Fred Sargent
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Gold Leaf
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Dining Room Chairs
Wood
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Paintings
Wood, Paint
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Vintage 1970s American Modern Paintings
Other
1980s Realist Nude Paintings
Oil
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Linen
Vintage 1960s American Modern Drawings
Recent Sales
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Portrait Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Other Art Style Nude Photography
Photogravure
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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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