figurative artist

collocation in English

meaningsoffigurativeandartist

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figurative
adjective
uk
/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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artist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɑː.tɪst/us
/ˈɑːr.t̬ɪst/
someone who paints, draws, or ...
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(Definition offigurativeandartistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffigurative artist

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The same also applies more or less to a musical work, but afigurativeartistproduces one copy only.
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Kiff was afigurativeartistat a time when abstract art held sway.
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Michonze is primarily known as a landscape andfigurativeartist.
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The artist began his career as afigurativeartist.
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She is afigurativeartist.
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The use of the term kitsch shows no respect to the skills traditional andfigurativeartistneed to have and to the eternal values of beauty they believe in.
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Figurative artists benefited from the political situation precisely because they were able to capitalise on their past artistic status.
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And a figurative artist's idea has one specific characteristic: the idea cannot be cloned, to use the latest jargon.
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His work includes landscape, still-life and the human figure, an unusual triumvirate of genres for contemporary figurative artists.
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It was an intellectual elite which included figurative artists, musicians, philosophers and writers.
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