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
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
Well before the current market craze over Black figuration, Thomas was exploring the Black female figure.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 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
"It really is very sad," Evelyn said, her eyes twinkling with the humour of the idea, "that anyone should think that such figuration could replace sculpture."
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
