figurative
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Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings combine Eurocentric artistic traditions with African diasporic cosmologies as a way to course-correct the historical erasure of Black images from classical narratives.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
"The most important centre of Islamic civilisation in the 15th century endorsed figurative art," he added.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Although there are no figurative features at all, they appear to be communing among themselves and with you.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
Of greater success are her more saturated works that crank up the figurative elements while also embracing more abstract settings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing figurative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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