figuration

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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

“Thinking about the window paintings and the way in which she’s merging these multiple realms together, there’s always this tension between representation and figuration and abstraction in her work,” Karasoulas said.

From New York Times

Olabisi was renowned for her powerful style of expressive figurations of Blackness.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, Jones remains out of sync with certain trends — embraced by the market — like the turn to figuration and Black portraiture.

From New York Times

In the century that exalted abstraction as new and radical, Magritte favored a crisp, hyper-lucid brand of figuration that betrayed no trace of his individual brush strokes.

From New York Times