figuration

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“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2024

To his interest in figuration, he adds a rope motif, an idea he has been exploring in works that appeared in group shows like “Shattered Glass” at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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

His oeuvre spans six decades in which he has repeatedly explored the possibilities and limits of painting as well as the tension between abstraction and figuration.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

"The harmless Faun," says Bulwer Lytton, "has been the figuration of the most implacable of fiends."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various