Post Abstract Figuration and the Midwest Paint Group The term
figuration is frequently confused with "figure painting” which
depicts human or animal subjects. However, the term, figurative
and figuration here is used as art depicting the shape of
things, objects, places and perceptions. This work is composed
with marks, forms, rhythms, color, tone and structure, the
things traditionally used to create perceptual sensations in
paintings. Post Abstract Figuration is a classification advanced
by Gabriel Laderman to describe painting's representational
revival breaking from Abstract Expressionism (AE). However, not
all Abstract Expressionists worked in purely non-objective
forms. Both movements overlapped in time and were equally
abstract based. In fact, AE painters started out from
representational beginnings. Franz Kline and Willem De Kooning
worked with theories of European Modernist art early on while
Jackson Pollock and Phillip Guston moved back into Abstract
Figurative work later in their careers. In the 60