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• n  representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
• n  decorating with a design

• It is meat-and-potatoes figuration, with no pretensions; if there were any pretensions in this world, where flotillas of loaves sail by in the evening sky like flying saucers and .
• Something about the way they combined simplified figuration with frank tufts of armpit and pubic hair shocked even Paris.
• But he spent the remaining 38 years of his life there, mostly in Toledo, and his high-key palette, flickering brushwork and twisted Mannerist figuration were perfectly suited to .

News & Articles

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• Challenging the Status Quo, SVA Illustration Alumni Draw Inspiration from the Dreamlike Symbolist Tradition of the ...
  Paintings by Buscara, Jean, Harrison, Maku, Twitchell and others are showcased in “The Pond, the Mirror, the Kaleidoscope: Contemporary Figuration Through a Symbolist Lens," August 20 - September 14 (PRWeb June 19, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10839941.htm
  June 19, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Robert Storr in Independent
  Robert Storr, a modern art professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, describes the Leipzig painters as "artists who are going back to a literal, descriptive figuration and giving it an air of anomie."
• Jeff Wall in Financial Times
  The Western Picture,says Wall, "is of course a tableau, that independently beautiful depiction and composition that derives from the institutionalisation of perspective and dramatic figuration at the origins of modern western art, with...