A parable is a figurative image with a single message (sometimes mistaken for an analogy, in which each element has a metaphoric meaning).

To'o was a man-made object, for example a figure made of wood or stone, that presented a figurative image of the god.

- and yet from archaeology it is clear that the use of quite complex figurative Christian images was widespread by that date.

The charcoal establishes the basic structure of each figurative image; her subjects are mostly two or three females that have a vague resemblance to the artist.

He paints bold figurative images in a simple, vigorous, impasto style.

Unlike the works of the 60's, he now tends to pick not figurative images but abstract elements from daily and Sunday newspaper comics.

As a sign of the shift toward figurative images and politics, the painter Leon Golub is in his first biennial since 1955.

For another, Islamic art delights in figurative images, contradicting the notion that it necessarily precludes them.

The artists book has allowed Herel to linger between the written word and the figurative image for more than three decades.

Aniconism is a general dislike of either all figurative images, or often just religious ones, and has been a thread in many major religions.