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

The layering of topicality, color sensitivity, art-historical ancestors and figuration and abstraction in “40 Acres and a Unicorn” recurs throughout the brief eight-year period being surveyed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

“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

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

The versatility of the man, his genius as composer and pianist, the novelty of his figuration and form dazzled his contemporaries or else blinded them to his true import.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James