Both the original, literal, and the derived figurative sense were used in Latin, but the figurative is older in English.

Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a figurative artist and sculptor from Medellín, Colombia.

While reconstruction both literal and figurative is commencing in some parts of the region, countries like Syria are aflame.

But there is a figurative goldmine safer and potentially at least as lucrative as the real thing that most countries possess, but few choose to exploit fully government procurement.

Several critics detect a crisis in public memorial style from 1945, when the traditional figurative symbolic language, and evocation of nationalist values, came to seem inadequate, especially in relation to genocide, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain.

In 1940, expecting the birth of his son, he found work as a farmhand to support the growing family but by 1941 he returned to Paris to exhibit in the Gallery Braun show 20 Young Painters that ushered into France the non figurative movement.

It became kind of an idea for the notion of the surface of a work, and it was used in a project where we could unravel that surface, and it was a figurative idea that was going to be folded and made into a very, kind of complex space.

Hence they did not seek to penetrate the secrets of nature, but rather described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were commonly used at the time, and which in many instances are in daily use at this day, even by the most eminent men of science.