figuration
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Moreover, one reason for all the imagining from without is the paucity of figuration from within Sunni Islam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Joan Vila-Grau’s brilliantly hued stained-glass windows seem suspended between abstraction and figuration, never resolving the tension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
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 absolute originality of Chopin's personality, and that of its expression through novel harmony, chromaticism, figuration justifies the assertion.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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