figuration
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He dabbled with Fauvism, Austrian Expressionism and Post-Impressionism, but like so many who experiment, these tastes gave way to the hard stuff: Abstract Expressionism and Francis Bacon-inspired figuration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
They brilliantly bridge figuration and abstraction by letting the dressed body tell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
His sculptures from this time look like whimsical industrial castoffs or colorful yet mangled theatrical masks, toeing the line between objects and bodies, abstraction and figuration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
The tension in de Kooning between figuration and abstraction feels brilliantly resolved because he invented his own coherent language of hooked-line contours and “slipping glimpses.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
Over a rolling figuration is a melody first for horn, then oboe, the Meditation motive.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
