Figuration

As part of the New York-based avant-garde group of artists, she returned to realism and figuration in reaction to Abstract Expressionism which dominated headlines during her early career,” Farnsworth Director Christopher Brownawell said in a statement.

It’s a thoughtful, generous response, almost like a nest of moss sporing up around a rocky structure to create a new entity which feels like a figuration characteristic of Stratman’s film art.

The days of its members bitterly dividing into aesthetic camps over abstract expressionism versus figuration are long gone, although an intensity of purpose still prevails.

Today, in our era of figuration and socially conscious painting, Stella’s 60-year devotion to abstract art might sound academic or even antediluvian.

Mode of expression and figuration is within the ambit of this atelier’s tradition.

It is so much more easier to convey through figuration, whereas to evoke a feeling without any form is more difficult.

He acquired a taste for parallel motion in fifths, fourths and octaves from medieval music, and an appreciation for figuration and arabesque from the Baroque masters.

Ian Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1995) p. 767 Within this Lacanian emphasis, 'Freud's theories become a place from which to raise questions of interpretation, rhetoric, style, and figuration'.

School song, school hymn, school cry "Home of Our Youth", written by Rupert Baldwin in 1938 is the school song; it is also a figuration of the College, a symbol of brotherhood of the students.

These painting were characterized by large formats, free expressive mark making, figuration, myth and imagination.