figuration

In this room figuration the teacher is seen as more interactive with the students.

The war, he later said, hastened his turn to figuration.

Abstraction and figuration now need to be seen in relation to each other.

His subsequent commitment to figuration made him something of an outsider.

The subject of his paintings shifted from figuration to landscape.

"I do not bother my thoughts with such stupid figurations."

There was little imagination displayed in the long passages of figuration.

As an artist, he seems to move from abstraction to figuration without missing a beat.

In a similar way, the equestrian portrait can be seen as a figuration of power.

Why didn't he deal with this more intimate aspect of figuration?

There is a figuration behind their acquiring of this snake pearl.

Every note is firmly in place no matter how outre the figuration.

Figuration made its return to the work of the artist, who longed for closer communication with the public.

Actually, figuration has never been more alive, but the means for producing it are overwhelmingly mechanical.

This show demonstrates her continued progress along the fine line between figuration and abstraction.

She studied the details of the man, changing her con- figuration to match.

For another, he maintains humorous if oblique relations with figuration.

The relationship between figuration and abstraction has always been more of a dialectic than a split.

These paintings are of their time in that they show an abstract painter incorporating figuration.

Instead, his taste runs to figuration, bright colors and broad humor.

Quick tuba figuration, for example, can only lead to murkiness.

The tension between figuration and abstraction is a frequent theme in these interviews.

But when the generation they shaped entered the art schools as teachers, figuration was largely banished.

It is very hard now to argue for abstraction's intrinsic superiority to figuration.

Abstraction is in short supply; figuration takes many forms.