They’re more interested in the infinite ways paint can be applied to develop suggestive, beguiling, and transcendent compositions. “I would consider myself a figurative painter fundamentally,” artist Louise Giovanelli told me, “but I certainly have a loose idea of figuration-anything that suggests a form, even if this suggestion is faint.”Ī new generation of painters, all 40 years old or younger, are rethinking what we might call, for lack of a better term, abstraction. This principle can go the other way, as well. Even monochrome paintings can conjure familiar settings: A gray canvas might evoke a rock face, while a blue one may suggest the sea. Painters who are primarily concerned with the interactions between color, line, and form also make marks and shapes that may suggest body parts, landscapes, and objects traditionally relegated to still lifes. The divide between abstraction and figuration is a false, but helpful, dichotomy.
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