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 representational work of his last decade disrupted the linear progress of the modernist canon and ignited the freedom of 1980s painting, which is basic to the ongoing resurgence of figuration.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024