Figuration

Quick meaning: Figuration is a noun meaning The act of giving figure or determinate form.

Meaning

The act of giving figure or determinate form.

More Meanings

1. Form, outline or boundaries.
2. Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
3. Mixture of concords and discords.
4. (art) Representation through visual forms.
5. (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.

Example Sentences

Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25.

Figurations of interdependent people make up many webs of interdependence, which are characterized in part by different balances of power of many sorts, such as families, states, towns or simply groups.

[…]a shift to modernist building typologies in the early 1950s led to the abandonment of symmetry, centrality, and figuration. Since the 1980s, big-box typologies, frosted with postmodern architectural veneer, have dominated.

To recapitulate: consider the human form—skin, bone, and flesh. Consider the painting—surface, structure, and pigment. With a little license, the first gives us the ingredients for what might be called human or “figurative” figuration; the second gives us the ingredients for abstract or “nonfigurative” figuration.

Word Forms

• figurations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include efformation, forming, definement, information, formalization, depiction.

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