figuration

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The other was the vigorous argument between abstraction and figuration as front runner of the avant-garde, then being hard-fought in the American art world.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

His sculptures from this time look like whimsical industrial castoffs or colorful yet mangled theatrical masks, toeing the line between objects and bodies, abstraction and figuration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2023

In contrast, Brown tries to straddle two distinct idioms: abstract mark-making and impressionistic figuration.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

A multidisciplinary artist, he is well known for stylized paintings that mix figuration and abstraction in vivacious, accessible ways and emphasize the joys of Black life.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

She was therefore reduced to the vainest figuration of the miraculous meeting toward which a hundred impossibilities would have to conspire. 

From In the Cage by James, Henry