How to Use figuration in a Sentence

figuration

noun

• For the last decade or so, things have been very focused on younger artists and emerging art and figuration.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• How much did Paul’s own paintings and figuration form some thread that tugged at Freud’s mind?
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• The move over the previous decade from abstraction to figuration among the avant-garde.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• In fact there was no figuration at all—just a gradient that swept between a tropic green and a hospital blue.
  — Daniel Poppick, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• There's a lot of cartoonish figuration that pulls it somewhere else.
  — Alison Medley, Chron, 24 Nov. 2020
• Here Bunnett turned in intricate figurations on flute while most of the rest of the band chanted urgently alongside her.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• His crib sheet has come in for its fair share of tweaking and critiquing down the decades, but that sense of the Cubist function—input figuration, output abstraction—still holds sway.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• But Weiss offered a rather different approach, taking a brisk tempo and running fast figurations along the full stretch of the keyboard.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• Where each of those painters walked right up to the line between figuration and abstraction, often combining the two, Weaver’s own style was highly mannered.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2022
• In her first show with Pace gallery in Manhattan, the Brazilian artist both experiments and returns to figuration.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• It’s not possible because this is a response to thousands years of white figuration, and there will be other movements that derive from that.
  — Stephanie Sporn, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2023
• The series blends the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, and as its name suggests, struggle is a central theme.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• The keyboard writing, with its wide melodic leaps and furious figuration, provides the stiffest of workouts for five fingers.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• While painting, Wong would allow glimmers of a landscape or figuration to emerge—mirages in pigment.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• At times, Chase and Pirler engaged in a friendly duel or competitive dance, jabbing back and forth with bursts of figuration and slivers of noise.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• So there arose a push-pull between abstract forms and figuration (the same thing was happening in Europe) that yielded a rich variety of original work.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2017
• But he felt misunderstood by an art world that was still enamored with figuration.
  — Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Also on view are works by the late Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston, who in his later years, became known for delving into figuration and the grotesque.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• For a while, his work toggled between abstraction and figuration, as if trying to chart a course between them, but the latter eventually won out.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• His brother Arthur, who turned more to narrative figuration, is represented by two mixed media works on boards, both from 1989.
  — Claire Voon, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
• These days, figuration is all but dominant, with new-generation artists like Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald at the fore.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• That’s really hard to pull off with a medium like photography that is grounded in figuration.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• New York made sense as a next step for Bowling, who became increasingly frustrated by London’s art scene and bored with figuration.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Large scale, pastel colored oil paintings, in the German artist’s trademark style that blends abstraction and figuration, are a startling contrast to the heritage building.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Roland Reiss cut a wide swath in his art over his long life, moving between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration, as his interests shifted over a 60-year career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
• Still, in other ways the process had her step slightly outside of her usual vernacular—figuration, namely.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022
• The excessive figuration of Hamelin’s part seems like a perverse joke on the chamber music truism that piano parts are always much more difficult than what their string-playing colleagues deal with.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• But narrative figuration has slow-burned its way back to the center of art discourse maybe because its first, very long dominant turn — centuries, really — left so much unsaid.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• The dominant narrative of modern art has largely focused on stylistic shifts between binary oppositions: from figuration to abstraction and back again.
  — Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Image Image Today, in our era of figuration and socially conscious painting, Stella’s 60-year devotion to abstract art might sound academic or even antediluvian.
  — Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024