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"figuration" Definitions
  1. FORM, OUTLINE
  2. the act or process of creating or providing a figure
  3. an act or instance of representation in figures and shapes
  4. ornamentation of a musical passage by using decorative and usually repetitive figures
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The art market's pendulum has recently swung from abstraction back to figuration, especially figuration that overtly addresses the politics of representation.
" At the same time she acknowledges, "What I see in the market is a desire for black figuration, blunt and blatant figuration.
They, and Ms. Maiolino too, would develop a hot-colored style known as Nova Figuração ("new figuration"), which rhymed in places with American pop or French narrative figuration.
Their aesthetic approach ranges from graphic figuration to pure abstraction.
I began going back and forth from abstraction to figuration.
This late work also marks her return to erotic figuration.
It features Kiki de Montparnasse fluctuating between figuration and abstraction.
They painted outside, favoring realism and figuration when Abstract Expressionism reigned.
It makes for a more substantial fusion of abstraction and figuration.
Goodman's work has moved between abstraction and figuration for several decades.
Figuration and abstraction are leveled by the plane of the canvas.
"Untitled" (1987) teases the sculptor's late transition into portraiture and abstract figuration.
Wu's vigorous, expressionistic improvisations often elided passages of figuration, especially of landscape.
His turn to figuration would definitively separate him, aesthetically, from his peers.
The exhibition feels to me like a gathering of astute and perceptive practitioners who are working in that very fertile ground of a highly stylized figuration on the verge of abstraction and figuration on the brink of narrative exposition.
In the following decade, however, he returned to figuration largely for political reasons.
"Giacometti's Shadow" is poised directly on the border supposedly separating abstraction from figuration.
And how has their acceptance impacted progressive figuration and art-making in general?
"There's a return to figuration, and the artists are very diverse," she added.
At what point does figuration take over and the sign becomes a mural?
Yet Glynn's bodies are more wretched, featuring staggered flesh, agonized figuration, twisted physiques.
Mr. Fratino's stylized figuration draws from Marsden Hartley, Dana Schutz and Elizabeth Murray.
They elucidate the origins of Dunham's visual vocabulary and his turn toward figuration.
That's in the last room, where I go back to thick paint and figuration.
His own newer, introspective paintings, blending figuration with ethereal elements, are there as well.
Ms. Yamaguchi is an heir of Tamara de Lempicka, epigone of Art Deco figuration.
The automatism of Masson offered Pollock an opportunity to depict the negation of figuration.
With each passing year, the young artist further blurs the boundary between abstraction and figuration.
However, Gallagher's new work, unlike Baltzell's, deliberately tests the supposed line between abstraction and figuration.
FACES OF FEAR Two adjacent booths jolt this somewhat sedate fair with bad-mannered figuration.
The gorgeously busy "Daniel Reading" balances saturated colors, finely sketched figuration, and textured clumps of paint.
Through an alchemic relationship between materials and process, she fused abstraction and figuration to indelible effect.
Like all the works in the show, Aladağ seems to feel no need for individualized figuration.
Carlo Daleo's black-and-white figuration draws on postwar cartoon imagery to inform his drawing practice.
Mr. Lew said that Mr. Toor expanded "the subject matter of this rich tradition," meaning figuration.
I want to believe in ectoplasm, in the figuration of love from the transmission of spirit.
He was working in a way that ignored the distinction between abstraction and figuration, another divide.
Altogether one gets to experience paintings and collages of propulsive color, unconventional figuration, and consistent visual surprise.
Nearby are five busts of women, each demonstrating how the artist explored sculpted figuration with different materials.
Mr. Duwenhögger's figuration shares aspects of John Singer Sargent, Balthus, Paul Cadmus, John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton.
The five extraordinary paintings that comprise Alissa McKendrick's Resentment combine a revitalized figuration with a satiric sensibility.
Newman, who identified himself as an anarchist, made paintings that denied space, figuration, gesture, and painterly incident.
"Wizard"'s straightforward figuration coaxes out the figurative leanings of Aldrich abstractions and calls forth varied interpretations.
The work is all inventive, expressionistic figuration that is approached in a unique fashion by each artist.
A cutesy aesthetic of blobby paint and pleasing colors prevailed, whether in down-tempo abstraction or goofball figuration.
But he rejected their dogmatic divide between abstraction and figuration; his stance is taken by many artists today.
For a long time, his use of figuration and narrative struck many people as hopelessly out of date.
Along the way, it encompasses art history (the shift from figuration to abstraction and back again) and biography.
The exhibition's thesis on the interplay of figuration and abstraction finds four basic expressions among the featured artists.
Over the past decade everyone was focused on abstraction, and now the pendulum is swinging back to figuration.
His paintings, which focus on figuration, draw from popular culture and explore themes of romance, tragedy and celebrity.
The show reveals several ways to think about figuration and how it can be elaborated through formal elements.
She has developed a unique marriage of abstraction and figuration that has been described as geometric figure painting.
Yet his intuitive process and his attraction to figuration imbue his works with a totemic or fetishistic sensibility.
Think, if you will, of all the controversy aroused when Willem de Kooning or Richard Diebenkorn returned to figuration.
The hullabaloo around Guston at that time was his surprising return to figuration, and a cartoonish one at that.
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
The artist belongs to the Narrative Figuration movement, the European counterpart to the Pop movement in the United States.
Ms. Kind was drawn to their sexually confrontational, mongrel figuration, which absorbed aspects of illustration, the comics and Surrealism.
Her corporeal sculptures channeled even bolder statements as they ebbed into increased abstraction and less figuration in the 1990s.
The strongly geometric forms of the early painting evolved into looser, brushier images that teased the idea of figuration.
Solano lost their eyesight in 29, following H.I.V.-related complications, and memory and figuration are central to their practice.
A similar shimmer between figuration and abstraction and making and unmaking is found in the many depictions of rubble.
Wiley is not sitting on the cusp between abstraction and figuration — a commonplace tactic — but rather embracing both possibilities.
Once the '95 exhibition's chronology demonstrated to me, though, how they had evolved from figuration, I was permanently entranced.
Gardner's work approaches figuration, with at least the suggestion of forms amid the chaos of shapes — is that a ribcage?
These helped too: I could at least get started by borrowing the harmony and orchestral figuration that goes with them.
For the second part of the show, opening during Armory Week, the gallery turns to another art historical stalwart: figuration.
But in the early 1940s he shifted from figuration to the swooping, organic forms for which he's now best known.
The distinction between figuration and abstraction is also complicated by the way the fluidity of the mind brings them together conceptually.
In her fiber sculptures, Mrinalini Mukherjee achieved an alchemic relationship between materials and process, fusing abstraction and figuration to indelible effect.
There are a number of artists working the border between abstraction and figuration, with the female body as the ostensible subject.
He is deft enough to make marks that approach abstraction or figuration without quite pushing into the comfort zone of either.
The three large paintings in the exhibition mark Whitten's turn away from the overtly figurative to a form of subliminal figuration.
Its figuration is amateurish; the content doesn't just veer towards, but fully embraces the sentimental, and its symbolic content is relatively cliché.
After eight years of making almost nothing else, they have allowed him to revisit his early forays into figuration with renewed confidence.
For Scully, however, the recent taking up of figuration was motivated, initially at least, entirely by happy changes in his personal life.
CCAC at the time was split between the two great factions of mid-century Bay Area art making: figuration and Abstract Expressionism.
As the years marched on, we see a refinement of style — objects showcase less playful figuration and focus more on modernist forms.
This work makes me want to draw a contrast between figuration and abstraction — because I get a sense of urgency from Golub.
But in fact, the two events complement each other nicely, not least because Bushwick is heavy on abstraction, while Gowanus favors figuration.
Hamilton had the remarkable ability to tread the line between abstraction and figuration, as evidenced in his works where he traced objects.
Immune to trends and fashions, Cosman always remained true to figuration at a time when most prominent artists were experimenting with abstraction.
When Soper speaks of styles "too common to be beautiful," the players saw away amateurishly; mention of "exotic" styles elicits flamboyant figuration.
He does not subscribe to the categories of abstraction and figuration, frequently crossing the border between them, which only separate their potentialities.
Why Paint the Figure with Elisa Jensen (July 5–22) explores the history of figuration and leads to development of personal imagery.
Working exclusively in grayscale and black-and-white, Nevelson's midcareer drawings and prints surpass figuration even as they retain vestiges of the human.
The whiteness of surviving Greek and Roman marbles, their original polychromy lost, became de rigueur for Western three-dimensional figuration in subsequent centuries.
The second difference is the use of large-scale formats by the Abstract Impressionists, while the Non-Figuration canvases remained relatively easel-sized.
Harris layers up fields of fabric, with some areas abraded to reveal previous layers, and others tamped tightly into place under quilted figuration.
Duality reveals itself in the slippages between numerous dialectical manifestations: open/closed, illusion/reality, absence/presence, painting/sculpture, abstraction/figuration, among many others.
Three small works from the "Between the Clock and Bed" series, inspired by Edvard Munch, prefigure Mr. Johns's anxious figuration of the 1980s.
The French-born, New York-based painter has been sharpening her gifts for figuration—and her L.G.B.T. politics—since the late nineteen-eighties.
Rounding out the famous five is Grace Hartigan, whose abstractions frequently integrate figuration and still life, confounding art criticism's norms about stylistic purity.
Painted in bright hues, the maximalist figuration pictures a young girl, gazing up at a pelvic bone that, upon first glance, resembles a uterus.
In Beethoven's Opus 111, Sokolov's interpretive meanderings matched the saturnine magnificence of the score: endless even-toned trills and ethereal figuration cast a spell.
While she steered clear of figuration, other artists in exile have tackled political themes by representing veiled women and religious fervor in their work.
An article on Page 26 about the art form known as figuration misstates the subjects primarily depicted by the Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor.
Hovering between abstraction and figuration, "Untitled (Seated Figures)" (1953) is the first "mosaic" painting to be figurative, marking a decisive shift in Müller's work.
I was especially surprised that much of this was happening not through figuration but abstraction, of which there was quite a bit on view.
It didn't take him long, however, before he questioned the long-held rules of the medium, such as two-dimensionality, figuration, and framing conventions.
Both artists brought to their respective works the hybrid approach of Bay Area figuration that fused the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism with figurative imagery.
The work just barely avoids figuration, somewhat resembling a high heel, a startled cat, a skyscraper scaffolding, an ear, an amoeba, or a strange pigeon.
Within this figuration, Waco becomes passive: a place where things happen, not a city where the conscious decisions of its residents have wide-ranging consequences.
Early in his career, fueled by his association with Martin Kippenberger and other Junge Wilde artists, he employed a sardonic and deliberately ham-fisted figuration.
It has become for me a search for a position between figuration and abstraction but also the attempt to create a kind of new iconography.
" The gallery is sharing a booth with the Thomas Dane Gallery of London and showing works by various artists under the banner of "eccentric figuration.
These developments aligned with postmodern trends in other art forms: the return of ornament in architecture, of figuration in painting, of episodic narrative in fiction.
The other two large canvases fuse together a congregation of irregularly drawn shapes, with a hint of figuration, though they steer clear of semi-abstraction.
As I walked through the galleries, I feared that all levels were being equalized — curatorially and institutionally — under this category of figuration with political content.
Mr. Monory was part of a '21368s movement called Narrative Figuration that struggled to distinguish itself from both American Pop Art and earlier French artists.
It is a jaw-dropping retrospective of Mukherjee's career that investigates her transitions between modern and traditional forms and redefines boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
Even though, unlike Giacometti, Gomes doesn't hint at figuration, her universe conveys a consistent residue of human presence — the creator is felt through her creations.
If the grid is considered one culmination in the history of painting, and the so-called progress from figuration to abstraction, Williams offers another view.
At nearby Mass MoCA, the question is what makes figuration go live, raised by Elizabeth King in work that marries exacting handcraft and digital technology.
Some of the canvases seem to hint at figuration — evoking a mountain or a cat, for instance — but it's rarely ever more than a suggestion.
I think most of us chose personal narrative, figuration, and abstraction over conceptualism as a kind of resistance to what was happening in the mainstream.
Indeed, there is something inescapably affecting about Dalessandro's work, with its essential female figuration and the self-made armor that is balanced, elegant, and paradoxically fragile.
It was the first book to treat Guston's late-1960s apostasy from abstraction to satirical figuration with the depth of research, insight, and seriousness it deserved.
Painting may not, in fact, be dead after all, nor figuration, to judge by the many fine contemporary works included in the museum's expanding permanent collection.
He mixes these improvisational scribbles with catalogues of abstract symbols and clumps of black lines that hover on the edge of figuration without committing to it.
It is a neat syncopation of visual rhythm, offhand figuration, and multi-media blending that delivers a vision that feels unique, challenging, and deeply, authentically Detroit.
Her paintings have often drawn comparison to the supposed timelessness of Old Master portraiture, as well as historical and contemporary traditions — and omissions — of black figuration.
The effect is simple, but it electrifies as the sign of an intelligence that comprehends, and can gainfully subvert, the fictive language of figuration in sculpture.
Like any other socio-cultural dynamic, the fall of figuration and the rise of Suprematism is replete with the stratagems of personal politics and grand ambitions.
Both also borrow extensively from the German Expressionist Max Beckmann: Ms. Culprit uses his expedient black outlines, mildly grotesque figuration and distinctive palette of saturated colors.
As is particularly evident in woven and embroidered textiles, the Andeans' visual language was elaborately encrypted and even the most highly abstracted geometric patterns harbor figuration.
In Zimmerman's figuration, it's the difference between an SOS signal and a lighthouse — not just a signpost of your pain, but a warning to prevent another's suffering.
If abstraction was the wave of the future, as it was called then, it followed that going from abstract art to figuration would be a historical regression.
Inka Essenhigh — to suggest an artist who exemplifies this more open attitude — seems like many of her generation, immune to anxieties related to fusing abstraction with figuration.
Such a configuration in Gilles Deleuze's philosophical aesthetics is considered a hyper-abstraction in that it encompasses both the chaotic non-representational abstract ground and representational figuration.
I was reading an interview where you talk about how you start very abstract and then start to find figuration, but with this series it seems different.
But Piper quickly joined the avant-garde of her time, leaving figuration behind for the conceptualism then being formulated by Sol LeWitt and other (mostly male) artists.
Salman Toor's show in New York and Christina Quarles's in Chicago reveal the enduring — but continually evolving — style of the centuries-old art form known as figuration.
The exhibition starts in the 1960s and focuses on the period when Ms. Chicago moved from abstraction to figuration and developed a visual language of her own.
ART REVIEW The latest in a series initiated in 1998 by two Chelsea art dealers, "Painting: Now and Forever, Part III" examines the medium's turn toward figuration.
"In the age of conceptual art, he was a peripheral figure, by his own admission: A figurative painter when figuration was considered old hat," Ms. Graustark said.
Robert Colescott's "The Three Graces: Art, Sex and Death" (1981) friskily symbolizes the love life of the artist, who had as much as anticipated the new figuration.
Out of a very thick twelve-tone structure"—he points to a dense spiderweb of figuration—"the cello slowly emerges and starts to sing a proper melody.
Over the years, this Swedish artist's grave little paintings have negotiated a Minimalist peace between figuration and abstraction that is increasingly pared down, spellbinding and formally powerful.
He invites the viewer to sort through various languages, from abstraction to figuration, and from written words to sounds — recognizing that none of it fits neatly together.
Drexler foregrounds her compositions with figuration, isolating people within abstracted color fields as if she'd plucked them from their lives and placed them into voids of paint.
The new figuration is thereby performative, rather than prescriptive, and both the absurd and sincere approaches alike are embraced as subject matter by the artists in the exhibition.
If figuration in art served as a guide to forming that narrative, abstract art made the work of divining the intent and ideas behind the work even murkier.
"Big Pink" (2016), which calls to mind The Band's 1968 album Music from Big Pink, is perhaps the most obvious test of the divide between figuration and abstraction.
When he first started showing his work in the early 22014s, Wiley's reversals of classical figuration were an outlier at a time when most painters dealt in abstraction.
These efforts may be the last, ironically cheerful gasp of the postwar period's often lugubrious Existential figuration — at its best in Jean Dubuffet's work, which Mr. Hockney admired.
When she's made a line that suggested figuration, she's intuitively pushed it further, a development that first surfaced in her exhibition last fall at the Marian Goodman gallery.
It's almost like my sense of abstraction had an abstract figuration, I don't mean in the imitation of figure, but in the sense of mountains, backs, shoulders, muscularities.
Exhibitions like "Lincoln Kirstein's Modern," which focuses on the aficionado's taste for figuration and the performing arts, go some way toward correcting the record, but they're not enough.
If you lose yourself in the scattershot figuration it's okay, because you find you are left with chocolate, carnal bodies that are inviting you to come into their house.
These two poles of 20th-century American art — abstraction and figuration — also signify the African-American perspective on the movements, as articulated by these two revered (now deceased) artists.
Like these 20th-century masters, DiBenedetto is exploring a space where figuration and abstraction have collapsed together, where the body and the application of the paint have become inseparable.
Gallagher started out an abstract painter, but after spending some time with Charles Willson Peale's work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he made the switch to figuration.
The five extraordinary paintings that comprise Resentment combine a revitalized figuration with a satiric sensibility McKendrick shares with several women artists who have emerged over the past 20 years.
There are six Pollock drawings, too, and "Number 21972" (19503), one of his late, return-to-figuration paintings in mostly black on white, of an indistinct but hieratic head.
Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005) was a central actor of Narrative Figuration during Paris's years of student revolt, as well as a set designer at Europe's top avant-garde theaters.
His lush, large-scale Cubist paintings; machine-based images; Dada anti-art and magazines; several returns to figuration; and final abstract styles are all present and give no quarter.
The force that drives the engine of Kasey's work is her eschewal of the flat-earth ideology (collaged, cartoony or photo-derived, super-flat figuration) of many of her contemporaries.
Why Paint the Figure with Elisa Jensen (July 5-19) explores the history of figuration in painting, encouraging students to develop personal imagery by working from life, imagination and memory.
There are other binaries that she also bridges, all of them said to be of historical importance: the relationship between abstraction and figuration, and between sincerity and irony, for example.
LAN: Over the years, you've been quietly making images that many critics and historians have said inspired younger artists who are also working with black figuration and representation in art.
Why Paint the Figure with Elisa Jensen (July 5-18) explores the history of figuration in painting, encouraging students to develop personal imagery by working from life, imagination and memory.
The museum pulled records from its own history, like protest letters demanding the inclusion of Black women in its exhibitions, and the representation of Black artists working outside of figuration.
And while Minimalists and Conceptualists had their aesthetic and philosophical reasons for rejecting figuration, Gilbert & George's use of self-portraiture opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art.
It took a long time to unlearn that, and to resurrect for myself other strands of figuration or thinking in narrative that weren't a 19th-century way of doing it.
Hyman sketches an anti-formalist, alternative history of modernism from his perspective as a painter, arguing for the value of modernist figuration and the importance of narrative for painting today.
This may be just me, but both artists called to mind early nineteen-forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging abstraction.
What I take away is that the promotion of revolution and the departure from figuration in art amount to alternative strategies of visual seduction, booby-trapping intellectual programs with gratuitous pleasures.
And in her art—often in the same series—she used figuration and abstraction, prizing neither one as a culminating achievement but rather drawing on both as they suited her needs.
It also reveals his monotypes as early signs of the 20th-century's waves of nonacademic figuration — from the Fauves to German Expressionists to American artists like David Park — and abstraction itself.
The show offers an exciting dialogue with expressive figuration embraced by both artists, relying on tradition, while engaging with the main currents in art, Expressionism, "Colorism," and New Realism in particular.
For example, the Ukrainian-born, Israel-based artist Zoya Cherkassky has developed an unlikely hybrid of Social Realism and early Modernist figuration, spiked with cartooning, manga comics and children's book illustrations.
And it's only the sketchy gray man paddling a canoe across "The Beginning" who, by keeping the painting anchored however tenuously in figuration, gives its psychedelic pointillism the power to shock.
Since she first began exhibiting in 530, she has moved between abstraction and figuration, while always rooting her work in the body and what it feels like to be inside her skin.
She found artists whose figuration had the originality that she sought and over the years represented many of them, including Alison Saar, Robert Colescott, William N. Copley, Gillian Jagger and Mark Greenwold.
When a friend told her that she should be at the New York Studio School — something of a bastion of figuration and pure painting in Lower Manhattan — she applied but was rejected.
The Met Breuer's Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee offered a jaw-dropping retrospective of the artist's career that investigated her transitions between modern and traditional forms, and redefined boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
One of his guides seems to be the elegantly abbreviated, hard-edge figuration devised between the world wars by the Russian-born French graphic genius known as A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968).
Perhaps it was this curse that helped propel her away from figuration to abstraction, moving in the opposite direction from the one Guston took in the last 15 years of his life.
In the resulting paintings, echoing, repeating, and overlapping figures crouch, lean, sway, sit, and generally confound the viewer, mixing figuration and abstraction in ways that make us question what a body is.
A more recent pointillist series, An Epic of Distance and Time, which encompasses more than 60 pieces, dispenses with most figuration, in favor of endless seascapes, waves piling upon fine-particle waves.
The larger work, the eponymous "We Run Things" (2016), is a fascinating combination of odd figuration laid out in a larger scheme, "Guernica"-like, that seems to aim for a narrative payoff.
Cuppetelli's forms float from hanging wires, emerge from walls, and occasionally lounge on shelves — part basket, part specter, part anatomy of an organism — creating an odd sense of tension between anonymity and figuration.
An active take on the exhibition title Peeling off the Grey, Kirk grounds his work in figuration and the individual effects experienced by community members so actively affected by the "greyings" of gentrification.
Curating a group show is itself an abstract exercise in figuration, and with 15 artists curator Jamillah James has done an impressive job of representing artists of varying ages, races, genders, and sexualities.
One commonality is that they are "playing between figuration and abstraction," in the words of Carlyn Thomas, a curatorial assistant who worked on the show — a balance similar to Ms. Thomas's own art.
He never got away from figuration altogether — like an ancient Mediterranean sailor, he hugged the shoreline for fear of the open sea — but he found that repetition created a dependable kind of freedom.
Less purely coincidental may be the crouching figure on a carved-shell Caddoan gorget (or pendant) from Oklahoma, dated around 19603-1350, whose design has some of the taut compression of Mayan figuration.
The painter Nina Chanel Abney, now 2587, has been on a tear since she first unveiled her visceral fusions of abstraction, figuration and politics at the Kravets Wehby Gallery in Chelsea in 29674.
In Wilson's flags, which cannily pick up the numbering system by which different Asafo trade companies identified themselves, colonial encounters are documented, using the same bright figuration in piecework as the original flags.
Having absorbed the emotional intensity radiated by the contorted figures and objects on these canvases, it's startling to encounter Al-Azzawi's workbooks — lusciously sensual and densely colored, with freely expressed and highly engaging figuration.
She often uses the same palette for the head and the ground, turning the painting into an exploration of the mutable relationship of figure and ground, which can be translated into figuration and abstraction.
Throughout Bagge's career, he's stuck to the same visual style, evolving in skill and execution but staying obstinately put in his commitment to a type of figuration that could be charitably characterized as broad.
The silk of the necktie, for instance, looks like ridges of Plasticine, while the skin and hair of Gnoli's models recall the waxy figuration of Carlo Carrà, Giorgio di Chirico and other Italian predecessors.
The writhing shapes in "Udnie (Young American Girl; Dance)," from 1913, spectacularized Cubism as a look—an engine of style—that shrugged off the residual figuration and the analytical rigor of Picasso and Braque.
Using emphatic but controlled paint strokes, dabs, drips, and smears, these images simultaneously recede and approach in terms of abstraction and figuration, which cleverly simulates the equivalent qualities of memory as a sensory experience.
The Frank Stella of modernist Italian figuration, de Chirco presents relentless change across the body of his art — sequences of very varied subjects linked together presumably by some private association that remain enigmatic to outsiders.
The 15 adult artists who are currently a part of LAND's program use the gallery's studio space to produce drawings, paintings, and sculptures that explore through both abstraction and figuration a myriad of cultural concerns.
During his lifetime, Colescott reached the heights of a master painter, blending figuration and abstraction and becoming one of the first prominent artists to embed black bodies and social critique into the art historical canon.
As background, I've found it helpful to peruse Fan Zhong's recent article on the subject, in which she does an excellent job of tracing the ups and downs of figuration over the past few decades.
Around the corner from the entrance, Sam Gilliam's "Bow Form Construction" (1968) signals the most formerly diverse room of the exhibition, with abstraction, figuration, pictograms, and hybridization bouncing off one another in imaginative curatorial adjacencies.
"My stance on it right now is that there are two branches of this moment in figuration for people who can now be author of their own stories — queer people, people of color," she said.
In the mid-21990s Mr. Dias emerged as the leading figure of Nova Figuração (New Figuration), a movement in Brazilian painting that used bold, graphic imagery to contest Brazil's junta, which took power in 23.
Giacometti was obsessed with figuration and the natural world — he spent hours studying birds in the city's Jardin des Plantes, where Henri Rousseau had once found inspiration — but Anthonioz has always been driven by abstraction.
The politically charged figuration of "Cynical Realist" painters such as Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun — which attracted millions from speculative Western collectors in the 1990s and early 2000s — is no longer in fashion.
She swings from a kind of figurative primitivism to abstraction, and then to figuration again when the 1920s seemed to demand a backwards step, and then returns to abstraction once more in her last paintings.
The goldenrod background and life-size figuration of "Down Home Taste" reverberate through Amy Sherald's "High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes" (22001), in which two men in white suits hold pink cotton candy.
That focus is in evidence in New York, though it's been updated to feature the most prominent artists in the mainstream story of the development of modernism, from expressionistic figuration to a kind of culminating abstraction.
This postmortem popularity should be surprising, considering the artist's apocalyptic fall from art world grace in 1970, after scathing universal reactions to his return to figuration in a solo exhibition at Marlboro Gallery in New York.
Despite the success and acceptance into New York's hallowed Abstract Expressionist cabal, Guston transitioned his work to a new kind of figuration, a move that ended friendships and gallery representation, an intentional "death" in his career.
He has written of two possibilities for art—one is to push through into whatever small spaces are still left for avant-garde experiment; another is to pursue the more universal or timeless lure of figuration.
That exhibition signaled the return to figuration, the use of ironic humor and Surrealist fun-weirdness, as seen in Arneson's cocky "Captain Ace" (1978) and Viola Frey's colorfully glazed group of figures at La Maison Rouge.
A 1631 painted screen by Tawaraya Sotatsu, which sets delicate trees and an ox cart against an intensely stylized green hill, will demolish any convictions you might have had about the difference between abstraction and figuration.
His painting sensibilities are harder to define, with bracingly austere abstract works by Mary Corse, Myron Stout and Jo Baer offset at Freeman by the helter-skelter figuration of Jan Müller's "Temptation of Saint Anthony" (1957).
The artist started the drawings in 1971, less than a year after he was "excommunicated," in his words, by the New York art scene for returning to figuration after a long period of making abstract work.
"Kher changes the taxonomy of an object by rendering it abstract, and shifts its figuration and subject matter from rationality towards the realms of signs, symbolism, and conceptual thought," art historian Sandhini Poddar says of Kher's work.
Instead, he approaches trans identity through the aesthetic mode of queer abstraction, a term borrowed from art historian David Getsy's writings that means, on the most basic level, using abstraction rather than figuration to explore LGBTQ experiences.
Inspired by poetry, particularly by their contemporaries of the Beat generation, Gechtoff, Kelly, and their peers viewed painting as the visual component of literature, engaging distant figuration, swirling motifs, and representations of verbal expression in their paintings.
Splitting the difference between these two approaches is a third, employed by Sue Williams, D'metrius John Rice, and Tschabalala Self, in which an even balance is found between figuration and abstraction, neither quite getting the upper hand.
The show's dense installation encourages surprising connections, like that between the horizontal black shapes that dominate Romare Bearden's "Patchwork Quilt," from 1970, and William Baziotes's "Pompeii," from 1955, each with its own ratio of abstraction and figuration.
More open to experimentation (and women) than dealer-run galleries, the "10th Street Scene" accommodated the formation of installation art and happenings, early glimmers of Pop Art and Minimalism, as well as the persistence of painterly figuration.
The elongated figuration and distinct facial stylization of Padamsee's characters bear an uncanny resemblance to a remarkable Chola bronze of the Lord Shiva from the 12th century, two works paired by the curators to highlight their similarities.
These women pushed the boundaries of the movement in ways Willem de Kooning, who continued to play with figuration, and Pollock, who struggled with what to do after his drip paintings until his tragic death in 1956, didn't.
Curator Dieter Roelstraete reads the work as "Realist" and mainly concerned with figuration, making the invisible visible, and a "predeliction for literalism and a resistance to metaphor" — completely missing the nonliteral, metaphorical, and spiritual aspects of the work.
Each concentrates on a specific period and style, from the often homoerotic faux-naïve figuration of his early fame to the taut geometry of the houses, pools and lawns of Los Angeles and the dry but intimate portraits.
Doğu İpek is a much younger artist, whose earlier work could be consistently considered in the tradition of figuration (large architectural drawings), and who only more recently took on the color-field as a method and subject matter.
There is the faux-naïve figuration that consists of overlapping moments or perspectives such as in "Pink Lips and Halo" (2016) which act as odd, discordant melodies that skate on top of an insistent, driving bass of gay sexuality.
The Serpentine exhibition begins with the work Hurtado made in the 1930s, showing how she experimented with form, material, and subject matter, exploring the space between figuration and abstraction, in media that included graphite, watercolor, oil, acrylic, and crayon.
The bulbous bodies of another new painting, Conflict, reminded me of Philip Guston, the beleaguered '60s painter who was blacklisted for jettisoning abstraction in favor of a then-unfashionable figuration, wielding the latter to skewer the loathed Richard Nixon.
Mr. Dorsky's elegiac "Autumn" and the equally meditative, somewhat shorter "The Dreamer" play with dualism — figuration and abstraction, nature and culture, the hidden and the revealed — creating an effect on this viewer that might be termed To the Wonder.
But all artists have made their mark in one sphere or another, whether street art, the fashion world or the gallery scene, starting with Derrick Adams and Austin Lee, both experts of stylized figuration, and the ceramist Ruby Neri.
NEW WORK: ETEL ADNAN This Beirut-born painter's pocket-size landscapes, serenely pieced together in broad strokes of mildly tropical color, don't so much straddle the line between abstraction and figuration as dissolve it with love. Sept. 1-Jan.
Although it was not apparent at the time, Ford, Tchelitchew and View magazine represented an aesthetic position under assault from a materialist perspective that rejected Symbolism, figuration, and Surrealism, in part because they were considered old-fashioned and European.
One year later, the artist seems to resolve the discrepancy between figuration and abstraction with "Broken Forms" (1914), which recalls Cubism in its geometric lines, but with a hazy softness that evokes the musicality of the Blue Rider aesthetic.
In Vuillard's  "Une galerie au Gymnase"  ("A Gallery at the Gymnasium," 1899, distemper on paper), olive green, violet, and maroon are illuminated by bursts of golden yellow; the painting's subject matter is barely discernible, like much of Aldrich's figuration.
Seon's work is grounded in her ethnic identity which is indicated by the facial attributes of her characters, but by using thread as an element of her figuration, she also stretches the parameters of the genre of self-portraiture.
But it's the beautifully rendered sex act in "Zach and Craig" that is most emblematic of the show's spirit, an intimate encounter shared between painter and subjects that extends past the limits of figuration and into the realm of infinite feeling.
In the 1980s, a young painter from Leipzig called Neo Rauch stared hard into the fact that figuration must surely be dead at the roots, only to find, in time, that his talents forbade him to become an abstract painter.
From Hilton Als's intimate curation of Alice Neel's portraits of friends and neighbors from her half-century living in Upper Manhattan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's utterly contemporary, imaginative, haunting conceptual portraits, figuration — old and new — was everywhere and somehow constantly fresh.
Take for example Gauguin's fanciful fetid figuration from 1892, "Manao Tupapau (L'esprit des morts veille)" (Spirit of the Dead Watching), which depicts Teha'amana, his 21919 year-old parentally-approved "wife" perchance exuding signs of having been encountered in flagrante delicto.
The work is composed of vibrant, painted canvases covered in drawings that are reminiscent at once of Keith Haring's animated lines and fragmented forms of tribal figures and symbols — gestures that suggest figuration but remain on the edge of abstraction.
With nearly 130 works, this show demonstrates why Mr. Park, at age 38, decisively moved away from abstraction to figuration, and then stuck with painting people for the rest of his life (somewhat scandalizing the on-trend artists of the day).
As early as the 1950s, when she overlaid a slate gray board with scumbles of white and black (all her paintings are untitled), Ms. Brunschwig forswore the strategies of both figuration and gestural abstraction in favor of speechless evocations of emptiness.
His career launched during a time when African American artists were often infatuated with and obliged to work with figuration, but his abstractions were in good company among the likes of Alma Thomas, Howardena Pindell, Frank Bowling, and Ed Clark.
Sometimes, it is even the subject of the work itself, as in the paintings of Berthe Morisot, in many ways the most radical of the Impressionists, in whose melting brush strokes and increasingly abstracted figuration we can see Modernism coming.
For years now, she has made some of the toughest paintings around, articulating her medium with dissonant techniques, surfaces and colors; freely mixing figuration and abstraction into elaborate narratives of process, art and life while regularly trespassing into three dimensions.
Guston, who began as a muralist, painting for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, became a highly regarded Abstract Expressionist painter before returning to figuration late in his career, in a scabrous, cartoon-influenced style that shocked his contemporaries.
The show included paintings, pencil drawings, and watercolors and what came through all of it was sense of scintillating figuration, that could sweep up anything in its path — elephant dung, glitter, pins, magazine cut-outs, resin — and make it ravishing.
Spanning a period of 50 years, from the artist's early experiments in abstraction to her later figuration, the exhibition comprises 36 works in various media, including ceramics and textiles, and 279 drawings that reveal an output that was way ahead of its time.
The varied surface, which seems to condense in darker shades on the flanking sides of the central blue-white mass, has attributes you would readily associate with snow as it hovers on the porous border between abstraction and figuration, two increasingly meaningless generalities.
The exhibitions — "Salman Toor: How Will I Know" at the Whitney Museum of American Art and "Christina Quarles" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — present two artists around the same age and at similar career stages with strikingly different styles of figuration.
While the artist experimented with figuration before and during her student years at Parsons School of Design in the 1980s, her rendering of this figurative painting during a particularly fraught personal and political moment potentially planted the seed for Wayne's return to representation.
And despite his aesthetic differences with Malevich and Lissitzky, he took both artists along for the ride as teachers at the school, only to watch as more of his students defected from figuration to Malevich's new abstract style, called Suprematism, year-by-year.
When: Through May 24 Where: The New Museum, 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan Jordan Casteel is at the forefront of contemporary figuration, and her show at the New Museum is an unmissable highlight of the spring season in New York City.
The wide, stylized eyes and sumptuous figuration reveal sources like 17th-century Pahari painting from the Punjab Hills, as well as Hindu and Jain temple carvings, while the emerging Cubist composition points to its European influences, like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
A modernist genre painter, a virtuosic colorist, and a realist painter who traffics in otherworldly moments, Resika has integrated so many idioms of abstraction into figuration that he seems to be giving a middle finger to the art world's ever-changing avant-gardes.
This process of Native American figuration over Western infrastructure is reminiscent of ledger art, a unique Plains Indian genre of narrative drawing, in which 19th and early 20th century artists drew battle memories on scrap paper from old railroad ledgers and checkbooks.
This simultaneous exaltation/diminution of the image and its conjoined relationship to text can be viewed in terms of the crisis of figuration that Spero, newly returned from Europe, faced in a postwar American art scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop.
Nihilism in that it is no longer a matter of perceiving heterogeneous figuration, but of scanning a homospatial criss-crossing and oscillating battle scene between interwoven figures, immersed in their ideational ground with which they have merged in a deliberate process of constitutional de-figurization.
These camera-less photographs walk the line between abstraction and figuration, Hovsepian often cutting her filters open with a razor to allow slivers of light through, or fixing developer chemicals unevenly, creating what looks like bladework, and its bloody results, in black-and-white.
If the studio (which was formerly owned by Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo) is the German-born-Los Angeles-based artist's lab—one devoted to a painterly psychedelia that merges abstraction, figuration, and romantic landscape painting—this space mirrors the interior of his mind.
Among the reasons Santarelli takes particular pleasure in living in a house that Canova once occupied is that the sculptor was not only a giant in the history of figuration, but a lion of conservation who helped change the way ancient artifacts were perceived.
What distinguishes Dunham here is not his relationship to figuration or abstraction per se, but rather what has always set him apart: a cartoonish drawing hand which creates forms by turns angular and round in service of a trippy energy that is often violently comedic.
While Doucet's fluid line seamlessly lends itself to picturing gender fluidity, Nichols's narrative uses cartoon figuration — in this case, a shifting, button-eyed rag doll — to represent nonbinary gender identity, revealing how comics can help offer a language of expression outside of societal norms.
These episodes, with their curiously unfinished and sketchy figuration of witches and warlocks—like if Egon Schiele drew an edition of The Dungeon Master's Guide—aren't exactly the highlight of the film, but no worse than the old herky-jerky Marvel cartoons from the 60s.
H: One of the things that occurs to me about his work when you talk about hanging those figures in a non-perspectival amorphous space, is Marc Chagall, because there's a way in which the figuration is angelic; there's something kind of myth making about it.
The Narrative Figuration paintings, hardcore graphics (like Bazooka), the studies for Les Editions Champ Libre or Hara-Kiri (the precursor to Charlie Hebdo), punk band Bérurier Noir's documentary material and knowing nodes at Fabrice Emaer's club Le Palace — it all reeks of mock-subversive doom-and-gloom.
These — as well as a painting by Sylvia Sleigh, "Paul Rosano in Jacobsen Chair" (1971), and one by Grace Graupe-Pillard, "Dillon: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (2016) — seem to be made with real affection for their subjects, the figuration infused with admiration.
I am a scholar of neither historic nor contemporary Indian art, and so I cannot say definitively whether the collective lack of human figuration in this show is indicative of a trend or tradition, or simply a revealing element of the personal taste of these collectors.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I am as guilty as any art writer of relying too often on the phrase, "blurring the lines between abstraction and figuration" in reviewing the work of painters for whom abstraction is only one of the elements in their work.
"It was the first work of art that I really saw, and it changed my life, something like Saul jumping into Paul, as Elaine de Kooning wrote of Kline's own leap from figuration to abstraction," Mr. Sandler recalled in "A Sweeper-Up After Artists," his 2003 memoir.
Mr. Dias's art drew more on the examples of an earlier generation of engaged Brazilian abstract painters in Rio and São Paulo, of the Narrative Figuration movement then favored in left-wing Paris, and of the political and psychedelic inflections of tropicália, Brazil's musical avant-garde.
Rodwittiya's inspiration for these tenacious, talismanic subjects began with her early inquiry into gender politics as an art student in the 1970s when figuration was at the height of being reinvented, and a personal quest about her own identity as a highly independent Indian woman took shape.
There's scrunched-up cheesecloth, muslin, and drawing used to form the figures, but some bodies are rounded and amorphous, while others are blocky compositions of squares of color or rectangles of black that imply a body but leave the figuration as only a suggestion of the complete form.
Selected at random and chosen for their lack of figuration and obvious brushstrokes, the art fair collection featured works by David Smith, Andy Warhol, Leonardo Drew, although the vast majority of the 25 paintings, interestingly, were produced by Chinese artists including Ma Kelu, Zao Wou-Ki, and Xu Zhenbang.
Several of her early works show figuration that teeters on the edge of abstraction ("March on Washington 1964"), while some large paintings demonstrate the brick-like pattern morph into a mosaic ("Cherry Blossom Symphony," 1973), and then there are her many watercolors that give us insight into her process.
Paul Klee's bold but indirect color choices, his distinctively eccentric line and his evocatively spooky mix of suggestive abstraction and dreamy figuration form a uniquely recognizable but hard-to-put-your-finger-on style that would seem easier for younger artists to use as pastiche than to learn from.
As Debra Brehmer chronicled earlier this month in Hyperallergic, Kerry James Marshall stepped away from abstraction and towards figuration as a means of reclamation — he saw it as a way for African American artists to potentially escape the box of the unheard rather than fall deeper in it.
With his prescient belief in the role of dance within the museum, his championing of figuration in the face of prevailing abstraction, and his position at the center of a New York network of queer artists, intimates, and collaborators, the impact of this extraordinary individual remains profoundly resonant today.
On canvas, Mr. Leslie's most famous artistic move was to go against the grain: In the 1960s, when Pop Art, abstraction and Conceptualism had the art world's attention, he committed to his own version of a more traditional figuration and stayed there, despite his original association with Abstract Expressionists.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to "[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction" — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.
The show conveys the strength of Stettheimer's work, at a moment when color and figuration are popular among younger painters, a great many of them women; when a lot of art is moving forward by reconsidering the past; and when gender, which Stettheimer modulated endlessly, is increasingly seen as fluid.
Escaping from the rigid formalism of classical art school, finding a space of freedom in the hard-edge abstraction of 1960s America (Onur also attended graduate school in the US), and working outside the studio, collecting materials from the world; they rejected the analytical figuration prevalent in Turkey at the time.
While these three drawings don't reveal themselves as self-evident variations or progressions (as we find in the work of Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso, moving the same subject from figuration to abstraction), there is a sense of oneness about them, that Murray had an idea, played it out, and moved on.
This includes paint (another tool at her disposal); Color Field painting; the brushstroke, squiggle, and line; Chinese and Japanese art; Indian miniatures; abstraction; figuration; abstract illusionism; inspirational posters; children's book illustrations; greetings cards; thrift store merchandise; wheels from bicycles, go carts, and strollers; buttons; embroidery and appliqué; mythology; essays on other artists.
" After studying classical figurative painting at the New York Academy of Art and the Long Island School of the Arts as a teenager, Garber says she hit a wall creatively: "I wanted to explore wider reaching concepts, and I felt that figuration was too limiting for what I was trying to accomplish.
He was struck by the bumptious new generation of artists in New York—Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Cindy Sherman—and by the late work of Philip Guston, an American Abstract Expressionist who had reverted to figuration with cartoonlike pictures of sheeted Ku Klux Klansmen and cigar-smoking bums.
Today, it gains drama from a perfect storm of relevance, meshing with a general turn among younger painters toward storytelling figuration, serving an aroused interest in formerly scanted artists, and usefully complicating the imbroglios of identity politics with what might be called identity culture—sharing transcendent pleasures from a fated point of view.
And if his close-ups have a parallel in contemporary American Pop Art, or in the French painting of Narrative Figuration, there is no apparent social engagement here, unless you count the alienated downward gaze and the extreme cropping of the images, which turns the amulets of the borghesi into things ornery, oppressive and comic.
For more than 40 years, "Colorful Life," an important painting by Wassily Kandinsky, has hung in Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, a Munich museum where visitors have been able to appreciate the swirl of colors in a work that many experts view as a marker in this renowned Russian artist's development from figuration to abstraction.
In Gechtoff's case, it takes time to see what she is up to, partly because her work does not look like anyone else's, and partly because she walks a wayward line between abstraction and figuration, where some of her forms seem figural, some are emblematic and abstract, and still others remain elusive and even non-decipherable.
More than just creating individual works or even constructing a linear oeuvre, she has, over the years, woven from glass, bronze, paper, glitter, steel, lead, clay and thread a vast, all-encompassing universe of enchantment, religious ecstasy and personal mythology, one that challenges the notion of decorative figuration as somehow less powerful than muscular, largely male abstraction and minimalism.
Having this experience of other people (or of fictional simulacra of people) is an annoyingly persistent habit of actual humans, no matter how many convincing theoretical arguments attempt to bracket and contain the impulse, to carefully unhook it from transcendental ideas, or simply to curse it by one of its many names: realism, humanism, naturalism, figuration.
After the war, under the critical pressures of Social Realism on one side and Surrealism on the other, many young French Catholic painters preferred to use the ungainly term 'Non-Figuration' to describe their esthetic program rather than use terms (such as Cercle et Carré or Abstraction-Création) that could refer directly or indirectly to the "cold" geometries of abstraction.
Even his supposedly best stuff would be torn apart if presented to the poetry practicum she taught every Tuesday, not only on account of its wordy, clichéd, hyperactive figuration but, more fundamentally, because of the soothsaying persona that the singer so readily deployed, a trope that worked fine in a pop song but on paper came off as a shtick.
" Then, in an extended act of figuration worthy of John Donne, Amichai reflects that the pressure of his life has brought his date of birth closer to the date of his death, "as in history books / where the pressure of history has brought / those two numbers together next to the name of a dead king / with only a hyphen between them.
Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through staining; Thompson's humorous oil painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up of many different harlequin features.
The exhibition is centered on large-scale canvasses from Azzam's most recent "Untitled Storeys" series (2015), filled with images the artist sourced from Reuters and other news outlets, which are void of any figuration or presence of human life, depicting instead the stillness, alienation, and haunting sense of absence experienced by the millions of men, women, and children who have fled, to destinations unknown, in search of asylum.
Elsewhere, geometric abstraction meets extreme figuration; a 19673 painting by Peter Halley uses cells and conduits to elucidate networks of power, surveillance and cruelty à la Foucault, while Nayland Blake deploys a marionette and a miniature theater inspired by the writings of the Marquis de Sade (in works from 1991-94 that provide some literary-historical context for the National Endowment for the Arts culture wars of that time).
First coined by Elaine de Kooning and used by Lawrence Alloway in 1958 for an exhibition of the same name featuring Milton Resnick, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Jean-Paul Riopelle (who, born in Québec but living in Paris, straddled the great cultural divide), Abstract Impressionism would infuse Abstract Expressionism with elements of the landscape in an esthetic program quite similar to French Non-Figuration.
It was a diverse scene that held out a hint of utopian promise at a time when Abstract Expressionism was waning and new categories had not yet hardened: It included many more women than the uptown art world; it was not completely white; abstraction and figuration jostled side by side (if not always comfortably), along with genre-bending sculpture; and the gloriously messy birth of modern performance art took place in the midst of it all.
The exhibition, a reshuffling of The Broad's permanent collection, was originally intended, according to an announcement published in August, to present "approaches to figuration and representations of the self": Ranging from artworks that examine the human body, to others that allude to a physical presence outside of the artwork itself, Creature offers an array of lenses through which to view the human experience, some scientifically based and others drawing inspiration from cultural representations of how living things change over time.
Modern Italian art was also the subject of Fausto Melotti at the uptown outpost of Hauser & Wirth, while in Chelsea the gallery offered two large-scale examinations of the work of Philip Guston: the Nixon drawings (Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975) and Philip Guston: Painter, 6003 – 1967, which traced the artist's struggles between pure abstraction and looming figuration, a conflict that led him to abandon painting for two years, working exclusively in charcoal and ink before bursting into his late figurative style and the wildly scabrous Nixon drawings.
What kept Abstract Impressionism and Non-Figuration apart in terms of their relationship to landscape were two non-negligible degrees of separation: first, the Non-Figurative painters' blindness to abstract Surrealism, mostly to the work of Joan Miro and André Masson, along with automatic drawing (this is in my view was their most important shortcoming, one that allowed Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock to develop their own synthesis of Cubist and Surrealist space — if Greenberg had any qualms about French painting, it should have been that one, instead of his uninformed blanket statements).
And then there's Pablo Picasso's "Painter and His Model" (1914), which, as the wall label tells us, was painted "at the height of Cubism's success, [exemplifying] an entirely different style known as classicizing figuration, which Picasso would fully embrace a few years later, at the conclusion of World War I." This "art historical anomaly," as the text calls it, is a monkey wrench in the gears of a well-oiled narrative, a reminder that whatever chapter we think of as closed is perforce open, a recognition of complexity and contradiction that a museum like the Met is uniquely positioned to impart.

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