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Bruce Adams On Sale

Unbridled (Mrs. Clinton)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Doll Atrocities (Girl Parts and Boy Parts)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of mixed media paintings by American artist Bruce Adams. The frames were also painting by the artist and are meant to compliment the works and concept of the piece. Bruce ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Archival Ink, Oil

Neo Geology
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Matrix #3, How to Draw
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

A Pair of paintings Rituals 1 and Rituals 2
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original mixed media paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams from the artist's technology series. "Sometime around 1981 I was at my mother-in-law’s house r...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Spray Paint

Barbara
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Barbara
H 11.5 in W 11.5 in
Simulate Direct Experience with Freeing Marks
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood

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Justice
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Barnyard Scene, Original Oil Painting
By George William Horlor
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
George William Horlor (British 1819-1899) George William Horlor was born in Bath around 1819. He married Mary Cook on 15 March 1845 and by 1851 was living in Cheltenha...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cookbook Book
Located in New York, NY
Featuring 125 seminal cookbooks from the last 100 years, Cookbook Book is a celebration of the world's most beautiful, influential and informative cookbooks. From the tried-and-tr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books

Materials

Paper

Cookbook Book
Cookbook Book
H 11.38 in W 8.38 in D 2 in
18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" Vases"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
18th century Portuguese "Vases" Measures: 312 cm x 210 cm Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered as if it were a painting ...
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Antique 18th Century Portuguese Baroque Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" Vases"
18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" Vases"
H 82.68 in W 122.84 in D 3.15 in
The Fisherman of Mola di Bari - Puglia, Italy, Large Scale Oil Painting, Framed
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
As a tribute to his Italian roots, Bruno Surdo presents the "Fishermen of Mola di Bari". A hidden gem of a city in the Puglia region of Italy, Mola is home to generations of Surdo's ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century British portrait of Sir Charles Dickens seated in an interior
By Daniel Maclise
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of Sir Charles Dickens. The original painting is in the National Gallery in London and I'm sure this piece would have been painted by a fan of the ...
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1870s Victorian Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Hand Signed Ltd Edition Screen Print "$100 Dollar Bill" by Steven Kaufman
By Steve Kaufman
Located in San Diego, CA
Hand signed oil and color silkscreen on canvas with handpainted embellishments entitled "$100 Dollar Bill" by Steve Kaufman, circa 1990s. The print is in very good vintage condition ...
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Prints

Materials

Canvas

Henry Thomas Schafer Original Oil Painting
By Henry Schafer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Henry Thomas Schafer Original Oil Painting Original oil on masonite. Masonite dimensions 14" wide x 12" high. Frame dimensions 17.5" wide x 16" high. Signed in the lower right cor...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Ernest Walbourn "Evening in Sussex" Original Painting C.1900
By Ernest Walbourn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ernest Walbourn (England, 1871-1927) "Bringing Home the Flock" original painting circa 1900 Evening in Sussex A young woman stands at an open gate as the sheep are brought in for t...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Golf Print, St Andrews Royal and Ancient Golf Club
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
1967 Alcan Golfer of the Year Championship By Arthur Weaver. A colourful golf lithograph signed by the artist, Arthur Weaver, of the 18th green at St Andrews. The picture depicting ...
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Vintage 1960s English Sporting Art Prints

Materials

Paper

Influence of Red (male portrait)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gilbert Lewis (b.1945). Influence of Red (male portrait), ca. 1990s. Oil on masonite panel, 16 x 20 inches. Signed upper right. Excellent condition. Measures 18 x 22 inches in custom...
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
In Art in Flower, Lindsey Taylor introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew Based on Lindsey Taylor's popular Wall Street Journal column, Flo...
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2010s Chinese Books

Materials

Paper

New York Nude, a Photographic Essay by Charles R. Collum
By Charles R. Collum
Located in valatie, NY
New York Nude, a photographic essay by Charles R. Collum. NY: Watson-Guptill publications. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1981. 128 pp. A collection of nude portraits capt...
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20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

18th Century Portuguese " Azulejos " Saint Antony"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
18th Century Portuguese " Saint Antony " Measures: 266 cm x 168 cm Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered as if it were a ...
Category

Antique 18th Century Portuguese Baroque Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" The Virgen"
By Europa Antiques
Located in Madrid, ES
18th century Portuguese " Angels " Measures: 364 cm x 252 cm 439 tiles Important note: This panel is with the tiles restored 18th century. The panel is delivered as if it were...
Category

Antique 18th Century Portuguese Baroque Ceramics

Materials

Ceramic

18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" The Virgen"
18th Century Portuguese "Azulejos" The Virgen"
H 143.31 in W 99.22 in D 3.15 in
Abstract Geometric Cubist Painted Wood Sculpture Head Italian Neo Figurative Art
By Italo Scanga
Located in Surfside, FL
This painted wood assemblage sculpture by Italo Scanga, epitomizes the characteristics of his oeuvre. Polychrome head portrait bust. This was signed on a brass or bronze plaque but t...
Category

1980s Cubist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Oil

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Matrix #1, How to Draw
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Evolution #3
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Found Objects, Graphite, Spray Paint

Evolution # 2
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Found Objects, Graphite

Evolution
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Found Objects, Paper, Spray Paint

Woman with Dog
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood

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A Close Look at Contemporary Art

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Finding the Right figurative-paintings for You

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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