figuration
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Over the course of the next half-century, she produced more than 5,000 works in crayon, oil and collage: landscapes and masklike images—amalgams of abstraction, figuration, flora and fauna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
They brilliantly bridge figuration and abstraction by letting the dressed body tell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
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
That important early painting — said to have marked the artist’s transition from figuration to abstraction — sold for $30.9 million with fees, with back-and-forth bids by phone.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
The figuration of the main hatch showed a small square, and there was a companion or hatch-cover abaft the mainmast.
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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