figuration
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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
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
In contrast, Brown tries to straddle two distinct idioms: abstract mark-making and impressionistic figuration.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
She was therefore reduced to the vainest figuration of the miraculous meeting toward which a hundred impossibilities would have to conspire.
From In the Cage by James, Henry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
