figuration

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But I’m more interested in painting that utilizes figuration, where there’s no longer that hierarchy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

The other was the vigorous argument between abstraction and figuration as front runner of the avant-garde, then being hard-fought in the American art world.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

“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

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

The themes of Emanuel Bach, for the most part, seem to be evolved from harmonic progressions and groupings of notes; those of his successors, rather the source whence springs melody and figuration.

From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)