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At a distance quite figurative, they fall apart as you approach into areas of total incoherence.
Highlights made this year include Sheila Pepe's sprightly installation of bright-blue rope, titled "On to the Hot Mess," Deborah Anzinger's not quite figurative painting, and Vanessa Thill's brownish, T-shaped "Petro-Queen II," made using industrial products on paper, which feels like a relic from the future.
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And also figurative sculpture can date quite easily and can become quite kitsch as well, so it's good to avoid that in public sculpture," Deller said.
(40 is likely figurative rather than literal).
(40 is likely figurative rather than literal).
In Quarles' figurative paintings, bodies never quite lay in repose — instead, these jittery figures take on contorted, often eroticized positions that seem to push them to the limits of the frame.
And figurative language is usually quite memorable.
Sasnal has used the grey palette so often favoured by Richter; he, too, paints from photographs; and he flips easily between the abstract and the figurative, even if not with quite the same facility as his master.
And as a figurative artist, he's got quite a bit of the School of London in him - R. B. Kitaj, David Hockney and Paula Rego come to mind - however his second major residence Syros, Greece, is another stylistic influencer.
The figurative paintings of the mid-1970s are quite different again — different in a good way, though the colorful, childlike simplicity of the imagery may come as a bit of a surprise.
Next year, things could be quite different... Calling yourself a "representational" or "figurative" artist right now is rather like identifying yourself as a "Christian" or a "Muslim".
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