Figurative decolonization is as perilous a concept as figurative violence.
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Is the figurative art of now as good as the figurative art of then?
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Medium and Technique Figurative Painting: 230; Abstract versus Figurative Art: 220; Oil Painting: 103; Large Brushstrokes & Loose Brushwork: 210; Passage: 224; Impasto: 224; Gestural: 50.
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The result was an endlessly nuanced synergy, despite the formal differences between his three-dimensional, non-figurative work and her exuberantly figurative two-dimensional photographs.
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Zeller has an eye for the very best in contemporary "Figurative Realism" (his preferred term for figurative art that displays an understanding of anatomy and form).
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And a blood bath — literal and figurative — ensues.
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It speaks to the time, whether it's figurative or abstract.
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One approach consists of building figurative sculptures from found materials.
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At that point, the Bulldogs hit the figurative X button.
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Today he sees no difference between figurative and monochromatic work.
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Cueva depicts unfamiliar subjects, extending the resources of figurative painting.
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Of course Angel didn't mean it in a figurative sense.
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ASBURY PARK "Bodies," figurative paintings and drawings by five artists.
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There was not one gallery that would show figurative art.
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This story, though, goes well beyond the figurative prison walls.
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Much of it straddles the line between figurative and abstract.
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Soldiers and farmers are common subjects in Mansudae's figurative painting.
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His depiction of the border is both literal and figurative.
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The Figurative Artist's Handbook is now available from Monacelli Press.
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Often, he depicted figurative silhouettes in the foreground, mute witnesses.
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KARA: I think there's figurative work that has a spiritual component, then there's landscape work that has a figurative component; and there's social commentary in the abstract wall works that have landscape in them.
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And she means that in both the figurative and literal sense.
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These artists latched onto figurative styles to revel in unabashed homoeroticism.
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Beyoncé's Grammy Awards night is starting on a (figurative) high note!
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The scene left Perrett in figurative (and later, three actual) stitches.
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These drawings will likely surprise those who know Singh's figurative work.
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Confinement, literal and figurative, is a central theme of the film.
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Nowadays, you're just as likely to celebrate a more figurative bounty.
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I never took figurative work seriously, even when I did it.
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" He describes the rug series as "figurative paintings without a figure.
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Whether art is figurative, representational, or abstract is beside the point.
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Just look at the figurative language that Peter and Liz use.
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The only question is whether it's a figurative or literal shitstorm.
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Basically, a re-enacted crime loses out to a figurative one.
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"These artists very much took figurative art to the next step."
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Develop lower-back pain from literal, not figurative, weight of book.
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ASBURY PARK "Bodies," figurative paintings and drawings by five artists. Aug.
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Have 2999 cents you're looking to throw into the figurative garbage?
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Cobi Moules's figurative paintings are another alluring fixture of Heller's exhibition.
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The crowd was also like a figurative mixed bag of liquorice.
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These freer and less figurative classroom paintings were not shown publicly.
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The shift from figurative painting to abstraction happens when photography happens.
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And I really wanted it to be figurative, of a woman.
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He also does a lot of figurative paintings, particularly colorful portraits.
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When he does reach for figurative language, he is surpassingly vivid.
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Figurative art is a hallmark of this period in human history.
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Since Bevins is divorced, that knot is more than just figurative.
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Are there things that can be expressed only with figurative sculpture?
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So the building, a mighty, physical construct, memorializes a figurative one.
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Her figurative language often verges on excessive and can get distracting.
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There's a relatively figurative side and there's a totally abstract side.
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Nor is he afraid to court the figurative or the representational.
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Very few figurative painters go down as many roads as Bradford has.
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Distinctly figurative and aimed to educate, many of them are also wearable.
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While the earlier two are figurative, "Complicated Happiness" comes off as abstract.
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The figurative, folklore-ish forms they take on feel like an afterthought.
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Against this backdrop, a figurative piece of two women embracing was daring.
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JS: There are also more abstract paintings, which don't have figurative characters.
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A figurative picture functions as an altarpiece when it depicts holy figures.
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This is my figurative pat on the back for surviving the week.
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Unfinished begins with the idea of a figurative image coming into being.
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Her paintings combine loose and abstract artistic elements with poignant figurative drawings.
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It's difficult to describe without resorting to figurative, hyperbolic, even sentimental language.
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I was finally able to access his figurative works through his landscapes.
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People in backwaters, both figurative and literal, choose cities all the time.
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To many, they are also evasions conveyed through figurative winks and nods.
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They restricted figurative painting everywhere calling it Haram [forbidden by Islamic law].
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Often, when we talk about heartbreak we're talking in a figurative sense.
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Her figurative work is infused with her sentiments as a Palestinian refugee.
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He seemed to let it down, in a figurative sense, with fans.
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I've long made work that is figurative, psychological, emotional, and oddly funny.
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My mother, Lucy Lyon, is a self-taught cast-glass figurative sculptor.
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The wall-mounted relief sculptures of the Old Masters presented figurative subjects.
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This beautifully curated group show presents work by six young figurative painters.
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The walk down the aisle is a literal and figurative letting go.
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Each is paired with another figurative sculpture (her son was the model).
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But the iceman's tattoos consist of geometric patterns rather than figurative images.
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I had debts, figurative and literal, and I needed to work more.
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It was in 1911 that her painting went from figurative to abstract.
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But the iceman's tattoos consist of geometric patterns, rather than figurative images.
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Once they made that deal with the figurative devil, they were stuck.
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Mr. Friedman, he added, was a settlement builder in a "figurative" sense.
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They just try to move the figurative ball in the other direction.
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But I feel no shame in shouting it from the figurative rooftops.
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In the early 1960s, she temporarily turned against figurative painting and erotica.
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He mixes a distinctively Modernist, abstract iconography with anthropomorphic and figurative imagery.
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Or is she using the term "unreal" in a more figurative sense?
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His work is full of productive, smart borrowings from recent figurative art.
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Here most of our worries about his other figurative pictures are resolved.
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Kazimir Malevich turned the geometry of suprematism to figurative portraits of peasant farmers.
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What the participants don't know is that they're on a figurative lunar wheel.
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Agalmatophilia is the sexual attraction to a statue, doll, or other figurative object.
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Mobility is both literal and figurative — the opposite of stasis, which suggests entrapment.
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Not a figurative one to wake him up, either — a very literal one.
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" Further involves a figurative distance: "We can take our business plan no further.
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No one can truly own King or his work, in a figurative sense.
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The four paintings and one sculpture I encountered at Crystal Bridges are figurative.
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She tends not to blend, which gives figurative elements a simple, pop naiveté.
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Sometimes I draw myself, pop culture figures, little comics, all definitely figurative drawings.
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Infrastructure has been the literal, and figurative, foundation of America since Route 66.
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Calvin is a contemporary figurative painter whose brightly colored work revolves around youth.
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After all, Clinton did plenty of finger pointing, literal and figurative, as well.
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The test tunnel experience was bumpy in both the literal and figurative senses.
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Check the flat file for Lester Johnson, whose Figurative Expressionist slashes still wow.
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Yet, these are not sledgehammers hitting the figurative big screen of the judiciary.
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Yet there's also a comic book texture to the literal and figurative overkill.
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Even Kayne throws a figurative bone Rob's way, calling for a little empathy.
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" Then, after a figurative pause, he adds: "I just can't believe Nixon's right.
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It changed how they assessed the literal and figurative cost of free speech.
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In this century's resurgence of figurative painting, Ms. Staver is a significant precedent.
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"I wanted something tropical, something very Brazilian without being figurative," Mr. Jorge said.
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It has a show of fiery figurative paintings by Arcmanoro Niles opening Feb.
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Before, he had been occupied principally with figurative sculptures in lightweight bent wire.
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To mistake them for cyborgs is to confuse the figurative with the literal.
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"My vision now is to do a life-size figurative piece," he said.
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But examples of drawing techniques, especially abstract and figurative drawing, are much younger.
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Du Paquier's designs often integrate figurative details in such smart and playful ways.
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Figurative painter Joan Brown felt that Funk failed to present funkiness in context.
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Or an installation with black and white drawings ranging from figurative to abstract.
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The results are figurative landscapes that look like abstractions with a psychedelic feeling.
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It's a figurative world away from the glamour we've come to associate with Manhattan.
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As a figurative painter in the midst of abstraction, he was never a star.
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And that means everything could use a figurative (or literal) fresh coat of paint.
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The precision of his features wane throughout the representations, from figurative to abstract expression.
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Moore's works, though often figurative, can feel numbingly impersonal in their cold, hieratic serenity.
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Here, as elsewhere, Mr Puryear imbues an abstract form with feeling and figurative references.
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It was the competition between abstract and figurative painting, Western liberalism and socialist realism.
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Like Dupuy-Spencer, the Latinx artist Aliza Nisenbaum works in an expressive, figurative style.
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It's important to show up for your responsibilities and fulfill contracts literal and figurative.
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Four walls create a boundary that provides more figurative and literal security for people.
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Many explore the hyphenated identities of the artist, and displacement, both literal and figurative.
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There was a lot of traditional figurative painting and his work really stood out.
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I've created a variety of imagery over the years — figurative painting, photography, fashion portfolios.
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Tuymans is a figurative painter who doubts whether visual representations can ever be truthful.
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She is known for a somewhat refined Surrealistic figurative style, especially in large drawings.
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JS: How did you move from the figurative work of the 2000s into abstraction?
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Look closely, and the other figurative elements seem to fall away as abstraction, too.
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A story about Donald Trump that "just can't be true" in a figurative sense.
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It's not figurative or representational, it's abstract, and she's constantly exploring form and color.
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A large Henry Taylor figurative painting hangs over the purple plush horseshoe-shaped couch.
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What allows now for the trajectory of figurative narrative events to do its thing?
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For years, those sculptures stood out as the oldest figurative artworks on the planet.
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One thing is clear: Figurative art came late in the history of our species.
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But for thousands of generations, there's no evidence that people actually made figurative art.
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Moreover, the painting is not immediately recognizable as a Picasso, given its figurative style.
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The Iron Curtain was a figurative and political barrier that divided Europe in two.
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You paint in a figurative style that matches the straightforward title of the play.
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His fantastical figurative paintings command more than €2975,2000 for the larger canvases, he said.
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But they have been describing the health care law in lively and figurative language.
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When an artist toggles between figurative sculpture and television art, where do you land?
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Quilts, masks and figurative sculptures are central to the art of the African diaspora.
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If you were a figurative painter, it was hard to be a big player.
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These literal and figurative strides mean that Tallyrand will soon be put up for adoption.
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Bupkis Nothing (figurative) Extra credit: In Yiddish, bupkis comes from the word for goat turd.
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Wide-eyed figurative charcoals, precise still life photography, and… morphing, chaotic masses of human flesh?
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As the figurative cherry on top, their high-frequency range extends to an impressive 40,000Hz.
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The figurative paintings teach people to love the black paintings more than they would without.
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Everything in the Bible is about sustenance -- both literal, like food, and figurative, like faith.
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The physical and figurative disappearance of Grigory Yakovlevich Yakovin registered as mystery rather than tragedy.
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What's driving this trend isn't an IRL push toward these communities, but a figurative one.
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Jeff Donaldson's "Victory in Zimbabwe" seems out of place among all the textured, figurative works.
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Even less figurative works, such as a mosaic of communist youths at play, are intricate.
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Sometimes the original form of the items is preserved, other times they become completely figurative.
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Great. You're a button-pusher in both the figurative and literal sense of the word.
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Her figurative paintings and these abstract works on paper add up to an extraordinary achievement.
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But on a figurative level, the show isn't really here to get pretty for you.
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Their chosen artists are diverse and vital, working in abstraction, figurative illustration, photography, and beyond.
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It wasn't until the late 19th century that this figurative meaning started to become widespread.
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Actually pulling it off, however, involves a lot of moving parts — both literal and figurative.
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Figurative painter Prudence Flint, paints realistic scenes with palettes of downy pinks and supple mauves.
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The sturdy figurative paintings of Giordanne Salley and Anna Mendes more than hold their own.
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The message from UConn is figurative, while the message from St. John's was very literal.
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"There was no figurative painting with that kind of scale and muscle," he told me.
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In times of war, literal or figurative, we need to give thanks more than ever.
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Like many a Paley creation, Rose is a ribald genius of home-brewed figurative language.
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An epilogue reduces that figurative nest to nothing but the twigs it was made of.
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To be honest, I think the wall is more figurative, and more of a saying.
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Both Welles and Hitchcock were larger than life, in both figurative status and literal size.
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Artists go through these creative ebbs and flows; shedding their figurative skin, as it were.
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I have a late piece from the 1940s when he went into kitschy figurative stuff.
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I was painting these brushy paintings — figurative — and then, thankfully, it all just fell apart.
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This is reflected in contemporary figurative painting with image overlays, and the fracturing of forms.
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She flirts with a central shape, which gestures toward the figurative while remaining resolutely abstract.
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This is probably why I love figurative art so much, because I like the faces.
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After moving to San Francisco, she largely abandoned figurative work in favor of the abstract.
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"Figurative art developed in Southeast Asia at the same time as in Europe," Aubert said.
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The groundskeepers use familial terms to refer to each other — and they're not always figurative.
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As they try to achieve that, it has brought out some lively and figurative language.
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It only takes a (figurative) handful of great equipment to ensure your trip goes smoothly.
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Again, Uber hits the user on the figurative nose with its safety warnings and instructions.
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But to call these paintings narrative or figurative is to deprive them of their own quality.
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With or without the figurative allusion, like much of Smith's work, its emotional force is huge.
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Noticeably absent from this press conference, however, was any handholding — either the literal or figurative kind.
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I do not need figurative, beautiful language when trying to determine whether or not I'm pregnant.
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Another Dallas Art Fair acquisition, Summer Wheat's Bread Winners is an accomplishment of experimental figurative painting.
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"It allows me to bounce between abstract and figurative spaces in production and presentation," he said.
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No, they didn't, and that means Mariah is still the shiny star atop the figurative tree.
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In their selections, the curators focused on the most abstract, least figurative paintings from the series.
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Abney's works are typically characterized as narrative figurative paintings that are graphically bold and colorfully striking.
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But rather than worry about figurative knife fights, Cruz is more concerned about plant-based proteins.
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There is joy to these juxtapositions of ancient and contemporary, figurative and abstract, gilded and modest.
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Photo by Amy Wood Cameron Reed wears many hats—both in the figurative and literal sense.
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It's a Lynchian picture of the tormented mind, depression's figurative end of the world made literal.
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Jean and many others brought in Neo-Expressionism and figurative work back into the art world.
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Petersen embraced both the literal and figurative schleps necessary to build something new in freight forwarding.
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By that time, she had begun to gravitate from abstraction toward fanciful figurative imagery, loosely brushed.
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Mr. Duwenhögger, now 2212, is a sly, seductive storyteller adept in several mediums, especially figurative painting.
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But, in the case of a panic attack, there's not necessarily a literal or figurative bear.
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Wheeler is not just the figurative embodiment of the swamp, but the literal embodiment of it.
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The incident dumped a bucket of ice water over the figurative heads of autonomous-vehicle developers.
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I see CUNY as being the figurative and literal epicenter of a lot of these activities.
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He has freely mixed figurative with abstract, unwilling to align himself to any school or ism.
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The two figurative painters who stand out, to my mind, are Henry Taylor and Dana Schutz.
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Of course, this means that the authors of any figurative drawings will probably escape public shaming.
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It's the figurative equivalent to blazing a championship trail with dumpster fires -- just minus the fires.
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Initially humans made figurative painting of large animals and they later start depicting the human world.
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Abstract paintings aren't segregated from the figurative ones, they are mixed together to reveal something new.
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It only takes about a (figurative) handful of great gear to ensure your trip goes smoothly.
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Starting in the late nineteen-seventies, young American artists plunged, pell-mell, into making figurative paintings.
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A handful of evocative abstract and figurative paintings hinted at a philosophical subtext to the images.
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Figurative, abstract, conceptual, post-minimal, these were unheralded men and women needing space, time, and funding.
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Ms. Demosthene's flat figurative works are mysterious in their construction, which is part of their allure.
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He started spending more time with his hot rods and with unfashionable, figurative styles of painting.
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For example, "Doubt" (2010) by Titus Kaphar, where a figurative bronze male kneels in fervid anguish.
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The theatrical spirit runs so strong in Yogyakarta that it has energized the figurative arts as well.
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At that point, however, Tennessee stomped all over the figurative X button and hid from the Islanders.
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Walking around galleries, I saw a lot of figurative work that was not emotional, like Warhol silkscreens.
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A reminder that, once upon a time, rewinding a tape was a literal rather than figurative action.
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Thriving houseplants provide both a literal and figurative breath of fresh air to an otherwise stale space.
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When she produced figurative pieces, she focused mostly on mythical subjects such as Medea or Aesop's fables.
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In the last decade, mainstream publishers and studios have found a figurative gold mine in audio fiction.
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Willumsen's work features terse poetry ("view of sight / anticipation of image / front desire … ") accompanied by figurative drawings.
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Some share that fact with a casual shrug; others celebrate it with a (figurative) ticker-tape parade.
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Yet they are not gestural, not figurative, and so a question arises: with what are we empathizing?
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As the market-experts vie for the top spot, one trader has already made a figurative fortune.
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Once the fish are prepared, "people go crazy for the taste," but only in the figurative sense.
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Figurative artists, like Charles White, a socialist-realist, were often considered by museums to be formally uninventive.
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The figurative painting is of wild cattle, part of a large panel with three large animal paintings.
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He set "The Pale King" in Peoria, the figurative perfect middle of the country since vaudeville days.
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There are also metallic surfaces and figurative neons, a medium she chose for its clinical, ghostly light.
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"I am a traditional figurative oil painter, painting in a stylized realism," Fabia tells The Creators Project.
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Throughout his life, Buffet remained committed to his figurative technique and the atmosphere he aspired to evoke.
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And not surprisingly, the figurative and literal burden of their weight has gradually accumulated over the years.
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How personally to take Jackson Pollock's half-abstract, half-figurative "Untitled [Drawing for P.G.]" is another matter.
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Such expressions are one way Ms. Saul infuses her direct, figurative style with a sense of mystery.
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Fallow time is necessary to grow everything from actual crops to figurative ones, like books and children.
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"If these are really the figurative tombstones of our earliest ancestors, the implications are staggering," Allwood said.
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Ladd's previous work was in figurative sculpture, including several bronzes exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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Swenson has a predilection for figurative language that occasionally hits the lyrical mark but more often distracts.
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They're built like trap doors, figurative ones, and with wormholes, through which everybody falls: characters, audiences, props.
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I left the figurative style and began to do mental maps — like mental, intellectual terrain or poetry.
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Anyone who knows the American South knows the cultural primacy of community, church, harmonies figurative and literal.
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He is not purely abstract, like Odili Donald Odita, nor is he purely figurative, like Henry Taylor.
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He is slowly creating his own idiom, though, somewhere between abstract and figurative painting, sculpture and installation.
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Completed in 1913, with Mulholland as its chief engineer, it opened flood gates both literal and figurative.
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Clips from political rallies are played out of context, revolutionary language is translated without its figurative meaning.
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He waved his figurative garden hose and sprayed these teams with hundreds of millions of investment dollars.
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The two main floors of the show, five and six, each begin with a large figurative painting.
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Texas demonstrate, momentum has a way of catapulting an issue to the front of the figurative queue.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's difficult to surprise art audiences with figurative work these days.
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"The Chaperone" is about a woman who abandons her literal and figurative corsets and discovers her bliss.
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There is no hierarchy between figurative and abstract paintings, nor are there distinctions about materials or processes.
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"Wizard"'s straightforward figuration coaxes out the figurative leanings of Aldrich abstractions and calls forth varied interpretations.
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Now she gets to be the good guy, and she's going in with (figurative) guns a-blazin'.
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Several ceramicists featured at NADA Miami Beach took a more deconstructive approach to figurative shapes and images.
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The Saints put a figurative bounty on his defense, and the price would be paid in points.
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And with a figurative sledgehammer, Gabrielle Union destroyed the idea that women are raped because of their outfits.
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Miller started out as a still life photographer working with flowers, but wanted to get into figurative art.
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Their sweeping aerial perspectives are shot in a style that verges on abstraction without losing their figurative referent.
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"So I wanted the work to be seductive," interspersing her figurative and abstract practice with layers of meaning.
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It's also known as the "festival of the sacrifice," and, in some communities, that "sacrifice" isn't merely figurative.
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For Mighty, it means a figurative seal of approval, along with a literal one on the product's packaging.
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And of course countless artists have created figurative or abstract works by drawing in black on white paper.
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Instead, the relationship between them was that they were figurative paintings depicting single individuals or groups of people.
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The custom co-existed with Islam, the main religion, which has historically forbidden figurative representation of human beings.
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All three are mostly devoted to abstraction (in distinct styles), though occasionally their works veer into the figurative.
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The later stories in "Prodigals," on the figurative B-side, are more experimental and a bit less persuasive.
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Gonella's bright colors aren't far from monumental painter Katharina Grosse's, while the former's compositions are much more figurative.
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He later took his work to the studio, where he blended a street art aesthetic with figurative painting.
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Olympic athletes are recognized as "ambassadors" only in the figurative sense, not as a matter of international law.
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Like other artists at the time, he gravitated towards more figurative art after an era defined by abstraction.
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At that time I knew Scully's earlier figurative works from reproduction, but hadn't seen them in the flesh.
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When the worst outcome we're used to with most computers is figurative crashes, literal ones are pretty intimidating.
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I started thinking about how I could tell a story without figurative elements, but still using representational forms.
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It could be said that the artistic works, on a figurative basis, refer to 'God's point of view.
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It's about trying to outrun your demons, first on a figurative and then on a very literal level.
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I'm not just going to go to a place and paint a figurative image that's not from there.
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She is obliged to tally the inheritance, both literal and figurative, her "monster mother" has bequeathed to her.
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Most of Calvin's practice is currently composed of sun-drenched, at times vibrant figurative portraits of moody teens.
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"If one thinks back to that period, figurative art was seen to be old hat," Mr. Brooks said.
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To me, it's the figurative parallel to literally putting your foot on someone's head and holding them down.
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Knowing that, why in the world would Tesla put all its figurative eggs in the lithium-ion basket?
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Robert Cenedella, a veteran figurative painter, is a pupil of George Grosz.
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But there are glimmers, too, of the whimsical, figurative, emotive glyphs that have come to dominate online culture.
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I would be remiss if I didn't mention one figurative painter here: Ashley Norwood Cooper, with Zinc gallery.
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So like instead of painting figurative paintings—you know Malevich is reacting to very specific Russian religious iconography.
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One is an established figurative painter, the other is relatively unknown and a possible rising art-world star.
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It could be abstract or figurative, meticulously planned and diagramed or a product of experimentation and happy accident.
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The world that Aliza Nisenbaum, another figurative painter included in the Biennial, depicts, is focused on Mexican immigrants.
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The exhibition comprised drawings and paintings, from her figurative trees and portraits to her most significant abstract works.
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Journalist, activist and foundational second-wave feminist, Gloria Steinem has been in the figurative spotlight for five decades.
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By then, figurative art was resurgent, thanks to painters such as John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Kehinde Wiley.
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James is the figurative Frazier left hook, primed to rearrange the facial features of any anticipated series dynamic.
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But, critically, habitat destruction (often for timber or agriculture) is also making "figurative islands" around species, noted McKeon.
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The documentary frames football as Hernandez's figurative "beard," a socially accepted tool to protect his rumored sexual identity.
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The Figurative Mondrian continues at the Musée Marmottan Monet (2, rue Louis-Boilly, Paris, France) through January 26.
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Thumbing one's nose at a grand jury subpoena does not lead to a figurative slap on the wrist.
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Plus, Lillard grew up in the figurative backyard of Oracle Arena, where Golden State plays its home games.
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As a young artist, he had a talent for figurative, realistic art but preferred a radical, abstract approach.
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Already, reports have surfaced of Republicans forming circular firing squads, with figurative trigger fingers pointed right at Saccone.
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On Wednesday, Sotheby's held a 21900-lot auction of technically proficient 1.53th- and early 21.5th-century figurative sculpture.
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Claire Stankus Stankus's paintings focuses on the interpretation of ordinary scenery depicted using both landscape and figurative imagery.
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The show begins with Lewis's early figurative work, which primarily depicts his local community during the Great Depression.
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At the end of the day, we return to our hotels to recharge our batteries, both figurative and literal.
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His style is both dark and otherworldly, indebted to figurative painters like Francis Bacon and realists like Edward Hopper.
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Matt Bollinger, a figurative painter from Independence, Missouri, has become one of our most articulate chroniclers of Trump's America.
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These are the more figurative works in the show, which also contains numerous explorations of form, color, and material.
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His absence, both literal and figurative, fills the pages of Ghost Of. Each day I want my hair short.
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While mostly figurative, Lubin's attention to color and texture also yields small pockets of rich abstraction within her compositions.
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This made more sense [to me] than reintroducing objects, since there is always a figurative side to the object.
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The mixed-media artist came to the United States in 1999, channeling her cultural shift into large, figurative collages.
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Will it hit Tilted Towers, the figurative 'downtown' of the map and the most popular landing spot by far?
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We've got our reading glasses and giant cups of tea (literal and figurative) at the ready for this one.
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In the figurative sense, The Bachelor makes us faintly aware that we're peering in on the beginnings of intimacy.
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After nearly a decade of limiting her marks, Singh returned to figurative painting with a vocabulary of abstract marks.
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The paintings remain figurative, but fold into a soft cubism sometimes reminiscent of the planar prisms of Franz Marc.
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It's tempting to say that each is an individual, and yet that would introduce a hint of the figurative.
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Being looked at by a gay man threatens to turn any man into a figurative woman: subordinate, weak, penetrable.
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I told myself it was a formal exercise, that they were figures, and that I was a figurative painter.
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JS: Can you talk about other figurative artists who are important to you, who exemplify that kind of approach?
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It wasn't the kind of game that's supposed to haunt you, nor was this the "figurative" variety of haunting.
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A self-described representational figurative painter, Gross mostly paints with oils on canvas, and occasionally on panel or paper.
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You've probably seen them before—crisp and figurative, while capturing the most provocative elements of our nation's famed landmarks.
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It begins with Guston's earliest paintings of classically inspired figurative works with blocky, big-eyed portraits and narrative backgrounds.
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"The observatories in the United States are all under the same figurative roof, we're all one agency," she says.
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Uh... Hahaha, yes, making jokes about your dad having (even figurative) sex is a totally normal thing to do.
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Sometimes it's figurative, like the sisters in The Blind Assassin, who live out each other's fantasies in the shadows.
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But within the confines of the film, and for Sampha specifically, they represent both a literal and figurative limbo.
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Now that Dream Chaser is a go with NASA, its European counterpart is also back on the figurative launchpad.
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Some of Spring/Break's most over-the-top booths star painting, especially the figurative kind that's currently in fashion.
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Two advances since then have helped shed some figurative light on whatever is going on in our galaxy's core.
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Finally, in the "Postlude," artists such as Alberto Giacometti turn their backs on automation and return to figurative work.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Trust me, I am often the last person to connect the figurative dots in a nuanced situation.
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Although no punches have yet to be thrown, Paul and Brown traded figurative jabs late Monday night on Twitter.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former vice president Joe Biden — have come to figurative blows over this very issue.
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This is evidence of the literal and figurative sea change that the city has experienced over the past decade.
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After a traumatizing auto accident in 1979, the work turned figurative, intensely focused on autobiography and African-American politics.
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The first major survey of the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a figurative painter, opens at the Tate Britain.
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Last year, the researchers also found a figurative painting of an animal in Borneo dated to 40,000 years ago.
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According to the brand's press release, the Meteor Shower Jitney bag holds both figurative and literal connections for Abloh.
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Throughout his career, Baki has integrated expressionist and abstract affinities into his figurative scenes with a streetwise visual vocabulary.
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Ferhat Özgür: The Gezi Park protests, or the "June Resistance," was the figurative straw that broke the camel's back.
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Soon, Hauser & Wirth is set to dedicate three floors of its gallery in New York to her figurative drawings.
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In an act of literal and figurative transparency, 250 Bowery's entranceway features 90 feet of floor-to-ceiling glass.
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" That, of course, is "figurative and not specific," wrote Caroline Reynolds, "but you can fit it to the situation.
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His subjects include recognizable and abstracted figurative subjects, particularly musicians, sometimes based off of photographic references and newspaper images.
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Large but not histrionically so, these works teeter towards abstraction but prevail as figurative renderings of intensely private moments.
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Ranging from pitchers and vases to bowls and plates, many feature figurative images, from deathly skulls to grimacing figures.
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He paints figurative portraits with live, impressionistic rendering of skin tones of pale brown, signaling his own Latino heritage.
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Or when it comes to painting, in the last few years I've seen a huge reinvestment in figurative painting.
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The mid-century debate over the figurative and the abstract—which Greenberg's coining of the term "post-painterly abstraction" did much to further—aligned the figurative with illusion: the illusion of depth in a canvas, and the pretense of three-dimensional human life on what was, in truth, an inert, two-dimensional surface.
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Namely, to "stand for" or to "stand with" veterans could be construed as figurative, when the meaning was intentionally literal.
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Awkwardly figurative, like portraits of the self-absorbed, her paintings aptly describe our daily encounters with personal or cultural narcissism.
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And so once you look with proper, careful, slow attention, you will discover that his figurative works are surprisingly varied.
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Its previous holders have created figurative works using oil, ink and photography to record the four general elections since 2001.
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After all the grandest, most eye-catching and figurative works—enormous totem poles and paintings—are usually made by men.
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Mario traded in his notional hammer for a figurative wrench and became a plumber; he also gained a brother, Luigi.
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When Lawrence goes from being a figurative to literal punching bag in the movie's finale, she is all but unrecognizable.
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"Valentine85" doesn't turn up much on other platforms so let's stick that in our figurative back pockets and move on.
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But now the literal use of flatness in his new figurative painting bears unmistakable visual traces of passing through abstraction.
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She can't miss — she pleases the last admirers of concept art and pleases the first admirers of new figurative art.
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My work is figurative storytelling, so with Ali, I try to capture the various dimensions and nuances to his life.
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More generally, the answer is that Trump is not bright enough to understand the difference between literal and figurative language.
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It is subtly surprising to realize that we can empathize just as intensely with a non-figurative work of art.
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Collectively, the works include narrative-based figurative works and abstractions as provocative meditations on bodies loaded with desire and possibility.
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There's so much going on in your sock portraits in terms of merging humor with horror and figurative with abstraction.
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Anyway, in our figurative scenario, despite local prohibition and the threat of mutilation, you've decided to try fireworks for yourself.
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The exhibition looks at portraits through the prism of social media even as it draws on the Whitney's figurative tradition.
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Her gallery — dominated by figurative art — was obscured by the advent of Abstract Expressionism and its dealers in the '50s.
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The more boomers (real or figurative) rage, the more younger generations sublimate their anger beneath layers of irony and absurdity.
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"If these really are the figurative tombstones of our earliest ancestors, the implications are staggering," Allwood wrote in the article.
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He staunchly adhered to figurative painting at a time when Abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art were seen as avant-garde.
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In later years she was a frequent speaker on behalf of people with mental illness and an accomplished figurative painter.
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The greatest achievement of "Pickle Rick" is how it takes Freudian symbolism out of the figurative and into the literal.
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Beckmann's politically and morally charged figurative art and its idiosyncratic mix of Modernist and Medieval styles, fell on blind eyes.
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More than turning asteroids into money, however, today's space mining entrepreneurs are intent on turning asteroids into figurative gas stations.
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The push-pull between abstract gesture and figurative gestalt also manifests in the paintings' captivating tension between movement and stasis.
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With their arrival in Arriaga, on the 15th day of their journey, they had reached a literal and figurative crossroads.
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Figurative language and symbol systems still resonate powerfully and connect intimately for people of the great religions and of none.
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Some of the work are enlarged objects from everyday life, others are abstract weavings, and some are slightly figurative works.
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What he most remembers is the hunger, both literal and figurative, that these rudimentary state-run schools induced in him.
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It's relatable, because major urban centers like NYC hock figurative loogies into the mouths of their residents all the time.
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George W. Bush widened the partisan rift, but culturally, Mr. Bush — the future figurative painter — was open-minded and active.
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 This book has the figurative and literal heft of Clifton's poetic oeuvre.
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The literal waters are rising, and the president of the United States is a figurative one-man swamp of corruption.
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How long will MbS be prepared to stand on the sideline, his physical as well as figurative position in Dhahran?
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The most anticipated show of the season is the Met Breuer's retrospective of the American figurative painter Kerry James Marshall.
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She moved on to figurative painting before turning to what is known as the Art Informel style of Abstract Expressionism.
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But soon, his brand of Cubism evolved into an automaton-esque figurative style distinguished by his focus on cylindrical forms.
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Earth is now at two-and-a-half minutes from midnight, with midnight being the figurative end of the world.
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Given Klee's arduous path toward non-figurative painting, abstraction may seem like a counterintuitive theme for a retrospective of his work.
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They prefer to live in the soil or in freshwater, where they can feast on bacteria to their (figurative) hearts' content.
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While much of Vyakul's art contains figurative elements (a serpent's body, for example), there are also circles, ellipses, ovoids, and lines.
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Serra and Renzetti's work also includes their brand of figurative portraits—both sculptural and flat 3D works—veiled in frosted glass.
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In themselves and in comparison with one another, his minimalist painting series' are far from one-note exercises in figurative abstraction.
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At the same time, his connection to figurative sculptors, such as Mary Frank or Stephen de Staebler, is tenuous at best.
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Yes, Lady Gaga's halftime performance at Super Bowl LI was a literal and figurative mic drop, but we're already looking ahead.
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Plus Raymond Arroyo will be here to expose the literal and figurative stars broken by a PC culture gone totally mad.
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The piece is no longer an inanimate interpretation of a figurative subject: it breathes, moves and follows the person it's on.
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Filled with magic, gods, and dreamers (both literal and figurative), Strange the Dreamer has everything a fantasy-lover could ask for.
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The position proved both a literal and a figurative butting of heads as both men fought to control the fight's momentum.
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Sudjic's figurative approach to depicting social media is what really marks it as the first truly literary book largely about Instagram.
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After the mother's literal death and before the father's figurative death—the moment of departure—Nadia moves into Saeed's childhood home.
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Yet, the following two acts have paid their figurative dues, have been given enough time for consideration, and now demand action.
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He—or his hand, as his mind's executive—wrenched figurative sculpture from millennia of tradition and sent it tumbling into modernity.
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A separation of prison glass between Tish and her lover becomes the literal and figurative system seeking to destroy them both.
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The ambitious foreign trip presents an opportunity to create distance, literal and figurative, between the President and a scandal-obsessed Washington.
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The dust-up in Germany thus is symbolic, although there's nothing figurative about the CSU's unswerving onslaught against Merkel since 2015.
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A person wants to "sing" to the impending danger, but also to abide by the other's injunction to avoid figurative language.
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Another highlight is Tania Bruegera's figurative sculpture, "Displacement" (1998/2005), which is made from Cuban earth, glue, wood, nails, and textile.
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Second is the slightly figurative abstraction seen in Amy Sillman, Math Bass, Sadie Benning, and two late works by Robert Colescott.
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Lewis Hazelwood-Horner was awarded the 22016 Columbia Threadneedle Prize for figurative art for his oil painting of an umbrella factory.
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A collection of nearly 900 works by the figurative painter Alex Katz is a highlight at the college's museum of art.
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The Dominican-born figurative artist, whose real name is Elio Mercado, has become a prominent figure in Miami's street art community.
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Being nominated for this year's Turner Prize certainly galvanized the auction market for works by the British figurative painter Hurvin Anderson.
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The switch to figurative art represented an important shift in how people thought about the world around them — and possibly themselves.
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All these images Ms. Kalman rendered in gouache in a delectably colored figurative style indebted to David Hockney and Florine Stettheimer.
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Here's an analogy: We should teach students traditional etiquette for the same reason most great abstract painters first mastered figurative painting.
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Rama returned to figurative works in her later years, when she made even more literal the overlapping of bodies and contraptions.
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Mostly Dead Things is a story about parents, art, sex, sexual art, grief, death, love, and messiness both literal and figurative.
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There's a painter who has tons of really remarkable work, Henry Taylor, large-scale figurative paintings of everyday life in California.
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Sisterhood, both figurative and biological, is complicated and fraught with all the positive and negative qualities that human relationships can express.
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This is Donald Trump's fondest figurative dream: to be able to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
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But part of the beauty of the style is that figurative speech and descriptive speech are for Henry exactly the same.
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In the early 1970s, African-American artists were often encouraged to pursue a figurative art style that represented the black experience.
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Comparing "Throat Cut" to most of his other figurative works is to emphasize just how rigidly his subjects are usually posed.
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Due to the fragile nature of her early watercolors, "Woman with Apron" is the only figurative work by O'Keeffe on display.
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The three large paintings in the exhibition mark Whitten's turn away from the overtly figurative to a form of subliminal figuration.
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But in recent years her pioneering work has been "rediscovered" in an art world that historically dismissed much figurative, realist painting.
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At the same time, we are witness to how propaganda today is used in the most figurative, and effective, ways; the videos produced by Daesh couldn't be more figurative, and they strike fear in the hearts of Americans, which, at the end of the day, help the US push their agenda in the Middle East further.
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The white walls of the space are copiously hung, salon style, with a mélange of disquieting drawings and small, black, figurative sculptures.
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There, under the guidance of the Russian sculptor, Opal Zadkine, Catlett was encouraged to infuse her figurative sculptures with more abstract elements.
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Language acquisition often relies on learning abstract and figurative concepts that are very hard—if not impossible—to "explain" to a computer.
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"We we help the user pay a figurative amount that they can afford by subsidizing the rest through private donations," Dijkhuis explained.
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Step back, and the jumble of materials may resolve into a figurative form, like Magic Eye pictures suddenly revealing an underlying image.
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The skeleton is an important component of my workspace as my artwork is figurative-based and makes references to the human body.
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Patterson owns the current championship belt — a figurative one for now, although Bazemore has been tasked with ordering an actual belt online.
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It is a stance that runs counter to other, better-known figurative artists, such as Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, and Fairfield Porter.
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Once people start looking at art, and the audience is gathered—which usually starts with figurative art, then abstract art will follow.
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They call it the swimming pool because they want to see if you can swim by throwing you into the figurative pool.
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Someone recently asked me how I navigate the space between my abstract and figurative paintings, which I often paint side by side.
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And as a final send-off, he's putting the label's signature plaid where its figurative mouth is when it comes to diversity.
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For the last two decades, the celebrated artist Rashid Johnson has been obsessed with the mid-century black figurative painter Bob Thompson.
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The president's opponents are going to need more than that figurative cancellation, however; they're going to need a real plan of action.
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Soldevilla contributed five of her own works, among them "Rythme," which displays the expressive vigor and figurative character of her earliest reliefs.
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Considering their literal and figurative positions atop pedestals, historical objects in museums, films, or books can seem like infallible sources of knowledge.
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The urge to make figurative work was always there, and when I saw it in the world, it was an intense experience.
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The Melbourne artist's intimate and sparsely-populated compositions hint at former figurative artists who came before like Edward Hopper and Alex Katz.
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" He believes in them "as a figurative sign of haunting, given everything that [he] experienced growing up in the Vietnamese refugee community.
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The overwhelming figurative detail of Virginia Wagner's Wake brazenly sticks out next to a subdued, almost monochromatic painting by James Case-Leal.
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They will be forever limited, believing that their literal and figurative ghettos are a permanent reality from which there is no escape.
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When we think of postwar English painting, we think of Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, or Lucian Freud — expressionist figurative painters.
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That ambiguity—between satire and traditional figurative relations—continues in Dupuy-Spencer's landscapes, which may be the strongest element of the show.
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ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
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There is no guarantee that the French will be able to steer Sahelian forces through any figurative minefields, and do so correctly.
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This sort of inquiry allows them to trim the (sometimes literal but mostly figurative) fat and optimize every aspect of their processes.
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This show has a little bit for every taste, from abstract to figurative collage, which is both its strength and its weakness.
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Its wearer is what traditionally makes the difference here, turning an inanimate pimped-out object into the figurative crown that it is.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads New York City galleries are raining down a smattering of group shows that showcase figurative painting.
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Personally, I think it's more figurative, especially because months and months have gone on and Sansa really hasn't developed a baby belly.
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I love playing formal games in the work, but I want the figurative elements and the formal elements to inform one another.
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While a steadfast figurative artist throughout her career, two dominant subjects have emerged in Hogan's work in recent years: gardens and portraiture.
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The figurative ramparts enveloping the Patriots' complex here, built on secrecy and communal silence across nearly two fruitful decades, suddenly seemed fractured.
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Geometric or figurative, dyed or embroidered, extravagant or subtle, the kimonos, obi sashes, and outer robes depicted in the paintings are astonishing.
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Though Ms. Proske could have cut some of the more obscure lines, the figurative language catches the ear like a barbed hook.
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May's deal that would have given Parliament some say in shaping the political declaration — a way of taking off the figurative blindfold.
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In Australia, the purchase was controversial because "Blue Poles" was American rather than Australian, abstract rather than figurative and very, very expensive.
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It made Pollock himself so happy that he threw in "Echo: Number 21970, 211," one of his quasi-figurative black enamel paintings.
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Their list of recent brush fires, literal and figurative, now includes a four-game sweep at Citi Field by the Chicago Cubs.
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But the expression is figurative, and the practice tends not to include chain link fences, makeshift blankets and cries in the night.
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The Obamas' recent selection of artists to paint their official portraits drew attention to the rich tradition of African-American figurative painting.
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But it also is more than 40,0003 years old, scientists reported on Wednesday, making this the oldest figurative art in the world.
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But the goal of these protests isn't just to make a lot of noise—both literal and figurative—and attract media coverage.
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The shofar is meant to awaken us from our figurative slumber — a startling reminder that we are often sleepwalking through our lives.
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And the range is impressive, with figurative and abstract pieces, obvious and subtle ones, those that are introspective and those that shout.
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VENN FREDERIC They're Colon figurative sculptures depicting occupations — policeman, doctor, baker — held by colonists in the Ivory Coast between 1893 and 1920.
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It's about a 10-minute walk from the Belvédère to Can Decreix, but in a figurative sense the journey is much longer.
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A 240-point play by Brewton drew Memphis within 229-244, but at that point, Wichita State pressed the figurative X button.
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While I'm sure we'll be hearing more about the story soon, what I can say is that Magaña's illustrations are gorgeously figurative.
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It meant one looked for strands of modernism that didn't go in the direction of avoiding the figurative, the narrative, the political.
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Figurative groupings and ascending angels — such as those in "Ecclesiastical Angels (Angels of Peace and Mercy)" (1905) — are among his strongest contributions.
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The poems are printed on separate canvases placed flush with Mokgosi's figurative paintings of a range of African and African American figures.
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On any given day, it's not unusual to see people punching the figurative clock at the local Starbucks and other neighborhood haunts.
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It claims that in response to a retraction request, counsel for NBC Universal said Maddow was using "literally" in a figurative sense.
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After Bannon left the White House on Friday, later telling CNBC that he meant a figurative war fought by Breitbart's "happy warriors."
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On Friday, March 13, scholars, collectors, and artists will gather for a symposium about the impact of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
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Jodie Mack and Leeza Meksin ponder the signifying potential of abstraction, particularly around displays of patterns and materials, and their figurative associations.
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So, Tim told me a story about being ... it's a great story, because it's both literal and figurative at the same time.
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Mr. Tuymans is credited with bringing painting back in the 1980s, by pioneering a style of figurative painting based on found images.
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Further expressing my ignorance, I asked whether the beads and laces and figurative images were intended to convey a Native American aesthetic.
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Up close and in person, Prager's works appear non-figurative, but step a few feet away, and a face materializes—Prager's own.
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Doorways and windows figure heavily in this body of work, representing Buie's literal and figurative transitions between different states, places, and identities.
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In fact, you could say that the front cover (crow's head) is figurative and the back cover (crow's tail feathers) is abstract.
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The view from the window, a patchwork of buildings and fields, turned Zeid away from figurative paintings in favour of more abstract works.
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Of the almost 200 full-sized figurative statues in the entire New York City area, NYC Parks says only four represent real women.
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Gallant images of cowboys, outlaws, and ranch hands are recast as collage cuts-out that merge their figurative subjects with harsh desert landscapes.
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In Season 3 of You're The Worst, each week's figurative feelings gut-punch has somehow managed to hit as hard as the last.
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His work paved the way for a new generation of figurative painters, and his absence in the art world will surely be felt.
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Although more interest in the idioms of figurative folk art, Ryggen would occasionally dabble in abstractionism to express the ineffable qualities of violence.
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"To ask people to stand with our veterans, "stand with," becomes figurative, it can mean generally support our message," Hoellwarth told VICE News.
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And then, the very instant I allow myself to picture what life looks like after that figurative snip, my reverie comes crashing down.
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He made the decision to paint the figurative work that was expected of him at PAFA while also painting his earliest black paintings.
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A large part of my practice is devoted to painting directly from the model, alongside other figurative artists, in weekly life drawing groups.
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On New Year's Eve, it was the opposite: six stories down was the figurative height of urban accomplishment, a gleaming destination unto itself.
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So, Casey's figurative character was assassinated, and he was turned into a ridiculous DJ and sneakerhead who couldn't help but scream every syllable.
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The new look and feel they bring is meant to turn Apple Stores into a figurative, and on some levels literal, town square.
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JF: Well I for one will be listening because I need it and I really welcome you to the microphone literal and figurative.
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When the first-generation American Abstract Expressionists Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning made figurative work after their breakthrough into abstraction, critics moralized.
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As one of the oldest styling tropes in the figurative fashion book, this idea is not only dated, but it's also downright illogical.
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Any tension that arises — like, if that lightning short-circuits your figurative desk lamp — is a sign you need new roles and goals.
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Most of the people who cautioned me against getting the procedure would end the conversation with a patronizing, figurative pat on the head.
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Porsche's new Cayenne E-Hybrid sees farther down the road than most cars, and not in the figurative "electric is the future" sense.
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If you take out your figurative magnifying glass, there's plenty of expensive-looking pieces in the mix — and it's all in the details.
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The tightly focused show traces her career from early abstractions to the body-based and psychological figurative work she is best known for.
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Her compositions are more inventive and her models more fluid; her works offer more drama and pathos than figurative verisimilitude usually allows for.
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They were the fashionable branded kings/queens in a mostly black school, with keys to figurative Bentleys of social, sexual, and material wealth.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads VENICE — Luc Tuymans is a figurative painter who is deeply suspicious about the power of visual representations.
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There's no doubt this year's Democratic primary for governor of New Jersey is rigged, in a figurative sense, in favor of Phil Murphy.
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In Douala, Cameroon, it was my small container of mini Altoids, swiped from my daughter's Christmas stocking, that set off figurative alarm bells.
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Now 51, and a recent recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant," Ms. Eisenman is one of the leading figurative painters of her generation.
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A similar ire fueled a series of fires, both literal and figurative, that led to the birth of the U.S. 240 years ago.
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But "Sexting" is really a light, witty, intermittently philosophical look at a genre of amateur photography that can't help infiltrating other figurative art.
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In his new home, Delaney pivoted to colorful abstractionism in his work, a clear departure from the figurative expressionism he was known for.
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Mr. Mac devoted an entire hour, 1846 to 1856, to a figurative, four-round battle for the title of Father of American Song.
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If the figurative form and the all-over field feel like historical choices, DiBenedetto's fusion of them feels fresh and unexpected, even startling.
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But anticipating his first try at the Derby, Keith intends to enjoy the figurative ride while his younger brother enjoys the actual one.
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The yellow background has a small number of triangles outlined on it; the feeling is at once old and new, abstract and figurative.
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Ambrose goes digging, and as more and more skeletons (literal and figurative) start turning up, the story begins to morph into something bigger.
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In the case of these works by Matisse and Louis, figurative elements were instrumental in determining which way the paintings should be hung.
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I wonder if this is why the recent retrospective of figurative painter Nicole Eisenman at the New Museum reverberated for so many people.
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After starting out as a figurative artist, Frank Bowling began pouring paint in 210; he has always been the figure who doesn't fit.
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To be clear, this is different from the upcoming CubeRover project and others that are floating around in Astrobotic and Whittaker's figurative orbits.
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Further into the exhibit, artist Jim Campbell, trained as an electronic engineer, makes light installations that are at once figurative and tantalizingly abstract.
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At Casey Kaplan Jonathan Gardner continues to cultivate his stylized figurative, still life and landscape painting, in beautiful colors and multiple spatial shifts.
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Dumas, Rauch, and Yuskavage are all much-lauded (and collected) figurative painters, and there are several others in the exhibition of this ilk.
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The biggest names in figurative painting are here in full force: Henry Taylor, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nicole Eisenman and Michael Armitage among them.
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From 0003 to 2000, Mr. Bergé was the companion of Bernard Buffet, a once-acclaimed French figurative painter now fallen from critical favor.
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Rather than small, figurative paintings, Pour has created enormous, seemingly abstract works that are more reminiscent of abstract expressionism than traditional ukiyo-e.
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For Austin Austin, Newby has conjured a figurative gang of monochromatic faces and torsos that embellish the brand's recycled boxes, bottles and tubs.
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His initial etchings were abstract, but they soon evolved to a more figurative look that suited the events and figures he would illustrate.
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Other ghosts are figurative: Though Alkaitis goes to jail rather than dying, the specter of his crime follows his victims wherever they go.
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At the Accademia, a hefty retrospective of Philip Guston examined the influence of poetry on this Canadian-American painter's churning late figurative paintings.
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The "resistance" of the novel's title, then, is not just literal, but also figurative — the resistance of truth, nostalgia, silence and, ultimately, narratives.
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There is nothing figurative about that binary for Lopez's men, who belong to a generation that came after the one decimated by aids .
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Hockney never accepted the culture's burden of gravitas, and has stayed funny and sweet despite being a very famous British male figurative painter.
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Figurative stone carvings from Mesoamerica — several are included here — have been celebrated by modern artists for their bold stylization rather than their nuance.
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But beyond this, I would like both the figurative and the abstract form to evoke its own humanized passage from nonlife to life.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artificial intelligence has arrived in a Chelsea gallery, its traces cleverly disguised as stylized, gestural, figurative painting.
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Cunning, witty, dandyish at times, proudly kitsch at others, Ms. von Heyl's paintings scamper over any distinction between "pure" abstract and figurative painting.
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Although frozen, these futuristic, figurative forms recall the running men in "Olympiad" — they're pregnant with energy, poised to stride out of their frames.
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The artist works with multiple mediums such as painting and drawing, and considers his pieces to fall within the category of figurative expressionism.
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The sculptor's rough-hewn and loosely figurative assemblages of plaster, wire, wood, and found materials are instantly engrossing and pulse with inner life.
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Jackson announced a thorough house-cleaning (a figurative one, to accompany the actual cleaning and repair required by the damage from the inaugural reception).
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He made figurative drawing a centerpiece of his craft, part of a personal mission to insert black bodies into the westernized canon of art.
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The decor echoed the bold-colored figurative sculptures of late French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, one of the inspirations for the collection.
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Lizène cut two figurative sculptures, one from Thailand and the other from an unidentified African country, and switched the bottoms, and thus their genders.
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Obama drew a figurative line between his about-to-expire administration and the incoming Republican one that aims to destroy much of his legacy.
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Astronomers have at least two gnawing questions about the first billion years of the universe, an era steeped in literal fog and figurative mystery.
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Inside of cylindrical pedestals lie DJ Spooky's own interpretations of the Voyager Records, which co-exist alongside figurative drawings imposed on barcode-style lines.
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For those who know only Singh's figurative paintings, this exhibition of 19753 abstract works will come as a surprise in the very best sense.
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This doesn't mean they're "bad" — most are intriguing and unnerving and technically impressive — but they suggest a dearth of pathos in contemporary figurative sculpture.
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Feats of literal and figurative translation are everywhere in Weather Report, and they are of particular importance in representations of scientific data and imagery.
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Had Sargeant lived longer, Beard believes he would have joined the pantheon of early 2oth-century figurative artists, like Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer.
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Its female figure and headless male, plucked from more traditional figurative roles, entangle themselves with their oversized avian guardians, but they don't dominate them.
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Famous for his bright, flat compositions, Mr Hockney re-energised figurative painting at a time when most of his contemporaries considered it "anti-modern".
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Today's Terraform, Justin Lee's "The Story Is in the Soil," makes a new figurative leap by collapsing these two evocative fluids into one vein.
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We did know that the telekinetic, telepathic girl is back, but this seems to indicate that she'll be causing some storms, literal or figurative.
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The week started with a figurative bang, as a list of questions Robert Mueller's team have for Trump leaked to The New York Times.
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The figurative stuff is more intuitive; there are specific characters I've been drawing since I was kid that keep coming up in these ones.
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Eventually, Hambleton turned away from these minimalist figurative artworks to instead make his Beautiful Paintings, which included gigantic canvases with awe-inspiring ocean waves.
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The female body is idealized in a lot of figurative art, but in Detroit-based artist Bronwyn Lorelei's world, these ideals look radically different.
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Lisbeth is recruited by a new client (Stephen Merchant) when an attack on her home pushes her into that literal and figurative spider's web.
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It's unclear as of now if Guaidó has enough literal and figurative firepower to dislodge Maduro in the coming days, weeks, or even months.
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Eve Mosher's and Clarinda Mac Low's sprawling wall and floor painting, NYC Waterways (2018), traces literal and figurative lines of connection across the exhibition.
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Shylock, unlike nearly every other character in the play, is unable to employ figurative language, and the metaphors he attempts are few and simple.
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The American figurative painter Henry Taylor, for example, is currently the subject of a sold-out exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe.
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It invokes a word inevitably applied to Miró: "poetic," redolent of the magic, residual in us, of childhood rhymes, with or without figurative elements.
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Ms. Crosby, 33, is a Los Angeles artist of Nigerian birth who makes large-scale figurative portraits using a range of media on paper.
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He takes extraordinary pride in the fact that, during his decades-long career, he's built a reputation as the literal and figurative Boy Scout.
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Nevertheless, within today's social concerns and aesthetic preferences, I find his earlier, quirkier, semi-abstract, figurative work from the 1920s darkly brilliant and germane.
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"Buffet's oeuvre stayed consistent to his intense, linear black outlines, elongated gaunt figures, barren landscapes and an adherence to figurative painting," the gallery explains.
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It wouldn't be a Monkeys record unless Turner's vocals were acting like figurative fists, trying to start a fight with anyone who comes through.
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The image, a part of Erizku's 2015 New Flower series, explores some of the racial dynamics at play in the canon surrounding figurative representation.
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While Rosso distanced himself from the idealizing current running through figurative sculpture by depicting the impoverished, sick, and elderly, Gagnier never gets socially specific.
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CreditCreditNathanael Turner for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — When David Hockney began his career, figurative painting was considered old hat and even retrogressive.
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Hovering between abstraction and figuration, "Untitled (Seated Figures)" (1953) is the first "mosaic" painting to be figurative, marking a decisive shift in Müller's work.
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The figurative was fundamentally nostalgic; its subject matter was kitsch; it was too easily manipulated for the purposes of propaganda, both political and commercial.
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The Figurative Mondrian, however, reveals that the artist did not undergo a clearly demarcated road-to-Damascus conversion from profane realism to purified abstraction.
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She made figurative work, while working odd jobs in New York, and went to study art at the University of New Mexico, in 1946.
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Schutz's paintings, in which abstract and figurative images combine to tell enigmatic stories, sometimes carry veiled references to what's going on in the world.
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Other efforts deserving attention include the bravura abstract paintings of Carrie Moyer, among her best, and the gritty figurative ones of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer.
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The great virtue of a figurative railroad is that, when someone needs it—and someone always needs it—we don't have to build it.
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It is the first time that a real player has featured so prominently on a World Cup poster, traditionally a much more figurative space.
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James can be figurative in one painting and, in another, rub a surface with paint, make a palpable, potently suggestive smear on the surface.
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Poverty and alienation, the twin concerns of modern life, resound strongly in a rare, early example of Ram Kumar's figurative work, "Unemployed Graduates" (1956).
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The city's increasingly abundant industrialized light, starting in the mid-21891s, caused the figurative honorific of the 21s to morph into a descriptive epithet.
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Already displaying a distinct artistic voice somewhere between figurative portraiture and post-impressionism, it's a wonder that Stetson's isn't even halfway through high school.
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Both artists brought to their respective works the hybrid approach of Bay Area figuration that fused the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism with figurative imagery.
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Its title, however, is "Painter," and suddenly what could have been read as an abstracted industrial landscape is now imbued with a figurative dimension.
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Even in terms of subject matter, I have to be careful about how many things involve a plant, a vase, or a figurative woman.
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I was long familiar with Perez's portraits, in which the graphic, bruised strokes of his subjects' expressions render them sharp, more abstract than figurative.
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The evening's last rose goes to Taylor, leaving Sarah (who I was sure would last longer!) and Astrid out in the literal and figurative cold.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Louis Fratino is a young figurative oil painter who likes to draw, usually in ink, crayon, and oil stick.
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Some of the pieces are quite figurative, easily identified as molded off Kalman's palate, or the space between her fingers in a loosely clenched fist.
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The non-figurative works by Keserü Ilona, Bak, Maurer or, István Nádler and János Megyik, among many others, defied the official disapproval of abstract art.
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By making work that can be read as either abstract or figurative, she invites viewers to become self-reflective and consider the dynamics of relationships.
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They were my biggest jump into three-dimensional objects, which made me realize that I'm interested in characters, as opposed to being a figurative painter.
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Twenty minutes later, the group would hit the first in a series of literal and figurative roadblocks that would stymie their work throughout the day.
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Mr Yeo, Mr Godbold, Mr Roberts and Mr Dant all opted for figurative works (see below), but Ms Parker is unlikely to do the same.
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The five artists in Thomas Erben are figurative painters with Joan Brown (1938–1990) and the recently deceased Charles Garabedian (1923–2016) the presiding spirits.
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LH: Even though the figurative elements stem mostly from my body and my partner's body' I break them down into abstract' repetitive' and symmetrical forms.
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You can also feel in Ms. Hahn's work the impact of recent figurative painters such as Sue Williams, Lisa Yuskavage, Judith Linhares and Dana Schutz.
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It is figurative, in that it is about the mortification of intimate relationships and the implacable advance of control one person can exert over another.
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Or look at Jackson Pollock's post-drip, quasi-figurative "Portrait and a Dream" (1953), an embodiment of the artist's difficult situation, both formally and personally.
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She throws open her arms in a figurative embrace of a giant cracker (pictured) built by the firm in Baytown, a gritty part of Houston.
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PAINTINGS NEW YORK at Hauser & Wirth, an excavation of the figurative and abstract works executed by the pioneering performance artist before he turned to Happenings.
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And again, this idea that pops up of Dada situating itself as anti-tradition, anti-figurative art, anti-received wisdom of what art should be.
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He's now telling me why he no longer cares about painters like Max Beckmann, and why he thinks figurative painting is fundamentally incapable of expression.
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Nevertheless, one aspiring avian mascot was more than willing to follow his (figurative) nose to the fruity taste that shows, as the footage below demonstrates.
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Even during the rise of abstraction, Nageshkar's art was more figurative, marked by themes of suffering and grief, often embodied by the figure of Christ.
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While we put the figurative closed sign on Disrupt NY just a few weeks ago, it's never too early to start thinking about what's next.
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Figurative adolescence, of course — having formed ten years ago just out of high school, by now these women are old pros who've mastered their craft.
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In a background embroidered by fuzzy caterpillars of 1980s jewels tones, the sole figurative element is a PBR sign, lit up above her right shoulder.
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Her sculptural process combines fibrous materials around light metal structures, producing abstract figurative forms with universal elements of androgyny, armor, flight, seduction, myth, and mystery.
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Everyone knows that first world, privileged kids today are cushioned, shielded, protected from the literal and figurative bumps and bruises of the real-world playground.
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Even Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech—powerful, compelling, and full of humanity and raw emotion—is still completely literal, devoid of figurative language.
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That is not only because Mr. Marshall's beautiful and biting figurative paintings have been picturing black life in America with such aplomb for so long.
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"Ray Donovan" is taking a figurative plunge into the unknown in its next season, after having depicted a literal one in its fifth-season finale.
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Northerners know to fear black ice, but its deadly nature is not widely understood by people from more temperate regions, and figurative language doesn't help.
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Billy is involved in many a violent act, but "exaggeration, outrage and garish lies" embroider his exploits until he becomes a literal and figurative target.
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If Coleman's work gives found objects a figurative presence in the main gallery, Gardner's paintings perhaps capture the imagery of their dreams and collective memory.
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This metaphorical stripping, destruction, and then patching back together provides an unconventional portrait of a collective identity, whilst simultaneously revealing its literal and figurative fragility.
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Sometimes compositions are resolved with a strong figurative element like a green mushroom or, in the case of "July," what looks like a distorted lectern.
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Among his most moving subjects are pregnant women, who he viewed as paradoxical: harbingers of hope, they also bear the figurative brunt of society's ills.
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My work is a mix of figurative, graffiti, humor, and some sort of self-image that I have of myself from dreams or sketching ideas.
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That always adds some figurative weight to the situation — as if one of the players is going to get cuffed and arrested on the field.
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Alongside Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Konrad Lueg and other students at the exuberant Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he began painting deadpan figurative canvases in a sapped grisaille.
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Dom Prokop Diviš, a Czech polymath born on this day in 1698, enjoyed shocking people in both the literal and figurative sense of the word.
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What might have been had Hinkie not drafted Noel and Okafor — both of whom were traded for figurative pennies on the dollar — is mind-boggling.
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Throughout the day-long program this Saturday, four separate talks featuring a wide range of speakers will focus on the city's literal and figurative underground.
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Most painters responded by getting weirder, more abstract, more experimental; representational figurative art was anachronistic, inert, crusty — a form of vanity exclusive to the rich.
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Unlike his contemporaries, Marc Chagall was not as interested in completely destroying the figurative tradition of painting, but he certainly adored the country's new regime.
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Drawing on her experience of "intertwined languages" and the postwar Korean diaspora, Yoon savors homonyms ("apple is apology") and uncovers figurative language buried in idioms.
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When he has spare time, he works on his own figurative sculptures, which he will exhibit in a solo show in London later this year.
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His totally abstract works are as finely crafted as traditional figurative sculptures, but to very different effect, and his materials are transformational rather than inherent.
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Instead, "Lineup" has a deflating coda of contemporary figurative paintings that incidentally include stripes, such as a waxy portrait by the drainingly cynical Chloe Wise.
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We divide a piece of paper into six sections we call "drawers" or "cubbies": common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, figurative language and literal language.
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As part of T Presents, our spotlight on 15 new creative talents, we profiled Theresa Chromati, whose paintings walk the line between figurative and abstract.
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I remember very well a very big retrospective in my hometown of Antonio Berni, a great Argentine artist related to the figurative new realism movement.
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Celebrities are thought to be covered in figurative stardust, but it turns out there is a sprinkling of the real stuff around all of us.
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He has often tweeted about how he thinks short sellers are manipulating the stock price and he has vowed to "burn" them with figurative flamethrowers.
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The smog enveloping Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose and other cities is literal and figurative: There has been little clarity about how best to protect ourselves.
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The smaller photographs contain some figurative semblance of the original snapshots; a woman gazing into an unknown abyss, an anonymous individual crouched on their stomach.
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In this light, we may be more critical of perceived shortcomings, like some figurative representations and automatic drawings and texts that appear clunky and awkward.
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And by the evidence presented here, Guston's contemporaries, who were scandalized by the figurative funkiness of his final decade, should have known what was coming.
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"Femme dans un fauteuil", painted by French cubist artist Leger in 1913, is one of a group of five figurative works featuring a seated woman.
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Among the other winners: Alex Bradley Cohen's charming figurative paintings at Nicelle Beauchene (1.00), Marley Freeman's luminous small abstractions at Parker (2.02), Farah Al Qasimi's complex and beguiling photographs of life in the United Arab Emirates at Helena Anrather (4.02), Jenna Westra's cerebrally suggestive black and white photographs at Hassla (4.16), and Graham Anderson's sepia-toned retro-futurist figurative painting at Klaus von Nichtssagend (2.05).
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While there was nothing particularly revelatory about the group of Guston's pictures, all done in his late figurative style, the selection stopped me in my tracks.
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He was a true artist's artist, always dedicated to his singular vision; he was a figurative painter when it was trendy and especially when it wasn't.
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So from 2011 to 2015, the twins took a break from acting to attend NYU, where Sprouse studied video-game design, creative writing and figurative painting.
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The novel experiment forced Garman to wear earplugs for days on end, left him with several headaches, and transformed some of his employees into figurative zombies.
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He has a remarkable gift for loose, raw, figurative painting, often infused with macabre humour and arresting colour, which straightaway imprints itself upon the viewer's imagination.
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She felt limited by her connection with the Bay Area Figurative Movement however, and in 213 she withdrew to her studio to reexamine her artistic path.
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Where Beauclair's physics-inspired drawings are open-ended due to their simplicity, New Jersey cartoonist Michael Olivo's figurative, vaguely science-fiction comics are nearly as opaque.
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This gorgeous, three-dimensional brass puzzle, though, has enough literal and figurative heft to be a grown-up desk accessory as well as an engaging plaything.
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The emotional paintings of Jennifer Packer mean to challenge the male gaze and reject the politics of perception that traditionally define classical representation in figurative painiting.
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The visibility of trans women in public spaces is of course bigger than Essence Fest and can apply to all black spaces, both literal and figurative.
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She does not make vessels or pile one thing atop another (echoing Constantin Brancusi), nor does she make figurative sculptures or use readymades in her work.
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Casteel's paintings in the exhibition blend aspects of landscape and figurative painting to render the variously hued black men who line 125th St. during the day.
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But when Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nedrum gave a speech in advance of his solo show in Oslo back in 1998, he effectively redefined the term.
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Even over the weekend, after McCain's second (more figurative) thumbs down leadership aides said McConnell was "all in" as they tried to find a path forward.
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On either side of this figurative painting is surge (social cataracts) (2019), 11 unstretched, abstract canvases — the type of work for which Murillo is best known.
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Outterbridge's hulking iron and wood piece "Vertical" resembles a piece of rusting cargo ship, while Washington's "Love Thy Neighbor" takes on a more figurative, otherworldly form.
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A quirk of South Africa's geography is that it makes starkly, physically real the kinds of cleavages that, in other countries, tend to be more figurative.
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Clearly, to his eye, Hartigan's dynamically brushed images, which applied the lessons of abstraction to figurative ends, were not a retreat but a new way forward.
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Because they rarely leave Miami, my parents took the literal signs in support of Mr. Rubio as a figurative one that he would win the campaign.
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Moreover, film seemed to have taken over the territory of myth that was once the particular province of opera, just as photography had challenged figurative painting.
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The error was widely recognized by the eighteenth century, but the rule of chaste monochrome persisted well into modern times, even as modernism suppressed figurative imagery.
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Reading what Bacon says about the game of painting in the face of film and photography helped me navigate a way to make figurative painting today.
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Tyrese believes there was a death in the courtroom Thursday ... and a figurative funeral was held for all the accusations about him being a bad dad.
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The final gallery has another excellent generational mix, this time of figurative sculpture by Rodin, Medardo Rosso, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Warren and Alina Szapocznikow.
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And on the figurative third hand, you have Green Bay's offense coming out of their shell for the first time in months against Washington last week.
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And those concerned about the direction of the company worry that it's diverting all its figurative eggs into the iPhone basket to fuel revenue and profit.
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It's Space Halloween in Heat Signature, which means accidentally shooting yourself out an airlock in will leave you boned in both a figurative and literal sense.
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The Villa is an actual home for 27 sex-positive community members and a figurative one for anyone wanting to learn more about sex and sexuality.
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"This notable discovery predates the earliest previously known abstract and figurative drawings by at least 30,000 years," Henshilwood and his co-authors note in the paper.
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What's more, The Drew has gone beyond being a figurative escape; most notably, it served as an actual safe haven during the L.A. Riots of 1992.
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The direct cause-and-effect relationship "toxic" implies is clearest in cases when metaphorical toxicity manages to breach the barrier between the figurative and the real.
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He supported various independent artistic experiments but leaned towards the productions with a social message; therefore figurative art, as well as theater and cinema were popular.
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A single self-portrait is an oddity — a titillating peek into an artist's private life or self-conception, but otherwise no different from other figurative paintings.
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"Peter Doig is one of the most important figurative painters of our time," said Sheena Wagstaff, the Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Most pieces were pre-1999 figurative styles by Judith Lieber, along with a few by Kathrine Baumann, a designer with no significant track record at auction.
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This same friend, played by Moustafa Fahs, gives his dead body a metaphorical washing then a figurative, modern-dance-y cleansing in that black, alternative space.
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If that's the case, then ancient figurative art may yet turn up in other places where early humans reached dense populations, including Africa, Asia or Australia.
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Upcoming shows include solo exhibitions of figurative painting by King Saladeen and work by Ron English as well as a sound installation curated by Mr. Bey.
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If Farid's bloody search for meaning in Islam is a figurative ascent to heaven, then there's something hellish about Ramon's pursuit of the man on fire.
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With figurative painting ascendant, exhibitions of the great German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950), are always inspiring; especially those that include rarely exhibited or reproduced works.
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Berry dons a figurative detective's cap and literal mutton chops in this Victorian spoof, in which he plays a foul-mouthed inspector in 19th-century London.
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He gathered his family and friends around him and refused to commit to a single figurative style or to use photographic images in a formulaic way.
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It is the collaborative transmission, or so I like to think, that results when a geographical landscape moves through or commingles with a figurative, human one.
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And though it is nominally a box, it is hardly square in the figurative sense, which cannot be said of this affable show as a whole.
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No doubt the flat, expansive colors of Robert Mangold's abstractions, or the backgrounds of Alex Katz's figurative works, have accustomed us to such fields of color.
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But he returned to more figurative work after the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death in Sanford, Fla.
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After a global wave of figurative painting that poked, prodded and examined the human body from every perspective, the art world is now overrun with critters.
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Making my way through the exhibit, I was surprised by the constant movement: from figurative to abstract, from what appeared to be one idea to another.
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It helps that Anthony's pal, Chris Paul, has joined the James Harden-led Rockets, while the Knicks are attaching figurative training wheels to their foreseeable future.
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With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised.
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Smith bakes with an urgency that defies rational explanation, leading to pieces that are sometimes beautiful, often deeply weird, occasionally figurative, and just as often not.
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The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century is Timothy Hyman's brilliant follow up to his essential monographs on Pierre Bonnard and Sienese Painting.
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"In Casa Vicens, Gaudí recreated the figurative worlds that were fashionable at the time, but in a highly personal way," the project's organizers said in a statement.
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Experts in the U.K. also found the world's oldest figurative tattoos on two ancient Egyptian mummies recently, one of which is the oldest tattooed female ever discovered.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 26, an exhibition composed entirely of paintings by women that attempts to categorize Expressionism in new terms.
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The court said the mark was not a pattern but an "ordinary figurative mark" and it was not relevant to take into account specific uses involving colors.
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However, for those who know only Singh's figurative paintings, often in bright colors, the exhibition at Talwar will come as a surprise in the very best sense.
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"Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake: social, educational and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns."
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LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on the upper arms of two ancient Egyptian mummies, the British Museum said on Thursday.
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"Rumors" from 2005 is a literal and figurative plea for people to leave Lohan alone and let her goddamn dance without the paparazzi getting in her face.
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To be clear, most of the fight scenes in the movie are a cinematic feat that flex director Ryan Coogler's figurative muscles and his actors' actual muscles.
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It's estimated to be 73,000 years old, predating previously known abstract and figurative drawings by humans from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia by at least 30,000 years.
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The figurative meaning of the Congolese artist's words resonates: poor planning has led to instability, financial ruin and crises of all kinds in countries around the world.
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I think both of these films function as essays, because they explore bigger ideas than their ostensible subject (whether that subject is literal rats or figurative ones).
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In a nod to the figurative tradition, most involve a distinct base of some kind — though one work, titled "stack" (2015), extends continuously from floor to ceiling.
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The court said the mark was not a pattern but an "ordinary figurative mark" and it was not relevant to take into account specific uses involving colours.
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Yet, despite being set in a world populated by literal (like horses) and figurative (like Hollywood agents) animals, Bojack Horseman's finale ended on a devastatingly human note.
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The feeling behind the composing process was very figurative: through it, we aim to lead the listener into the abyss—if they can handle it, of course.
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Figurative titles like "Painter" turn personal, as in the 1960 "Garden of M," a tête-à-tête between a round black shape and a smaller red one.
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However, this collection of early figurative portraits, including one heavy, bug-eyed self-portrait in ink, feel derivative and uninspired compared to the rest of the show.
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The first embraces the important figurative value of seizing the base from which ISIS launched so many of its attacks and filmed many of its propaganda videos.
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Except for a mostly gray, black and white self-portrait by Alex Katz and a small, steely study by Philip Guston, figurative painting is all but absent.
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In the 1990s, the London art world lurched away from figurative painting and set off in pursuit of the conceptual larkiness of the Young British Artists group.
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Anyway, some of these theme entries are literal diamonds, some are figurative and some of them are people, but not in a Soylent Green kind of way.
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That's a magic that the Los Angeles artist Ray, now sixty-five years old, brings to figurative sculpture: investing deadpan realism with an aura of timeless form.
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It includes "Entr'acte," the avant-garde film he made in 21970 with René Clair, and his contentious series of figurative paintings from the '280s, '21927s and '230s.
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Photograph by Gillian Laub for The New Yorker From the time he graduated from Cooper Union, Katz had known that he wanted to be a figurative painter.
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As you nurse your 43th of July hangover—either literal or figurative—here's a timely speculation about borders and technology to put all that patriotism in perspective.
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In many places, In Order Words is not so much a direct investigation of language, but a sampling of figurative means by which to talk about language.
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The year of the revolution, another future member of Iran's artistic diaspora was born in Tehran: Amir H. Fallah, a figurative painter now based in Los Angeles.
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Over the years, Ms. Sherald's figurative painting has evolved into a stylized realism — a gray skin palette punctuated by colorful pieces of clothing on a flat plane.
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Their features blend in because "figurative cogency is not a priority of my work," said Ilya, who is 28 and moved to New York 18 months ago.
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Her art is "hieroglyphic in character, combining a cast of figurative characters from Amazonians to fertility goddesses," Ms. Stella-Sawicka said, and explores female sexuality and suffering.
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In-between the figurative growing pains of being young but not young enough and older but not old at all, having a genuine crush was so welcoming.
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There are leaps, spins, and also this super good crouch spin thing, which ends the routine and sets off a million figurative explosions all around the venue.
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It surveys decades of art making, from the exuberant jewelry for which she is best known to the figurative sculpture to which she is now most committed.
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And figurative art almost as old has been found in Europe, demonstrating that humans around the world made the transition independently, and at roughly the same time.
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But the 80-year-old, Yorkshire-born artist David Hockney has been bringing a cheerfully mercenary élan to figurative painting for the better part of six decades.
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Since the 245,2000-year-old flowstone covers the banteng image, the artwork must be older than that — and thus the oldest known figurative art on the planet.
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In Harmattan Tales Ghana she applies thread, lace, and beads to the textiles, enhancing their materiality, adding figurative dimension, and grounding the images in culture and place.
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" Bottom left: "I like objects with a figurative aspect, like this galvanized brass cube by John Dickinson, which resembles a catering table with a floor-length cloth.
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The heads presage a self-portrait print from 1990, displayed nearby, as well as the soft fabric figurative sculptures that Bourgeois took up in the late '90s.
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"In the age of conceptual art, he was a peripheral figure, by his own admission: A figurative painter when figuration was considered old hat," Ms. Graustark said.
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Thanks to tuition fees (now hovering at around $23,22013 a year), the academy muddled along, but its expertise was figurative art, which had fallen out of fashion.
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It's also aesthetically provocative: ''Man,'' a distillation of figurative imagery, vaguely recalls a Francis Bacon portrait; ''Rainbow'' — a blend of cosmic-like rainbows — a Dali-esque dreamscape.
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A thoughtful look at the period from 1945 to 1963 in American painting is still necessary, with special attention to the figurative artists working during these years.
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But the deeper beguilement is how she manages to create the effect of wholly realized figures while simultaneously confounding so many of our assumptions about the figurative.
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While this myth has evolved over the years, it continues to be the source of literal and figurative imagination depicting freedom, new futures and returning to Africa.
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Eventually, she broke her own boundary and started migrating the figurative panel into the abstract one, all the while showing influences of abstraction in the realist panel.
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Figurative artists know the importance of learning "the rules" before they break them, which is precisely the opportunity this book intends to offer its most ambitious readers.
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Cafe X—though actually a kiosk, not a cafe in the traditional sense—opened its figurative doors this past Monday, with a sister location in Hong Kong.
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Jane Mount: I used to paint large figurative pieces that no one ever wanted to buy, but I lost my studio space because they sold the building.
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But once artisans began working with molds — a faster technique that also allowed for mass production — they could introduce all kinds of figurative elements and ornate decorations.
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Timothy Hyman's The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century (2016) is published by Thames & Hudson and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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Figurative allusions are scarce in this show (and I'm not one to go around looking for them); more common are landscape references, inadvertent though they may be.
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ST. LOUIS — In the entrance gallery of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation are a series of figurative painting, sculpture, and a photographic print all staring at each other.
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