Although the painter is now celebrated for her vivid landscapes, her early studies were exclusively figurative. Only after a decade of training in the human form did she turn her attention to the open country.
As used in the text, what does the word "figurative" most nearly mean?
- A
non-literal in meaning
- B
involving statistics
- Ccheck_circle
depicting human or animal figures
- D
imaginary
Explanation
The contrast with "landscapes" and the mention of "the human form" point to art-historical "figurative" — depicting figures — not the rhetorical sense (opposed to "literal").