figuration

fig·u·ra·tion (f

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1. The act of forming something into a particular shape.

2. A shape, form, or outline.

3. The act of representing with figures.

4. A figurative representation.

5. Music

a. Ornamentation of a passage by embellishing and often repeating figures.

b. The pattern made by such embellishment or repetition.

figuration [ˌfɪgəˈreɪʃən]

1. (Music / Classical Music) Music

a. the employment of characteristic patterns of notes, esp in variations on a theme

b. decoration or florid ornamentation in general

2. (Literature / Rhetoric) the act or an instance of representing figuratively, as by means of allegory or emblem

3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a figurative or emblematic representation

4. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the act of decorating with a design

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Noun	1.	figuration - representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory representation - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent symbolising, symbolizing - the act of representing something with a symbol
	2.	figuration - decorating with a design decoration - the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)

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For us, abstraction and figuration were concepts that were more dialectic than antagonistic.

Luis Felipe Noe: Chaos as structure: by applying unconventional ... by Bianco, Adriana / Americas (English Edition)

Instead of virtuosic figuration, Benjamin's piano in Duet produces bell-like chimes in the slower music and laser-like clarity in the faster writing.

George Benjamin premiere by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

The disjunction between Dunham's sequences of registers, those broad horizontal bands in which his buffoon figuration is found, also owes much to the Exquisite Corpse, the Surrealist pastime par excellence.

Carroll Dunham; Skarstedt gallery by Pincus-Witten, Robert / Artforum International

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