Figurative art, artwork that is derived from real object sources
Alberti bass, a musical accompaniment figuration, usually in the left hand on a keyboard instrument
Michel Henry was a student of ancient painting and of the great classical painting which preceded the scientistic figuration of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and also of abstract creations such as those of the painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Although his paintings are widely recognised for their distinctive figuration, the themes and ideas behind the paintings remain conceptually abstract.
From June–December 1996 it was exhibited by the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania for their "Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection" exhibition.
Recognized as a significant proponent of abstract figuration in the renewed interest in figuration of the late 1950s and 1960s in such exhibitions as “Recent Drawings, USA”, 1956 and “Recent Paintings USA, the Figure,” 1962 at MOMA, “The Emerging Figure”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 1960 and “The Figure International” American Federation of Arts, 1963.