She went to several local art schools where she worked in mostly figurative mode.

Operating under several different pseudonyms over the following years, he decided to step into a more figurative and conceptual mode of art.

Mr. Sokol works in a variety of figurative and abstract modes and in many mediums, with pleasing color, composition and line the hallmarks of his style.

His father, Fred Klein, a Dutch-Indonesian, worked in a figurative mode, and his mother, Marie Raymond, a Frenchwoman, was a successful School of Paris abstractionist.

As a painter and draftsman, there's not much he hasn't put his hand to, from portraits and panoramas on canvas to photocollage to designs for the stage and opera, always wedded to the figurative mode.

He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and acted occasionally in films.

Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal.

Starting with minimal, geometric imagery, he has worked his way to a figurative mode, never abandoning his rich surfaces.

Achelous and Hercules also served as Benton's assertion of the figurative mode in contrast to the abstract expressionism of his former student Jackson Pollock.

His progress from a fin-de-siecle figurative mode influenced by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso to his mature style is well documented and widely written about, even if spelled out here in unusual detail.