Noun
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Source: Webster's dictionarySylvester: What about figuration in a more literal sense? Phillip Guston
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als
Paintings are complex puzzles in the twilight world between abstraction and figuration. I use the medium in a simple, unsophisticated way to express what I don't see expressed anywhere else. Stefan Szczesny
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'. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
THE DAILY PIC: At Hauser & Wirth, Guston abstracts once counted as figuration. Source: Internet