For much of the twentieth century it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

Innovators in the visual arts and lithographic process — such as French printing firm Rouchon in the 1840s, Joseph Morse of New York in the 1850s, Frederick Walker of England in the 1870s, and Jules Chéret of France in the 1870s — developed an illustrative style that went beyond tonal, representational art to figurative imagery with sections of bright, flat colors.

Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form.

When he harangued his people from the pulpit, Paul affected the figurative style and the theatrical gestures of an Asiatic sophist, while the cathedral resounded with the loudest and most extravagant acclamations in the praise of his divine eloquence.

Islam took over much of the traditional glass-producing territory of Sassanian and Ancient Roman glass, and since figurative decoration played a small part in pre-Islamic glass, the change in style is not abrupt, except that the whole area initially formed a political whole, and, for example, Persian innovations were now almost immediately taken up in Egypt.

His work of this period is marked by an expressive figurative style used in depictions of the people, buildings, tools and machinery characteristic of farm life.

Whether because his faith in the machine age had been shattered by his experiences as a private soldier in the trenches or because of the pervasive retrogressive attitude towards modernism in Britain Bomberg moved to a more figurative style in the 1920s and his work became increasingly dominated by portraits and landscapes drawn from nature.

Her early work was figurative with a semi-impressionist style.

This was more a loose collection of individual artists who knew each other, some intimately, and were working in London at the same time in the figurative style ( but during the boom years of abstract painting ).

His works feature a figurative style, called by some " Boterismo ", which gives them an unmistakable identity.

After Nicholson's first exhibition of figurative works in London in 1922, his work began to be influenced by Synthetic Cubism, and later by the primitive style of Rousseau.

There are three major regional styles: the geometric style found in Central Australia, Tasmania, the Kimberley and Victoria known for its concentric circles, arcs and dots ; the simple figurative style found in Queensland and the complex figurative style found in Arnhem Land which includes X-Ray art.

His sculpture was in the figurative Beaux-Arts style, with its realism, and detailed modeling.

The classical Arabic poetry and the text of the Qur ' an are two resources which can be used as foundational reference in ascertaining the meaning and signification of the remaining literal and figurative diction of the Qur ' an and its style of expression.

Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque characteristically, it has rich wall paintings and figurative stone carving but the general architectural style of the buildings is restrained.

He painted in an abstract figurative style that borders on abstract expressionism.

In Munich, Chase employed his rapidly burgeoning talent most often in figurative works that he painted in the loosely-brushed style popular with his instructors.

The group have no common style or media but there is a bias towards figurative painting.

The examination of the carvings has been carried out to compare the style and also to interpret the figurative and historical significance.

The earliest 8th or 9th century Irish crosses had only ornament, including interlace and round bosses, but from the 9th and 10th century, figurative images appear, sometimes just a figure of Christ crucified in the centre, but in the largest 10th century examples large numbers of figures over much of the surface.

After World War II, figurative expressionism influenced worldwide a large number of artists and styles.

As Peter Carels notes, " The fulcrum of his wit in a large number of the tales is his literal interpretation of figurative language.

Vera Mukhina designed the large figurative sculpture on the Soviet pavilion for the exhibition, whose architect was Boris Iofan.

The form of the island occasionally becomes more figurative than the semi-abstract representations of Bartolomeo de Pareto, Benincasa and others: Bianco, for instance, shifts its orientation to northwest-southeast, transmutes generic bays into river mouths ( including a large one on the northeastern coast ), and elongates a southern tail into a cape with a small cluster of islets offshore.

The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing ( vague linear spots and / or figurative outline ) can first be seen in the early 20th century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

He began to make large, gestural paintings which combined figurative and abstract imagery.

Some featured large figurative sculpture of considerable quality, as on the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross ( both probably around 800 ).

In fact, the relief is one of only two existing large, figurative representations from the Old Babylonian period.

The term occurs 133 times in the Rigveda, referring to oceans ( real, mythical or figurative ) or large bodies of water as well as to large Soma vessels, e. g. RV 6. 69. 6 ( trans.

The work ranged across the years, from densely worked and tightly composed figurative images of northwest landscape to large, sweeping brushstrokes with flowing, symbolic and iconographic forms.

It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

This Jewish rabbinical concept of a " higher Gan Eden " is opposed by the Hebrew terms Gehinnom and Sheol, figurative names for the place of spiritual purification for the wicked dead in Judaism, a place envisioned as being at the greatest possible distance from " heaven ".

However, while the indefinite article ein is omitted when speaking of an individual's profession or residence, it is still necessary when speaking in a figurative sense as Kennedy did.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

A kenning ( ; derived from Old Norse ) is a type of literary trope, specifically circumlocution, in the form of a compound ( usually two words, often hyphenated ) that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

Because Islam is a religion that focuses very heavily on learning the central text of the Qur ' an, and because Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts.

There is no evidence he was ever awarded a doctorate — the title Doctor Mirabilis was posthumous and figurative.

In figurative representations, the body of the serpent is represented as passing behind Ophiuchus between μ Ser in Serpens Caput and ν Ser in Serpens Cauda.

Those who hold that Jesus ' words, " This is my body ", " This is my blood ", were not metaphorical claim that there is a marked contrast between metaphorical figurative expressions, which of their nature have a symbolic meaning, and what Jesus said about concrete things such as the bread and wine.

In this sense, much of the subtlety of poetry, metaphor, figurative language, innuendo and other complex, indirect communicative behaviors is beyond the current scope and goals of the UNL.

While it is common to speak of shit as existing in a pile, a load, a hunk and other quantities and configurations, such expressions flourish most strongly in the figurative.

According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.

Second, based on cognitive linguistics ' analysis of figurative language, he argues that the reasoning we use for such abstract topics as warfare, economics, or morality is somehow rooted in the reasoning we use for such mundane topics as spatial relationships.

An idiom (, " special property ", f., " special feature, special phrasing ", f., " one ’ s own ") is an expression consisting of a combination of words that has a figurative meaning.

The figurative meaning is comprehended in regard to a common use of the expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

On the exterior, the verticality is emphasised in a major way by the towers and spires and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical buttresses, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which often pass through several storeys of the building, by long narrow windows, vertical mouldings around doors and figurative sculpture which emphasises the vertical and is often attenuated.