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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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7.5 x 6.6 ft - Court of the Red King - Oil on canvas Abstract Expressionist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large, vibrant, colorful and strong abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas that is full of life and vigor.
Painting subject to availability and 1stdibs buyer protected purchase and shipping with returns subject to terms.
The artist, Alexis Portilla, shows that his artistic virtuosity ranges from the strong and bold and big to the fragile, vulnerable small exquisite pieces in beeswax and oil (Pale Fire).
Alexis Portilla obtained his Master's of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts.
“Using simple forms and creating swathes of rich texture, Alexis Portilla builds atmospheric abstract paintings that convey a sense of time having passed. Brushy areas of color suggest the indeterminacy of memory, while bold linear forms speak for the present.” Meredith Mendelsohn, Art News magazine review.
Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literature, the artist finds bold expression in color, lines and shapes that resemble pictographs, and texture.
We showcase this talented mid career artist's sheer virtuosity both in style and use of varied medium which is apparent in his works in which he paints large oil abstracts...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free and Clear - Contemporary Female Pop Portrait - (Yellow + Pink + Black )
By Amy Smith
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Free and Clear" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Stencil, Crayon, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Thetis takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron signed by Ettore Simonetti
By Ettore Simonetti
Located in Pasadena, CA
Ettore Simonetti (1857, Rome - 1909, Rome) was an Italian painter and watercolorist, who specialized in Orientalist works and historical genre scenes.
Ettore Simonetti was an Italian...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1990's Graffiti Artist. Mixed Media Painting Bold Colorful New Wave NYC Panama
By Tabo Toral
Located in Surfside, FL
Blind Heads, mixed media painting
Tabo Toral, Panamanian (1950 - ) Born Boquete, Chiriquí. Panamanian painter.
Studied plastic arts in the United States b...
Category
1990s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sharing Bon-Bons
Located in Missouri, MO
Early 20th Century Oil Painting by Victor Gilbert. Canvas dimensions 14.75 x 18 inches. Framed dimensions 22 x 25 inches.
Born Paris, France 1847; Died 1933
Victor Gilbert's natural ability as an artist was recognized early, but his family lacked the financial resources to send the young man to the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than enrolling in the École, Gilbert was apprenticed to Eugene Adam as an artisan painter and decorator. His only formal education was evening classes with Pierre Levasseur at the École de la ville de Paris.
Perhaps it was his early immersion into la vie quotidienne that formed the basis for his later choices of subject matter for his art, that of the markets and streets of Paris.
Despite his lack of formal training, Gilbert's admissions to the Paris Salons of 1873 and 1874 were very well received by audiences and critics alike; at this time he was supported by the dealer Paul Martin, who was an important proponent of the Impressionist movement.
Gilbert emerged in the early 1880s as the primary Realist painter to record the French marketplace...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Trachili
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
Tolani
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces.
Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance.
My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry.
There is nothing “new...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
GINET LASNIER (1927-2020) FRENCH OIL - COLOURFUL BUSY FIGURE SCENE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed and inscribed verso
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charming Vintage 1970s French Naive Paris Street Scene Folk Art Style Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
in the manner of Michel Delacroix, A charming French Naif cityscape painting depicting a lively Parisian corner with a trolley, a clown with balloon...
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Yacht Life - Framed
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Framed Mixed Media Sketch. White Frame. Glass. A celebration of beach life. Fun.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sought-after contemporar...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
MAURICE MAZEILIE - FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL OCEAN BEACH COASTAL VIEW
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Ocean Beach"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
oil painting on card, unframed
painting: 8 x 10 inches
A delightful original oil painting by the 20th century French Impressionist artist...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Female", Acrylic on Paper
By Artis Lane
Located in Detroit, MI
This acrylic on paper from the seminal artist Artis Lane is one of the many model paintings from her long and illustrious career. The subject is a lar...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Italian Panel with Satyr and Nymphs
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extraordinary Italian gouache and oil on canvas brings two of the most popular characters from Greek mythology vividly the life - the nymph and the satyr. Both creatures are famed for their carefree natures and lascivious temperaments, and tales abound of satyrs pursing nubile nymphs in order to rape or seduce them, usually with little success. One such narrative humorously unfolds in the present piece, which depicts an indignant satyr captured by three nymphs with a golden net.
The relationship between these two mythological creatures was a popular one for artists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, though its origins stretch back to antiquity. Both satyrs and nymphs...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
Earth (Iroquois World Prayer), 2021
Located in San Francisco, CA
“Earth (Iroquois World Prayer), 2021” is a unique acrylic on canvas by David Hollier. Hollier masterfully paints image using the text from Pull up to the Bumper, Art Groupie, Feel Up...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
'Trouville Sur Mer' French Landscape beach scene with figures, sea and beach hut
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Trouville Sur Mer' is a gloriously warm painting of late summer in Trouville, France.
To watch Dyf paint was entrancing. Even as an old man, he would stand rather than sit before the easel, working with extraordinary vigour and intense concentration. His palette was a rainbow of fresh colours and his hand continually darted back and forth from the canvas. At intervals he would step back or consider briefly another picture before returning to the easel, his eye refreshed. Usually he sketched straight onto the canvas, which he set up on his travelling easel...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Symphony”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisite acrylic on board post modern painting by the American artist, Akio Matsuyoski. Signed bottom right. Condition is excellent. Executed ...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
American Impressionist, sketch of The Statue of Liberty from the East River NYC
Located in Woodbury, CT
American Impressionist Off the Statue of Liberty, New York City, August 2010
Hall traveled to NYC in 2010 and painted a number of marine, river, and cityscapes for private clients. ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century oil painting of a horse and buggy with a two figures, in landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted late 19th-century Austro-Hungarian oil on canvas of two figures in a buggy, out for a ride.
Both people are well dressed which makes me think they are of the upper classes and the artist was known to paint scenes of people of wealth in various compositions.
Whilst little is known about the painter the style and composition of this piece are typical of some Central European painters who painted such subjects, always with great skill and detail.
This is a particularly large example of one of these subjects.
The artist has achieved the effect of motion very well.
The painting is framed in a Vintage French frame.
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Optical Unity
By Craig Alan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Craig Alan
Optical Unity
48 x 60 inches
Layered acrylic on canvas
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Currently on display at Art Angels Gallery
Craig Alan
Original Painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Don’t Look at Me, " Oil on Canvas - Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
This work is a playful rendering of a placid homestead scene. The warm and reserved color palette encourages a laid-back atmosphere, which also serves to complement the aloofness o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Vessels, " Acrylic Paint, Resin, Ink and Watercolor on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This lively multimedia display features an enchanting field of color across canvas. The luminous washes of blue amidst loose figurative gestures evoke a buoyant atmosphere, while abs...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Fenceless, " Acrylic Paint, Resin, Ink and Watercolor on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This lively multimedia display features an enchanting field of color across canvas. The title alludes to the boundless character of creative conception, while expressive floral gestu...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Canvas, Resin, Ink
19th Century French Impressionist Period Oil Painting - Portrait of Bearded Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 19th century, indistinctly monogrammed upper left corner.
Title: Portrait of a Bearded Man
Medium: oil painting on canvas laid to board, unframe...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Twelve Steps" - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
According to Thai Buddhist meditation practice, Heaven is believed to be found on the twelfth and highest level.
Artwork Details:
Apichai Piromrak
"T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Wisdom" - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
These symbols of the small curls on the Buddha's head represent the unity of 'pearls of wisdom'. Small things become big, stone becomes mountain, water becomes a river. A little wis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Temple II" - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
Artwork Details:
Apichai Piromrak
"Temple II"
1994
Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Edition 2/92
21 x 25 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Temple 1" - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
Artwork Details:
Apichai Piromrak
"Temple I"
1996
Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Edition 5/20
25 x 21 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Five Precepts" - Signed Lithograph on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
The five basic precepts or codes for Buddhists to follow in daily life are reaffirmed in this artwork.
Artwork Details:
Apichai Piromrak
"Five Precepts"
1994
Signed Limited Editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Figure in Yellow
By Emeka Udemba
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Centering his mixed-media artworks within his identity as a person of color who lives in an evolving “global environment”, Emeka Udemba creates figurative artworks which offer space ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Dice, Gouache Painting by Alexander Calder 1974
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Dice
Year: 1974
Medium: Gouache on Canson Lavis Paper, signed and dated lower right (titled, verso)
Paper Size: 29 x 42 inches
Frame: 37 x 51 inches
...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Study for 'Grandma's Doll Collection'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Inscribed: "My best wishes to/my friend Judy Bedell/sincerely/Norman Rockwell
Included with the painting, the dress that the model wore for this pai...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spectrum
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style.
About the Artist:
In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
The Corset-a ginger girl in corset, made in grey, blue, brown, turquoise color
By Igor Fomin
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The hero at this painting is a human. His eyes are a lenses that artist using. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Tu es la Main qui caresse mes Yeux
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sylvain a well regarded and established artist was born in 1953 in France. He has a representational style tinged with realism combining sensualism, mysticism and a natural harmony of colours.
He established an art school in the South of France which was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1983.
In 1984 Sylvain won the Grand Prix of Societé des Bains de Mer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
58 x 52" Black and white Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large oil on canvas abstract oil painting, exclusively available from us on 1stdibs. This is strictly subject to availability. Ready to hang and with full 1stdibs protectio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
We Love Art [Einstein]
Located in San Francisco, CA
We Love Art [Einstein] is a mixed media edition piece by Israeli artist Dganit Blechner. She expresses a unique perspective on urban life and pop culture thro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
All About Love – Audrey
Located in San Francisco, CA
All About Love – Audrey is a mixed media edition piece by Israeli artist Dganit Blechner. She expresses a unique perspective on urban life and pop culture through her vivid mixed med...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
In Close Pursuit
Located in Missouri, MO
Site Size: 20 x 15 inches
Framed Size: 28.5 x 24 inches
Donald Spaulding's artistic talents were recognized early. Encouraged by his high school teachers to pursue formal art traini...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
'Populus Homage' - "Populus Soup"
By Craig Alan
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original with resin finish from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style.
About the Artist:
In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook artistic...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
A Dark Futurist
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Initialed lower right: M.P.
Signed on the reverse: Maxfield Parish
Initialed and numbered by the artist's son on the reverse: M.P. Jr. / No. 68.
When Maxfield Parrish painted the comical A Dark Futurist in 1923 for Life magazine, he had already established himself as America's leading book and magazine illustrator. His early artwork for children's classics like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days (1900), and Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) popularized his signature atmospheric settings, cobalt blue-and-gold palette, and dreamy figures inhabiting magical worlds. Likewise, his covers for Century, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, and Scribner's Magazine were highly desirous and instantly recognizable, often more stylized than his book imagery; no other journal illustrator could match Parrish's winning combination of precise draftsmanship, strong graphic design, and amusing characters.
According to David Apatoff, Art Critic, The Saturday Evening Post, "Parrish abandoned his customary heavy details and rainbow colors to present a bolder, more high-contrast design silhouetted against a stark white background - a treatment more suitable for a modern magazine cover vying for attention on a crowded newsstand.
A Dark Futurist is silhouetted against a white field with no background or details to prop it up. The composition is carefully centered with only differences in the hands and the artist's necktie to break the symmetry. These are crucial to the success of the design.
Just as important as Parrish's clean, high-contrast style in these pictures is the refreshing humor and sophistication in content, which is usually absent from Parrish's fairytale paintings.
A Dark Futurist shows us a different kind of modernism. Parrish steps out of his timeless fairy tales to tweak one of the most incendiary artistic movements of his day. Futurism, with its militant manifesto and its outspoken artists, was all the rage in Europe. Parrish pokes them, showing a "dark" and anxious futurist with pursed lips and thick glasses, poised to paint but not exactly sure of, or optimistic about, what the 'future' will hold. This suggests that Parrish was alert to, and had opinions about, current events of the day - something one might never guess from his usual subject matter."
In his early Collier's illustrations, Parrish also developed memorable themes that he would return to in his 1920s magazine work. One of his most popular characters was the "seer," or man with keen visual powers, most often depicted as an artist, but also appearing as a tourist, scientist, and philosopher. Parrish's seer was recognizable by particular physical attributes: round glasses, indicating his visual and analytical acuity, and an overcoat and/or hat signifying his role as observer of the outside world.
A Man of Letters, sold last year at Heritage Auctions, was one of the first Life covers Parrish rolled out for Gibson, and he repeated the character of the artist-seer, emphasizing the comic spin, for two later editions: A Dark Futurist (Life, March 1, 1923) captures a Parrish-like artist in foggy round glasses and a long green coat...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Panel
Falling
Located in Santa Monica, CA
a baby falling into an abstract background
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beach Life
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Framed Mixed Media Sketch. A celebration of beach life. Couple kissing. Fun.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sough...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Material Girl
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Original painting on canvas. Humorous play on the material girl.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sought-after con...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Emerging Barely Differentiated Presences
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Monday Morning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Micah Johnson
Monday Morning
47 x 47 inches
Charcoal and gouache on canvas
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Please contact us for additional artwo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Zero Fcks - SOLD - commission available
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. Featuring Homer Simpson. Collage background along sides of canvas as well.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the m...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
The Entertainer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reza begun studying art seriously at age 15 and was studying at the institute of art in Iran where he graduated with highest honors. He also studied privately with one of Persia’s mo...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1958 Broadway Drama, "Summer of the 17th Doll"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Upper Left
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board and has a 13.00" x 16.00" image.
Caricatur...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Le Quais et la Louvre
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard
"Le Quais et la Louvre"
Oil on Canvas
Signed
Canvas Size: 13 x 18 inches
Framed Size: 22.5 x 27.5 inches
Antoine Blanchard
French (1910-1...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
RockStar
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. Featuring Snoopy. Rock n roll theme. Homage to all the great rockers.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
First Class Girl
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. Play off First Class on Plane. Girl featured. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
NELSON DE LA NUEZ ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Child in Hospital, Liberty Magazine Cover, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00
Liberty Magazine Cover, Febuary 28th, 1931
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pulp Nation
By Craig Alan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Craig Alan
Pulp Nation
60 x 48 inches
Acrylic painting on canvas, framed
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Currently on display at Art Angels Gallery
Craig Alan
Original Painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
John Waters
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi
Title: John Waters
Year: 1989
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 48 x 54 inches; 121.9 x 137.2 cm
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Grayskull
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Since childhood Scott Daniel Ellison has had a fascination with th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Tan Suit IV: Abstract Figurative Painting of Man in Beige Suit by William Clutz
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern abstracted figurative painting of a man walking in a beige suit
“Tan Suit IV” painted by William Clutz in 1987
30 x 20 inches in a natural wood floater...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Homage to Germany" Surrealist Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Homage to Germany painting with a portrait of two men. There is a verse written in German on the front of it. There is a glass of beer at the top w...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Still Life with Chess
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Still Life with Chess
Materials : Oil on Canvas
Date : 1960's
Dimensions : 42 1/2 x 31 in.
In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job loading boxcars for Railway Express. During nights, he would go to a coffee house (Lawrence Gallery and Coffee House, at 43rd and Main St., KCMO), to sit and draw before heading home to paint. The gallery owners, Anne and Sidney Lawrence...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas, Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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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