It reminds one that the narrative as well as painterly possibilities of traditional, figurative representation are still far from exhausted.

"It is a figurative and literal representation of their isolation," he said.

His works in the 1980s showed a tendency towards figurative representations, and dealt with problems of identity.

It also explains why these types of bracelet do not appear in written sources, nor the figurative representations of the time.

Stylistically, his work at this time became much more abstract, abandoning figurative representation in favor of symbolic allusions.

In fact, the relief is one of only two existing large, figurative representations from the Old Babylonian period.

The second half of the twentieth century saw a general movement back towards figurative representation.

Sometimes the themes are dictated, sometimes he is free to choose, in which case Plum decided between figurative or symbolical representations.

This lack of figurative representation is known as aniconism and was not maintained in later Pre-Romanesque churches.

Something similar happens in the human images group of works in which figurative representation becomes an experimental sphere.