figuration

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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

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

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

The figuration in three of the editions is the same, Mikuli separating the voices distinctly.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James