needing to include the figure.
Thomas Jefferson may have been a freethinking, Bible-revising iconoclast, but he wasn't just being figurative when he wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that such rights are endowed by a Creator; that's what deists believe.
'Prestigious musicians are afraid of melody,' observes del Toro astutely, 'just as painters are afraid of being figurative.' A simultaneously released Guillermo del Toro boxset includes the modern vampire thriller Cronos and the Spanish Civil War ghost story The Devil's Backbone - a twin 'brother' to the more feminine Pan's Labyrinth.
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Daniel: Are you being figurative?
Some of the panels are figurative, others are ornamental.
