Sentences with phrase «figurative motifs into»

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Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

The jugs are etched with figurative motifs and represent the five rivers of the underworld, which according to Greek mythology, possess a distinct power to help lead those into the afterlife.