figurative
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And in a figurative sense, the hard-luck Southerners in these bawling, impish stories all have the feeling that the world is laughing at their names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
"These people are not dead," Italian figurative painter Amedeo Modigliani once said of the Fayum portraits.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Renoir is celebrated for his light-dappled canvases capturing 19th-century European leisure, high society and timeless figurative studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She was inviting us into her figurative and literal home — the tour bus she resided in for over a decade, with an overzealous guide to boot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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