figuration

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They brilliantly bridge figuration and abstraction by letting the dressed body tell the story.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

So it’s all of those ideas in one style of figuration.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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

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

Riemann has ideas of his own, both in the phrasing and figuration.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James