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

But I’m more interested in painting that utilizes figuration, where there’s no longer that hierarchy.

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

This is the case even in what is called the Sumerian system itself, and when its signs and processes were borrowed by other nations, the tendency to abandon figuration was of course still more marked.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir