The research places the formal questions linked with the figurative codes of the discipline in the background, favouring a non-figurative approach (Branzi 2006).
It feels as if Mr. Fischl is on firmer ground in his more recent, less complicated pictures, which feature his friends and family and approach figurative painting in the serious, formal tradition of artists like Philip Pearlstein, Lucian Freud or another East End master, Fairfield Porter.
Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London.
But it is instructive, because every obstacle he has encountered since has been mastered with this same approach: a figurative shrug of the shoulders, a matter-of-fact measurement of the problem and a pragmatic solution, executed with determination.
For a more complex approach to figurative sculpture, you might venture downtown to City Hall Park, where works by six artists are distributed about the grounds in a exhibition called "Statuesque".
Jim Sullivan, born in 1938, started out exhibiting abstract paintings in the early 1970's and went on to explore various approaches to representational, figurative painting.
At a distance quite figurative, they fall apart as you approach into areas of total incoherence.
One approach consists of building figurative sculptures from found materials.
"It seems like a range of approaches to sculpture — some are figurative, some abstract — and there's a range of materials.
We also discuss preliminary approaches for sentiment composition (how smaller units of text combine to express sentiment) and approaches for detecting sentiment in figurative and metaphoric language these are the areas where we expect to see significant work in the near future.
"I approached artists who work primarily in the figurative vein," Ms. Kazanjian said.
