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Two nonfigurative pieces manage to appear simultaneously fractured and exalted.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

These artists weren’t concerned with either the epic or, although their work was nonfigurative, the abstract in any pointed way, and pitting the Shiraga against masterpieces that supremely embody both feels beyond maladroit: cruel.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

His painstaking canvases built on a tradition of secular spirituality that is a hallmark of 20th century nonfigurative painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2016

There are a lot of opportunities to examine that wallpaper with its repeating pattern – nonfigurative swirls with teethlike serrations suggestive of a dragon – because Mr. Refn is very fond of repeating himself.

From New York Times • May 22, 2013

It is telling that he called his nonfigurative paintings from 1960-1966 "Synthetic Abstractions," alluding to the Cubist approach of building up form.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2012