When speech or writing is not literal, it is figurative, like when you say you have a ton of homework. You don't really have 2000 pounds of homework, do you? Also, when art depicts a figure from life it is figurative, like a figurative drawing of a dancer.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Adjective
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
Adjective S.
consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
a.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical;
representative.
a.
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not
literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
a.
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a
highly figurative description.
a.
Relating to the representation of form or figure by
drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
Figurative
This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.2.
They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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