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/fˈɪɡjʊɹəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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consisting of or forming human or animal figures
a figural design
the figurative art of the humanistic tradition
How To Use figural In A Sentence
- a figural design
- One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture.
- Using wire and polyurethane, her works may take the form of a shadow box, such as ‘Permeance’, or as a figural sculpture, such as ‘Goodbye Goddess’.
- This painting has both a landscape and figural feel, as a faint green underpainting pokes tenuously (like grass) through a peach-colored second ground that has the tactility of flesh.
- Current models of associative learning explain nonlinear discrimination by assuming that people store stimulus information configural.
- In this case, internal evidence indicates that the writing, ornament, and figural paintings were all executed by a single hand.
- This is the central figural medallion, or emblema, of a geometrically patterned floor, executed in minute tesserae of subtly graduated tones, that depicts a dog seated next to an overturned golden vessel.
- These features are also shared with marginal sculptures of predominantly secular subject matter, such as several quatrefoils from the west portals of Amiens Cathedral and figural corbels from Noyon.
- The distinction made here is a broad one between two different categories of representation, the aniconic and the figural.
- These features are also shared with marginal sculptures of predominantly secular subject matter, such as several quatrefoils from the west portals of Amiens Cathedral and figural corbels from Noyon.