Why bring this up now, on the figurative eve of Passover?
In pieces like "Maureen" and the all-gold "Lying Around," such forms combine to verge on the figurative.
On the figurative side, executives took time during their remarks to defend the power of old-school broadcast television.
African kids like Richard — and many others who are less famous — draw a sharp contrast to the wealthier kids still stuck on the figurative teat.
Growing Islamic conservatism in Pakistani society and the influence of the mullahs, who generally frown on the figurative arts, have over the years put a brake on the development of art in Pakistan.
In this exhibition, however, curator Chris Stephens is trying to persuade visitors to look more kindly on the figurative work, and to see the continuous line of the exhibition's title running through Nicholson's art, encompassing as it did abstracts, reliefs, landscapes and cubist still lifes.
The Muse is strong on the emotional and sensual, less so on the figurative depiction of interior states ("I had to hold in the tsunami of sound I wanted to unleash").
He admits that editors at Spectacle "often don't have access to isolated [audio] tracks," so instead, they rely on the figurative principle of "using every part of the buffalo".
This show concentrates on his figurative period and demonstrates that he was as compelling a painter in a representational mode as in the abstract work to which he later returned.
"One is this religious figurative painting, and on the other is this digital abstraction, but in a way they're both based on very similar rules and principles behind the visual characteristics".
