Sentences with phrase «figurative expressions for»

Generally, teachers can use some help with lesson plans for teaching figurative language, and this page should provide teachers with useful background knowledge, figurative expressions for examples, and exercises for practicing figurative language.

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Nor are the figurative modes of expression simply to be explained as didactic devices designed to assist a primitive hearer's comprehension, for even to him much could have been differently said without prejudice to his understanding.

We have included both the abstract planer painting and the figurative - expressive - painterly expression as key exponents for our era's pictorial art.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

The exhibition highlights the interblending of traditional and figurative abstraction as the foundation for more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity, engendering a new visual pronoun.

The Chicago Imagists, the loose group of figurative artists that included Nilsson and Nutt, «admired these «undiscovered» artists for the aesthetic qualities of their work and, above all, as role models for their independent pursuit of an inwardly - driven creative expression», Cooke says.

Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other forms of figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»