figuration

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His oeuvre spans six decades in which he has repeatedly explored the possibilities and limits of painting as well as the tension between abstraction and figuration.

From Seattle Times

“Thinking about the window paintings and the way in which she’s merging these multiple realms together, there’s always this tension between representation and figuration and abstraction in her work,” Karasoulas said.

From New York Times

Their refusal to be defined by figuration speaks to the contradiction that our bodies are the only things that we have, yet they are not us.

From Los Angeles Times

But he is also uncomfortable with the degree to which Black figuration has become fashionable.

From New York Times

The representational work of his last decade disrupted the linear progress of the modernist canon and ignited the freedom of 1980s painting, which is basic to the ongoing resurgence of figuration.

From New York Times