Figuration is back with a vengeance but how deeply rooted is their practice in the realities they portray?
Narrative
Figuration is one of the largest collections in the Fine Art collection of Jean Claude Gandur, art collector and Chairman of the FGA.
But Keniston's argument also turns on the figurative possibilities of the term and, more specifically, on the ways that poets approach the difficult condition of belatedness via
figuration. This makes for poems that, in some fashion, "indicate that they are too late," whether by offering "distorted chronologies" (3), staging impossible or confected scenarios of remembrance, or dwelling on their own need to repeat themselves or on their inability to come to a close.
With "Eccentric
Figuration," "Painting 2.0" deliberately pursues a trajectory in conflict with the historiographical privileging of Minimalism, which has shaped the critical reception of painting in crucial ways.
Keywords: semantic change,
figuration, semantic shifting, American slang
Figuration's cult of mimesis strains to conceal artifice; abstraction lays it bare.
Again, the detail in the
figuration is utterly realistic, while the colors are not so restricted.
Between stanzas, the piano returns to the opening
figuration and then repeats the sequence of sections, ending with a very fast coda.
But somehow, Gavin says, drawing and
figuration in the traditional sense fell out of favour in the mid-20th century.
Both use visual motifs:
figuration through weaving in one case and through cinematography in the other.
Within the exhibition, viewers will witness the progression of Shaikh Rashid's work from landscape to
figuration, from
figuration towards abstraction and finally, to convex art.
As against common language use, with its wealth of cliches and idioms, and the so-called "literary language" characterized by a heightened
figuration and denser rhetoric, Beckett's texts decreate literary works that redefine the act of reading; they constitute events by virtue of linguistic surfaces that work as blanks, writings without style, (2) forever striving towards pure denotation, the perfected present of writing.
We were interested in the informalist experience and in North American "action painting," but we thought we needed to overcome the division between abstraction and
figuration. For us, abstraction and
figuration were concepts that were more dialectic than antagonistic.
Generally speaking, the evolution of this
figuration reflected a changing balance of power due to the relative decline of the old nobility.
The accompanying brochure describes Hurvin's work as "
figuration wavering on the edge of abstraction", and Henriette Grahnert's as "excavating the borderline between abstraction and
figuration", and you can understand this by looking at them together.
