figuration
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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
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
The layering of topicality, color sensitivity, art-historical ancestors and figuration and abstraction in “40 Acres and a Unicorn” recurs throughout the brief eight-year period being surveyed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
Her gestures, like the schematic flowers that let her claim a toehold in figuration, are always distinctly efficient.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
In the second strophe the soprano voice takes the melody, which is supported by rare harmonies and a lovely figuration in the alto.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
