figurative art

collocation in English

meaningsoffigurativeandart

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figurative
adjective
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/ˈfɪɡ.ər.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.ə.tɪv/
(of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a ...
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art
noun
uk
/ɑːt/us
/ɑːrt/
the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that ...
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(Definition offigurativeandartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They are modern art in the sense that he broke with the artistic conventions of the past, but they remainedfigurativeartwith a narrative.
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He specialized infigurativeartsuch as sculpted portraits, sculpting heads and busts.
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The primary goal of the museum is to educate the public about the historical evolution and impotrtance offigurativeart.
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He began his career creatingfigurativeartinfluenced by expressionism.
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Figurativeartand total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive.
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He revived an interest infigurativeart, at first experimenting with still-abstracted forms that relied on color for their impact, dynamics and warmth.
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Abstract beauty is the heart of the beauty offigurativeart.
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Painting the figure at a time whenfigurativeartwas largely ignored, he is widely recognised as an important 20th-century artist.
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It is in afigurativeart-deco architectural style.
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Elements of behavioral modernity include finely-made tools, fishing, long-distance sharing or exchange among groups, self-ornamentation,figurativeart, games, music, cooking and burial.
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However, his real passion wasfigurativeartand painting female nudes in particular.
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In implicit evaluation, people reacted more positively to thefigurativeart, where they could at least make out the shapes.
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At the beginning of the 1970s he returned tofigurativeart.
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It also enabled exchanging of ideas onfigurativeartbetween members.
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It focuses especially on exhibitions offigurativeartin regional museums.
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Holtz has experimented in the abstract, but then reverted to representational andfigurativeartto which he devoted himself exclusively.
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The movement is generally depicted infigurativeartworks created in a natural yet highly objective style, without many interpretations of former movements.
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Together with religion and other cultural universals of contemporary human societies, the emergence offigurativeartis a necessary attribute of full behavioral modernity.
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In this article he describes the difference between thefigurativearthe was making and the more fashionable abstract art or representational art.
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