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
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 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
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
Lenz got the music, but it did not please him—it seemed to him a long movement in the nocturne style, a Babel of figuration on a lightly laid foundation.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
