figuration

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So it’s all of those ideas in one style of figuration.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Well before the current market craze over Black figuration, Thomas was exploring the Black female figure.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2024

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

"It really is very sad," Evelyn said, her eyes twinkling with the humour of the idea, "that anyone should think that such figuration could replace sculpture."

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)